*BEARS SPORTS NEW SUNDAY EDITION

goldenstateservicesj
Feb 15, 2025
4 min read

02/16/2025

HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks

Hockey beats SSSA and in regular season finale, beats BULLIS in a shootout to retain IAC regular season title
Basketball racks up another IAC win, loses to another and then revenges an earlier loss v. StA
Swim and Dive another report from WMPSSDL
Field athlete secures gold in MoCo privates
Wrestling wins 2^nd at IACs

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Winter sports

9 Bear Alums involved in Pro (leads team in a number of stats) and College Basketball the Pro continues to lead his team; a Senior and a Sophomore instrumental in big wins,
13 Bear Alums in hockey – Pro, College (Div. I & III) and club—one leads his team in points as a 1^st year player—club player named DPOY in ACC hockey
1 Bear Alum scores 1^st EPL U21 goal
2 Bear Alums on Swim and Dive teams
2 Bear alums running for their colleges- no reports from meets
2 Bear Alums on wrestling squads; one out for surgery
Early Lacrosse results 2 started, 9 played, all 4 L24 players impacting their games
- Volunteer to help track these Bears???

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

BASKETBALL – Coach Chris Bohlen’s team had the bad fortune of the recent blizzard causing the Bears to have to play GP (55-69) and then Bullis (49-75) in consecutive games.
ICE HOCKEY –COACH PARKER’s skaters lost to GP in the IAC Semifinal.
WRESTLING – Coach Katz reports “With a 65-12 win over Episcopal on senior night, Landon clinched our 4thconsecutive IAC championship! We are 20-0 in dual meets over 4 straight seasons in IAC competition. We couldn’t have done it without the amazing contributions of our senior class. We finished the season with a final record of 14-3.“

Maryland Independents and Nationals to come

SWIMMING AND DIVING – Coach Ros away at Prep School championships
INDOOR TRACK— season complete
Lax “draft”

BEAR TRAX

TV schedule for a bunch of Bears

BASKETBALL 9

1 Pro; 1 Div. I coach; 7 college(3 Div. I);

PRO

Darion Atkins L11, SIGORTAM.NET ISTANBUL (18-7), #18, 25 gp, 29.5 min/game, 14.8 ppg, 7.4 rpg, 2.7 apg, 2.0 block/game, 0.8 steal/GAME [1^ST IN REBOUNDS and MIN, 2nd IN PPG]

COLLEGE COACH

Christian Webster L09 VaTech Assistant Hokies (11-13)

COLLEGE

Canin Reynolds, L20, Amherst senior, #2, Mammoths (12-11)
Roger Pyfrom, L20, Seton Hall junior, manager, Pirates (6-18)
Kino Lily, Jr. L21, Brownsenior, #10, Bears (11-10), PLAYED #10 played UNFORTUNATELY against my Tigers and for the 2^nd year in a row, Jr. outdueled PU’s guards #10 led the Bears offensively with 17 points on 5-11 shooting from the floor and 3-8 shooting from three-point range all games so far 21 GS, 36.1min/g*, 18.7. ppg*, 2.0 reb, 4.1 apg*, .8 spg– * leads Brown
Mike Gray L22, University of Lynchburg sophomore, #5, Hornets (12-10); PLAYED 21 GP 13 GS, 21.5 min/pg, 11.9 ppg, 2.7 rpg
Tyler Perkins L23, Villanova sophomore #4, Wildcats (13-10), #4 PLAYED 25 GP^*, 3 GS, 24.9 mpg. 6.9 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.0 apg all stats are in the top 5 of Wildcat players

T-Perk scored the GW 3 pointer to beat #9 SJU

Ari Hobson L24, Washington & Lee freshman #13, Generals (6-16); #13, 11 GP, 5.7 min/g, 2.5 pts/g. 1.8 reb/g

HOCKEY 15

PRO

Sam Anas L’11 Minsk Dynamo31-20 ;#7; 51 GP, 15.7 TOI/G, 11 G 23 A, 2 PPG, 1 OTG, 2 GWG +12
Patrick Giles, L*18 Charlotte Checkers ( 25-14-3-2), #36, 33 GP , 5 G, 2 A,

COLLEGE NCAA Div. I and III

Matthew Brille L*20; Brown sophomore #19: Bears recovering from hand surgery
Oscar Smink, L21, Amherst College junior #6, Mammoths (8-11-2) 18 GP, 1 G, 3 A, 14 shots, 38/57 faceoffs
Kareem Alazem, L*21? Connecticut College junior #7, Camels (8-12-1): 13 GP, 2 shots,10 blk
Will Lawrence, L*21? Connecticut College freshman #88, Camels (8-12-1):21 GP, 5 G,7 A, 3PPG, 12 blk LEADS CAMELS IN POINTS
Ethan Goldman L22, Connecticut College sophomore #13, Camels (8-12-1): 1 GP

COLLEGE CLUB

TY MORTON, L19, Ohio (15-0-2-1) , G, 2-0, 0.00 ga
JH Lages L*21, VaTech- info from FB

Riley Knebel L22 UVA
Owen Calderone L 23, LSU
Zaakir Khan L23, GMU
Arthur Smink L23, BC
Graham Haberle, L24 UVA
Alex McMillan, L24 UVA
Quinn Farland, L24, Wake Forest

SOCCER-

Professional Soccer 1
Kristian Fletcher L’23: Nottingham Forest FC (7-4-1-1) #46, 7 GP. 1 G, 99 MIN. goal v. Sutton United—”Fletcher finally managing to beat Kerbey after the on-loan DC United man raced into the box, before firing a low effort into the bottom corner.”

Swimming-2

Ethan Tun L21, Carleton Senior, MIAC Swimming & Diving Championships next week
Olaoluwedji Jones L24 American University freshman – Patriots League Championships 2/19

Cross-Country/Indoor Track-2

Asim Hakim-Florian L23 Colgate; team was at a HUGE meet—could not find Asim
Sam Cohen L24 Tulane; team at University of Wisconsin meet- no results.

Wrestling-3

David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (4-3), sophomore, 2-2 at 197#.
James Hanley, L24, Roger Williams (10-3), freshman, injured now recovering from surgery,

Jonny Gherman, L19, 7^th/8^th grade wrestling coach St. Frances Academy, Roswell, GA

REGULAR SEASON LACROSSE

For many years, the task of following all the alums on BearLaxTrax was a labor of love of John Nichols. His increasing responsibilities of being a grandfather trumps this work. ANYONE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING please, please email me sandy_murdock@yahoo.comm or call 202-262-1052