BEAR SPORTS NEWS SUNDAY EDITION

BearSportsNews

Sunday Edition

02/26/2023

HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks—

Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: 

Wrestlers place high in National Preps and a Bear reacheshighest position:

Basketball is finalist in IAC tournament and heads toMaryland tournament; 

• Bear to play in Capital Classic

Hockey has big quarterfinal MAPHL win and loses gallantlyin semifinal

Alumni

 Bears playing all the next level(s)-pro, college Div. I & III, college club and developmental programs:

BASKETBALL— 1 pro BB player major factor for his Italian team; one Bear is coaching an ACC team; two college hoopsters lead their team in key stats (1 DIV. I and one Div. III); and 2 more playing for their teams.

HOCKEY—2 pros in same competitive league; 2 Div. III college both players getting time on ice as freshmen; 5 are playing in developmental leagues (one committed to Brown); 5 contributing to theirCollege Club teams; one playing for aFounders’ League team AND scores 

Inside the White Rocks

Winter Sports

• Basketball– (18-9) lost IAC tournament championship battle with Bullis, n.b. Bears had the only Potomac Bulldogs’ loss to a DMV team. During his 50^th Varsity game, Tyler Perkins scored his 1,000^th point. Coach Turner’s squad has been invited to theMDPrivate School State Basketball Tournament (TWITTER)

Tyler has been honored with an invitation to the prestigious Capital Classic, the nation’s most legendary high school basketball All-American game (Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 2:00PM at the Events DC Entertainment & Sports Arena) [tickets] 

• Hockey – (11-2-2) Coach Parker’s skaters faced the Potomac Bulldogs for a consecutive game, but as opposed to the IAC C’ship game, the Bears took control and did not let up—a 3-0 shutout. The MAPHL semifinals involved 2 IAC teams and the Rockville Bulldogs prevailed 10-6. The most salient observation is that even though Landon fell behind, the skaters fought every second of the 45 minutes of ice time. These players, especially the 2023 class, should be proud of all they accomplished.  

• Indoor Track schedule shows next meet in April.

• Swimming and Diving season complete

• Wrestling Coach KATZ’s grapplers at 2023 NATIONAL PREPS 

placed 19^th out of a field of 99. St. Mary’s Ryken is the only DMV team above the Bears (Baltimore excepted). Joel Brownplaced thirdby getting… (from a WaPo article headlining the SMR team placement) 

: 

“…on top of St. Mary’s Ryken’s Clayton Gabrielson early in the 144-pound third-place match at the National Preps wrestling championship Saturday, but a takedown from Gabrielson quickly evened the score. 

It was the third time this pair had wrestled in the past three weeks, and Brown was victorious the previous two times. Saturday’s bout at Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro went similarly — Brown came away with a 6-3 decision to place third, the HIGHEST FINISH A LANDON WRESTLER HAS HAD AT THIS MEET in Coach Andy Katz’s 28 years at the helm.

While Brown and Gabrielson have become competitors on the mat, the top senior wrestlers are also close friends. They were roommates when they attended McDonogh School for two years and have been wrestling together since they were little…” 

FROM COACH KATZ–The Bear Wrestling season has come to a close.  It was an amazing season filled with success, as well as, adversity.  This team had an excellent team dynamic, and they supported each other through injuries, sickness, and an extremely difficult schedule to achieve many lofty goals.  They won the IAC handily,placed the highest ever at States (3^rd place), and broke the top 20 at Nationals (19^th out of 128 schools).

This weekend, every wrestler earned at least one victory.  Freshman Joe Papalia earned valuable experience with one victory over the 3^rd place winner in the State of Texas as he is our youngest competitor to qualify.  At 113, James Hanley went 2-2.  He will definitely be in the mix to place next year as a Senior. At 165, Nate Furgeson earned another victory at a National tournament when he beat the 5^th place State place winner in PA. Tiller Smith went 2-2 lost the consolation of 8, 2 rounds from placing.  He beat a wrestler who placed 3^rd in PA States.  David LaPrade went 3-2 and lost in the “blood round”. He made the top 10 but fell short of the podium.  He beat Texas 3^rd in the state, PA 3^rd in State, and avenged a loss to #12 seeded wrestler from Gilman at the state consolation finals. Finally, Joel Brown earned another spot on the podium for his 3^rd National Prep placement.  He went 5-1 and lost in the semi-finals to the #1 seed from Western Reserve in OH.  He lost a tight 3-0 match.  He then wrestled back for 3^rd place.  He beat a wrestler from Texas, Tennessee, a State champ from Virginia, and he wrestled the same wrestler from the MD state finals in both the ¼ finals and for 3^rd place. Congratulations to this team and it coaches on an exciting and memorable season. 

