BEARSPORTSNEWS 02.27.2022

SUNDAY EDITION

Highlights

Sorry to have a one week gap; this Bear hibernated in FL

Inside the White Rocks

Wrestling sends 5 to Prep Nationals and Joel Brown seeded 5^th places 3^rd!!

Basketball season complete

Hockey loses to StA in IAC finals and then beats them in MAPHL quarterfinals

Squash

Indoor Track

Alumni Bears 22 on college rosters

1 Bear pro basketball player leading the team in  stats

7 Bear college basketball players –2 freshmen ripping it up; Kino Lilly Jr. leads Ivy scoring for 2026 class . AnotherBear is on a hoops team winning record number of games Graduate students helping programs while they get another year of education.

11 Bears playing hockey this season : 1 pro scoring; 1 Div. I assistant captain; Tier II Junior league; 3 playing club both teams headed to ACHA championships; 1 development league; 4 PGs

1 Rugger playing for big time club

1 Bear swimmer

1 wrestler hitting the mats for a school of Bears

Inside the White Rocks

BEARS RULING THE MATS

Winter Sports

BASKETBALL—11-9 After a promising schedule outside of the IAC (9-2) and with 8 cancellations, the Bears swept StA (2x) in IAC competition.

HOCKEY— 14-3-1 (does not include 2Ls in preseason scrimmages).The team lost after 9 shoot out O/T to StA (1-2) but reversed that result when Coach Sears’ team beat the DC Bulldogs 5-4. Onto DeMatha 3/3 at Laurel Garden Ice Arena @ 5 pm

INDOOR TRACK — Coach Hunt

SWIMMING Coach Ros at Easterns

SQUASH Coach Miller’s

WRESTLING Coach Katz

On February 18 & 19, 2022

Maryland Independent Varsity and Junior Varsity Championships

It was a momentous day for Landon wrestling history.  We tied our highest team placement by earning 6^th overall in a field of 29 teams.  We had 8 place winners which beats 2001 with 6 and 2018 with 7.  We had 5 National qualifiers. We scored 4.5 points behind powerhouse McDonogh. 

We had 2 STATE CHAMPIONS… Joel Brown and Will Levy. Our first and only state champ was Lorenzo Lopez ’20.  We had our first time ever Outstanding Wrestler of the State Tournament in Will Levy. We had 10 wrestlers out of 14 make it to the second day. The team went undefeated in duals meets 9-0 for the first time ever.  Once again, this was a team effort.  Congrats to our two Seniors who both were excellent leaders and contributors to this team: Daniel Robinson and Daniel Samuel.

At the JV State Championships, we had two place winners.  Hugh Neill (138) wrestled well.  He lost in the first round to the eventual champion, but then rattled off 4 straight wins for 3^rd place.  At 220, George Allen won an amazing overtime victory in the quarter finals.  He eventually lost in the finals to earn 2^nd place.  Go Young Bears!

Seamus McNamara (113) wrestled his best of the year.  He hit the #2 seed in the first round and then almost beat a wrestler from Good Counsel that he had been pinned by twice this season. Daniel Samuel (120) hit the #5 seed and then lost a close match in the wrestle backs.  Nico Biabani (145) stepped up to fill in at 145.  He drew the #3 seed first round and was unfortunately injured in his consolation match.

Senior Captain and #8 seed Daniel Robinson started on fire.  He earned a pin in the first round and then lost two tough matches in a row to be eliminated. 

Theo Shockey (106) made it to the second day after hitting the #1 seed and eventual champion in the first round and lost a tough match in the blood round.  Talan Smith (126) pinned his first opponent and then ran into the #2 seed.  He also lost in the blood round.

Anthony Savoy (170) was unseeded.  He knocked off the 8^th seed in the first round and then wrestled hard to maintain that place for 8^th.  David Laprade (195) pinned his first opponent and then gave the #2 a battle.  He was controlling and unfortunately got thrown to his back and pinned. David wrestled on to hold his #7 seed.  Ty Reyes (285) seeded #5 lost to the 4th seed in the quarters.  He wrestled back for a 7^th place win a couple of exciting wins. 

Will Abramson (182) finally got back in the line up after an injury kept him out for over 3 weeks.  He had a tough loss in the semi-finals. He bounced right back and placed 4^th for a National qualifying spot.  Tiller Smith (220) was amazing as a freshman in the upper weights. We bumped both David Laprade and Tiller up a weight to fill the weight classes. Tiller did not disappoint. He earned 4^th place after being seeded 5^th. 

