——BEARS SPORTS NEW SUNDAY EDITION—–

goldenstateservicesj
Feb 8, 2025
4 min read

02/09/2025

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 (a team leader of many #s (MAJOR PROPS about his career), another leads team in mpg/played and a sophomore who has improved all his stats as he has earned starting role
13 Bear Alums in hockey – Pro, College (Div. I & III) and club—one leads his team in points as a 1^st year player
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, 7 played 3 L24 players impacting their games
- Volunteer to help track these Bears???

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

BASKETBALL – Coach Chris Bohlenbeat #5 EHS 63-57 [Landon erases a 19-point deficit, topples Bullis], lost to #14 SSSA 58-73 and earned another convincing IAC victory against StA

AD Brady has shown an exceptional talent in identifying and recruiting COACHES who are TEACHERS. Coach Bohlen is proof positive of this pedagogical ability – using early season losses to teach his players how to win- 3 big recent victories showed it worked,

ICE HOCKEY –COACH PARKER’s skaters beat SSSA 9-0 and then in a key IAC/MAPHL matchup against BULLIS the Bears came back from a deficit, dealt with a physical opponent, scored in the last seconds and saw a freshman put a GWG past the opposing goalie in a shootout win 5-4
WRESTLING – Coach Katz’s grapplers EARNED 2^nd place at the IAC Tournament with 3 Champions
- 106 Freshman ELIJAH ADAMS CHAMPION— ALL-IAC
- 132 Captain Senior THEO SHOCKEY CHAMPION— ALL-IAC
- 215 Captain Senior TILLER SMITH CHAMPION— ALL-IAC
- Seven Bears earned 2^nd place and all but one will be back next year.
- Regular season title on the line on 2/7 in a triangular with EHS.

SWIMMING AND DIVING – Coach Ros reports on the a semi day at WMPSSDL:

INDOOR TRACK— season complete, but one remarkable accomplishment—

CLASS OF 2025 2^ND ROUND OF COLLEGE COMMITMENTS

22 so far from 2025—impressive class

1^ST ROUND COMMITMENTS

PLUS, there is at least one more not on these lists!!!

22 so far from 2025—impressive class

THOSE ARE BEARS!!!

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 (17-6), #18, 23 gp, 29.4 min/game, 14.7 ppg, 5.7 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 (11-1)

Though not getting a lot of PT, Canin after graduation will be returning to Comcast/NBCUniversal as a member of the CORE rotational program

Roger Pyfrom, L20, Seton Hall junior, manager, Pirates (6-18)
Kino Lily, Jr. L21, Brown senior, #10, Bears (10-10), PLAYED #10 played all games so far 20 GS, 36.0 min/g*, 18.8. ppg*, 2.0 reb, 4.1 apg*, .8 spg– * leads Brown
Mike Gray L22, University of Lynchburg sophomore, #5, Hornets (12-10); PLAYED 20 GP 18 GS, 21.1 min/pg, 11.6 ppg, 2.5 rpg
Tyler Perkins L23, Villanova sophomore #4, Wildcats (13-10), #4 PLAYED 23 GP^*, 3 GS, 24.8 mpg. 6.1 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 1.0 apg all stats are in the top 5 of Wildcat players
Ari Hobson L24, Washington & Lee freshman #13, Generals (6-15); #13, 10 GP, 4.7 min/g, 1.7 pts/g. 1.3 reb/g

HOCKEY 15

PRO

Sam Anas L’11 Minsk Dynamo31-20 ;#7; 49 GP, 15.3 TOI/G, 10 G 23 A, 2 PPG, 1 OTG, 2 GWG +12
Patrick Giles, L*18 Charlotte Checkers ( 25-13-3-2), #36, 32 GP , 5 G, 2 A,

COLLEGE NCAA Div. I and III

Matthew Brille L*20; Brown sophomore #19: Bears (4-8-2) recovering from hand surgery
Oscar Smink, L21, Amherst College junior #6, Mammoths (7-7-1) 147GP, 1 G, 3 A, 14 shots, 38/57 faceoffs
Kareem Alazem, L*21? Connecticut College junior #7, Camels (7-12-1): 13 GP, 2 shots,10 blk
Will Lawrence, L*21? Connecticut College freshman #88, Camels (7-12-1):19 GP, 5 G,6 A, 3PPG, 12 blk LEADS CAMELS IN POINTS
Ethan Goldman L22, Connecticut College sophomore #13, Camels (7-12-1): 1 GP

COLLEGE CLUB

TY MORTON, L19, Ohio (15-0-2-1) , G, 2-0, 0.00 ga
JH Lages L*21, VaTech
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, 4 GP. 99 MIN.

Swimming-2

Ethan Tun L21, Carleton Senior, placed 4th Men 400 Yard Freestyle and then won the 200 yard Backstroke
Olaoluwedji Jones L24 American University freshman – Patriots League Championships 2/15

Cross-Country/Indoor Track-2

Asim Hakim-Florian L23 Colgate; 2 different meets, no results
Sam Cohen L24 Tulane; team competing at Harvard and Boston University meets- no results.

Wrestling-3

David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (4-3), sophomore, 2-2 at 197#. he No. 23-ranked Williams College wrestling competing in three dual matches Saturday afternoon NO RESULTS
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