Incredible Season

Bear Tracks

Winter Sports

Basketball 6

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44, L11, Dolomiti Energia Trento, 7^th in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A :10-9. #44 19 GP averaging 30.3 minutes, 13.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg  , 1.7 apg, 0.7 blkspg, 1.4 spg next game 3/5. 

• Div. I Basketball Coach-1

• Christian WebsterL09 VaTech Assistant Coach 16-12  

• College-4

Miles Davis L18 St. Lawrence Saints (18-7); #3 senior; 22 GP, 10.9 mpg, 3.5 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.4apg 

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola Greyhounds (10-19): #24 senior; 5 GP, 3.7 mpg, 0.5 ppg, 0.4 rpg,  

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (10-14): #2 sophomore; 24GP/23GS, 27.1 mpg, 7.8 ppg, 3.5 apg, 3.2 rpg, 1.3 steals per game—leads team in assists, steals, 2^nd points SEASON COMPLETED

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (14-11) #10 sophomore; Kino, Jr.: 25 GS/GP, 34.4 mpg, 16.6 ppg, 2.4 apg, 2.0 rpg leads team in minutes, and points. 

Hockey 14

• Professional Hockey 2

Sam Anas, L11: #7Hershey Bears (31-12-5-1) 2nd in Atlantic Division- Sam is on injured reserve after abdominal surgery

Patrick Giles L*18:  #36 Charlotte Checkers (29-17-3-2) 3^rd Atlantic Division: #36- 51 GP 3 G, 8A; 

• College Hockey 2

Kareem Al-Azem#34 L*22 since 01/02/23 has been playing for Connecticut College Camels (5-19-0)    14 GP 1G 1A 16 shots All games in’23 

Oscar Smink L’21 Amherst College Mammoths #6 (15-5-4 and FIRST in NESCAC) #6: 10 GP, 1 A (against Kareem’s team) 12 shots TEAM playing in conference semi-finals Saturday night 

• Development Hockey 4

Matthew Brille #20 L*20; NAHL Chippewa Steel (Brown’27) team 22-20-1-1: #20 is the Steel Captain, 42 GP 13 G 19 A; 3^rd in points on team 

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks (22-18-2-0); played 38 GP, 8 G 7 A 

JH Lages L*21,#2 Wellington Dukes OJHL: 35-11-3-2; #2   29 GP 2G 8A; previous team EHLNew Jersey 87’s JH  3 GP, 2G. Clinched playoff 

Ethan Goldman L22 (Connecticut College), #13 NCDC Mercer Chiefs 24-18-1-0-3-1: #13- 33 GP 2 A; 

• College Club 5

Alex Norwinski L15 Liberty Club ACHA Div. 2 #27; 26-4-1-1-1:  on Div. 2– 32 GP, 13G, 17 A tied as second in pts on Flames [#27 on Div1- 2 GP] team #1 in SE Region 

Ethan (#23) and Max (#30) Weinstein L20 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey ACHA Div. 3 16-2-2-0-0 #23 18 GP, 2G 6A; #30 10 GP as skater not as a G. 

Ty Morton L’19 Ohio Club ACHA Div. 2 25-3-0-0-0-1: 5GP, 5W 2.80 GA

 Riley Knebel L22, UVa Club hockey ACHA Div, 2    Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey League 3-4-0-1

• Prep School

Jacob Hookman-Vassa L*23 Loomis-Chaffee (12-6-3) senior #18, 16 GP 3g (data not readily available) 

Rugby

TJ Kim USNA 

Swimming

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern, 3-4; recent times 10:16.32 in 1,000 free; 1:56.77 in 200 fly