Joel Brown (132) had an amazing day. In the semi-finals, he was down by one point with about 15 seconds left. He threw his McDonogh opponent to his back and pinned him at the buzzer for a trip to the finals. In the State finals, he upset the #1 seed with a take down in overtime for the sudden victory and became Landon’s only 2^nd State Champion ever.  Joel’s win in the final was his 100^th career victory.  Way to go Joel!   At 138, the drama continued as #5 seed Will Levy proved his toughness in many ways.  He was beating the #1 seed and first ranked wrestler in the State in the semi-finals with a couple of amazing take downs.  With about 30 seconds left in the 3^rd period, his frustrated opponent picked him up and illegally slammed Will directly on his neck.  Will was winning the match but could not continue. He won because it was an illegal move.  With clearance from the trainers, Will persevered into the finals.  He amazingly knocked off the #3 seed with a pin in the second period.  The crowd and coaches were impressed with his effort and he was voted Outstanding Wrestler for the tournament, and became Landon’s third STATE CHAMPION.  Will almost cracked a smile up on top of the podium. It was an amazing weekend for Landon wrestling.  We will return all but 2 wrestlers for next year’s squad. The future looks bright

At Prep Nationals–

Seeded Bears at National Preps

132 – 5^th  Joel Brown, Landon won 1^st 4 rounds by decisions, lost next round and then beat Gonzaga wrestler to make it to semi’s for 3^rd place which he won 2-1

138 – 7^th  Will Levy, Landon INJURED

160 – Nate Furgeson, Landon 2-2 INCLUDING W AND L in consolation

195- Dave Laprade Landon 0-2

220 – Tiller Smith, Landon 0-2

285 – Ty Reyes, Landon 0-2

[apologies if any of this is in error; not 100% sure that I was reading the Flo Wrestling reports correctly.]

Bear Track

Basketball 6

Professional –1

Darion Atkins #44  L11, NINERS Chemnitz 2nd place after (15-6); Darion 27.43 min( #2 on team);12.6 points(#2), 6.8 REB (#1), 2.1 A, 0.7 blocks 0.6 STL.

College-7

Tone Cockrell L’17 Keystone College Giants, #5 Graduate Student (MBA); Giants (9-16) #5 played big role in February’s 4 games averaging high 30s in minutes, 11 ppg. over 5 reb. His career scoring average was 20 ppg and an MBA

Miles Davis L18 St. Lawrence Saints 16-10; #3 Junior; the team won 3 to reach the Liberty Conference tournament, but they lost.  Miles was in for 12 min, scored 6 pts, 1 reb., 1 STL.

Donnell Freyer, Jr. L’17  Claflin University Panthers, #12Graduate Student; 6-20 team; for the season #12 averaged 24 min, 12.7 pts, 2 reb, 1 asst. 1 stl on the way to an MBA degree

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola Greyhounds  (14-15) #24, Junior;

Justin Patterson L’18 Towson Tigers (22-7) #44, Junior; Towson has earned its best start in its Division I history since the Tigers came to DI in the 1979-80 season. #44 played vs. JMU a team which they play again tonight.

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (13-6) #2  DNP last 5 games (injured?) 4^th  leading scorer2nd in As.

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears, Freshman #10; Bears (12-15). Tied for Brown leading minutes, #2 in scoring, 1^st in 3 pt. %,2^nd in assists, #1 in steals; IVY top ten in all of these categories and #10 is the youngest in every one of these categories

Hockey 11

Professional Hockey

Sam Anas, L11, is assigned to St. L. Blues AHL affiliate, Springfield Thunderbirds 1^st  place  (27-15-5-3); #7 48 GP, 12 G 28 A, 2 GWG 4 PPG 40 pts = AHL #17T

College Hockey

Patrick Giles L*18 Boston College Hockey – Assistant captain #24(11-16-5) started 31 games, 12 G 5 A

College Club

BEARS HEADING TO NATIONALS

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University  ACHA Div. 1, will take the top seed into the eight-team National Championships, to be played March 9-13 in Kalamazoo, Mich., for the second time in four years. (20-9-0-0-1); 18 games played 2A

Ethan (#23) and Max Weinstein(#26) L20 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey #10 in ACHA Div. III (16-0-1) ; #23 has played in 15 games and is credited with 2 G 6 A and 2 PIMs. #26 has played in  5 games as a skater with an A. On 3/10 #10 Big Green D will play # 7 University of New Mexico

USPHL

Ty  Morton #20 L’19  Hershey Cubs (11-28-0-0-0-2) 3^RD place in division headed to playoffs; #20; 11 games 3-8-0

NAHL

Matthew Brille #20 L*20 ;Chippewa Steel (Brown’22) (19-23-0-2,7^th  place) 40 GP, 5G, 11A 1GWG

PG years

Kareem Al-Azem L*22 (RPI) Kimball Union Academy Wildcats  (26-3-1) Team ranked #2 in NE preps after 12 game win streak; Kareem 30 GP 5G 20 A;  2^nd star in win

Jacob Hookman-Vassa L*22 Loomis-Chaffee Pelicans (13-10) 23 GP 2G 3 A

JH Lages L*21 Westminster School  Martlets (13-8-2)  24 GP 2G 14A

Will Lawrence L*22Mount St. Charles Academy 18 AAU –#6  has 40 GP 23 G 18 A

Rugby

Aiden Howe L16  St. Mary’s Gaels Scrum-Half 2 up 33-5 Life West

Wrestling

Jonny Gherman L19 Ursinus Bears wrestling team 1-2 and 3 round robins; Junior—not much information on the UC site

SWIMMING

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern, Wildcats (1-2)