BEARSPORTSNEWS 11.07.2021

Highlights

Inside the White Rocks

Soccer – BEATS StA for IAC Championship TROPHY1

Football – beats Bullis

Cross Country—2^nd in Montgomery Private Schools Championship with a 1^st  place individual finish TROPHY 2

        Water Polo – bye Purple Eagles and then to Eastern’s

Baseball—commit to UVa

Alumni Bears 39 plus 2 coaches

1 Bear pro basketball player-

5 Bear college basketball players – seasons start soon

12 Bear football players had games; 5 played- Bear brother v. Bear brother and younger one wins!!! A NESCAC dominant player

10 Bears playing hockey this season : GWG OT by a Bear in the AHL;

7  Bears had soccer games;  1 Bear won is conference championship and he scored the GWG in the semi’s

1 Bear swimmer

3 Bears competing  in  water polo matches varsity and clubs nationals

Inside the White Rocks

FOOTBALL (5-3) Landon Football 27 Bullis 24–

BEAT StA

SOCCER (15-2-3)

From WaPo—

Landon’s defense makes an early free kick stand up for IAC tournament title

The final minutes of Thursday’s Interstate Athletic Conference boys’ soccer championship game were a frantic mess.

Landon, down a man because of a late red card and clinging to a one-goal lead, was desperately trying to keep St. Albans away from the goal. The Bulldogs, the defending conference champions and this fall’s regular season champs, kept pushing players forward, hoping for an equalizer. In the bleachers, two sets of student sections hovered near the barrier to the field, ready to explode at either result.“Blow the whistle!” a Landon player begged from the bench as the ref ran by. “Blow the whistle!”

When the whistle came and the Bears were officially 1-0 victors, the field became a swarm of players. Most of them flocked to Bears junior forward Kristian Fletcher, the team’s hero on this afternoon in Northwest Washington and for most of the season.

It was Fletcher’s free kick, a low and powerful line drive from about 30 yards, that had given the Bears the lead 12 minutes into the contest. One of the area’s best players this fall, Fletcher notched his 26th goal of the season for Landon (15-2-3).

“Once I see the spot I want, I just don’t change my mind,” Fletcher said of the free kick. “I visualize it, and I get confident. I had no doubt I was going to score it.”

From there, the team buckled in to defend against St. Albans (12-4-5), a team that won an outright title in the last full season of conference play in 2019 and had beaten the Bears just a week before to earn the IAC regular season title.

“We just wanted it more today,” Fletcher said. “We had a grudge from last week, because that one hurt us. It was a game we needed. So today we wanted it even more, and we just worked for it.”WaPo’s sports analysis rarely provides deep insight. No doubt about that Kristian Fletcher should be the DMV’s soccer POY and against StA after converting his free kick,  the talented forward helped the Bear D positioning with them much of the 2^nd half.

A consensus among the Landon fans was that Senior GK  Will Single, and junior D Dylan Thiess were the MVPs of this match. #1 pitched another shutout against the Bulldogs making several amazing saves. The Junior D commanded the box, cleared the ball out of several tense situations and made more BIG MOMENT headers than expected. Just saying….

WATER POLO— next week Gonzaga and then Eastern’s

CROSS COUNTRY @MoCo Private Schools Championships, the Bears placed 2^nd as a team and Asim Hakim-Florian came in 1st.

Baseball– Sam Rosand L’25 RHP/3B/C commits to UVa Baseball

Bear Tracks

Basketball 6

Professional –1

Darion Atkins #44  L11, NINERS Chemnitz (4-3); 9ers beat  MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 76-74; Darion 25.4 min11points, 8 REB, 2 A, 1.0 blocks

        College-5

Tone Cockrell L’17 Keystone College #5 Graduate Student (MBA)

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola  #24, Junior

Justin Patterson L’18 Towson #44, Junior

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths’ website not current

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Freshman #10

• Football 14

Bryce Baylor, L18, RB #21, Dickinson College (3-6) Red Devils 17   v. JHU 37;  #2 played 3 carries for 8 yards

Mac Hollensteiner, L18  OL #77 Georgetown (2-6) Hoyas 20  v. Fordham 41 ; #77 started, played every O snap on Senior Day-

Davis Walker, L19, K #47 Georgetown (2-6) Hoyas 20  v. Fordham 41 ; injured

Terrance Bridgers L19 (RS soph) DL, #93 Delaware State, (4-4) Hornets 14 Morgan State ;20 93 DNP

Joshua Chapman L19 #55 DL Pennsylvania  (3-4)  Quakers 12 v. Cornell  15; #55 no participation stats

Chazz Harley L19 #27 (RS freshman) OLB  Elon(4-4);  Phoenix 0   Villanova 35 ; #27 no participation stats.

BEAR v. BEAR BROTHERS

Jelani Machen L19 #30, CB, Harvard (5-2) Crimson 49  @ Columbia 21;  #30 no participation stats

Jalen Williams L19 (RS soph) DB #35, Boston College (5-4)  EAGLES  17 v. Va. Tech 3 no participation stats

Tommy Kenary,L20  DL #62 Middlebury (3-5) Panthers 28  @  Hamilton 12;  #62  6 SOLO  1 assist; 3 TFLs for -22 yards

Eric Ford,L21 USMAPS (United States Military Academy) —no way to track MAPS

Chantz Harley, L21, DB #30 ,Villanova  (7-2)  Wildcats 35  @  Elon 0 #30 no participation stats.

Greg Johnson,L21 OL #76 Georgetown (2-6) Hoyas 17  v. Fordham 41;

Dameon Ming,L21 RB/LB #26,  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (7-1)  Engineers 22  v. St. Lawrence U 20 ; #26 no participation stats

Eric Speight,L21 DE #92 Pace (2-7) Setters  18  V.  Southern Connecticut State 16; DNP

Coaching 

Hockey 10

• Professional Hockey

Sam Anas, L11, is assigned to St. L. Blues AHL affiliate, Springfield Thunderbirds in 1^st place 6-0-2-0); #7 Anas’ 14 SOG. 1G 3A; VIDEO of 1st Goal Scores OT Win for T-Birds https://twitter.com/i/status/1456809384877690882

College

Patrick Giles L*18  #24 Boston College – Assistant captain (5-3-1) Eagles 4  v. Merrimack 1 ; #24 started 1 Goals (season 5  G 1A)

College Club

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University  ACHA Div. 1 (8-2)#27;  #3 in ACHA — bye week

Ethan and Max Weinstein L20 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey #5 in ACHA Div. III (3-0-0) listed on the D game roster

USPHL

Ty  Morton #20 L’19  Hershey Cubs (4-10-0-0-0-1) #20; 7 games 1-5-0

NAHL

Matthew Brille#20 L*20 Chippewa Steel(Brown’22) (10-9-0-1, 4^th place) 16 GP, 3G 3A 1GWG

Post Graduate

Kareem Al-Azem L*22 (RPI) Kimball Union Academy  

Jacob Hookman-Vassa L*22 Loomis-Chaffee

JH Lages L*21 Westminster School 

Will Lawrence L*22 Mount St. Charles Academy

Rowing 1

Ari Chadda L18 , Dartmouth College, coxswain 10/24 head of the Charles

Soccer 7

Nico Kenary L18, #27 Amherst College, (12-2-2) NCAAs? next

Noah Hannam L18, #2 Middlebury College  (10-4-3) Panthers 0 @ #7 Tufts 1 ; #2 11min. 1 Shot

Drew Parker L18 , Kenyon College (international semester)

Burke McLaughlin L18, #5, Denison University (12-4-2), Big Red 1  @ OWU,  #5 winning goal 55 minutes 3 shots 1 SOG ;

Win the 2021 NCAC Men’s Soccer Tournament  Big Red 1 @ Kenyon 0 #5 started, 52 minutes

Alex Riel L18, #4,  Allegheny College (6-11); season ended

Marc Schermer, L 20, #14, Hamilton (7-7-1); season ended 

Hayden Evans, L?, GK#31;University of Michigan(7-6-3) bye week

Issa Mudashiru, L21 #33 Princeton University (10-5)  bye week

SWIMMING

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern, Wildcats

Water Polo 

Ford Bruggen L20, #12  George Washington University (8-11) Colonials 11 Mt. St. Mary’s 10; Colonials 9 @ Navy12  O/T

Logan Kalish L21, #16 George Washington University   (8-11) Colonials 11 Mt. St. Mary’s 10; Colonials 9 @ Navy12  O/T 1 A.

Tyler Sweeney L18,  UVA water polo club  team will be seeded #11-13 at the Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) in Huntsville, Ala 11/11-12