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BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 01/22/2023

BearSportsNews

Sunday Edition

01/22/2023

Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes

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

HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks—

Bear Grapplers finish IAC dual season undefeated. Hockey notches a MAPHL win and heads into 3 tough MAPHL games; Hoops losses to WaPo #3 but bullies the Bulldogs of DC; track runners in big Pennsylvania meet

Alumni: 

Navy Honors one of its players with the prized Looney Award, reminding that Matt Morrison L’09 received the same honor on the way to being the 1st of 3 Bears USNA Captains!!!

John Geppert L’19 earned IL preseason IL AA HM

BASKETBALL— 1 pro BB player continues to contribute to his Italian team; one Bear is coaching an ACC team; one Div.I player earned Ivy Player of the Week; 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 leagueand Sam Anas is on the IR; 2 Div. III college both players getting time on ice as freshmen- one scored on a PP with his buddy in the box; 5 are playing in developmental leagues (one committed to Brown); 5 contributing to their College Club teams; one playing for a Founders’ League team

Inside the White Rocks

Winter Sports

  • Basketball– (11-7) Coach Turner’s team lost to WAPO #3 15-1 Bullis 48-69, and then beat traditional rival StA 95-73 

  • Hockey – (7-1) Coach Parker’s WaPo #3 team beat MAPHL competitor Archbishop Spalding 7-2 in preparation for this week’s matches against DeMatha, StA and WaPo #2 Gonzaga.  

  • Indoor TrackMercersburg Mid-Winter Madnessabout 20 teams in the meet. Mercersburg is the alma mater of Sam Lehrman and Coach Addison Hunt. 

  • Swimming and Diving beat Our Lady of Good Counsel High School 119-59 

  • Wrestling from Coach Reed We are halfway there in earning the IAC title….. tonight, we wrestled our final two dual meets against IAC opponents: St. Albans and Episcopal.  We are officially 5-0 in the league and have clinched at least part of the IAC title.  Thank you to the alumni and fans that showed up tonight.  It was pretty crowded in the Perkins gym and it definitely got real loud.  In our first match against Gonzaga, we started off pretty slow.  We went down 21-6 in the first 5 matches.  Sophomore stud Talan Smith entered the mat for the first time this season and pinned his opponent in 1:33.  At 165, Nate Furgeson got the ball rolling with a 10-4 victory.  The then rattled off 6 straight pins to take the lead for good: DP Pope (175), Anthony Savoy (190), Tiller Smith (215), Ty Reyes (285), Joe Papalia (106), and Makana Neverosky (113).  

Final Score: Landon 45 Gonzaga 30  

In round 2, we wrestled St. Albans.  They weighed in 10 wrestlers.  We won 9 of the 10 in dominating style.  Freshman Ryan Zand started off the streak at 138 with a pin 1:31. The Bears rattled off 6 pins and 5 forfeits.  Talan Smith, Conrad Brady, Hugh Neill, DP Pope, Ty Reyes, Joe Papalia were the pinners with Talan and Joe being the fastest pins: 20 and 27 seconds respectively.  Freshman Louis McNamara ended the match at 132 with another pin.  

 Final Score: Landon 78 St Albans 6

In Round 3, we wrestled Episcopal.  They filled 8 weight classes.  The heart of their line-up is in the upper weights where they had some experienced wrestlers.  Unfortunately for them, they were not tough enough.  We won all 8 matches wrestled.  Ryan Zand, Conrad Brady, Hugh Neill, DP Pope, David LaPrade, Tiller Smith, Ty Reyes all pinned their opponents.  Nate Furgeson won a tough match 8-1.  The Team earned a part of the IAC title, along with their second shut out of the season.  

Final Score: Landon 78 Episcopal 0

  • uncharacteristically no news and Landon.net lists no schedule or roster??? 

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Bear Tracks

Spring Sports

Winter Sports

Basketball 6

  • Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44, L11, Dolomiti Energia Trento, 7th in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A :8-7. #44 14 GP averaging 29.8minutes, 13.7 ppg, 7.7 rpg  , 2.3 apg, 0.4 bspg, 1.12spg 

  • Div. I Basketball Coach-1

Christian Webster L09 VaTech Assistant Coach 11-7 

  • College-4

Miles Davis L18 St. Lawrence Saints (9-5); #3 senior; 12 GP, 14.4 mpg, 2.8 ppg, 0.8 rpg, 2.8 apg 

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola Greyhounds (7-14): #24 senior; 5 GP, 4.0 mpg, 0.6 ppg, 0.8 rpg, 0. apg 

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (6-11): #2 sophomore; 14 GP/GS, 27.3 mpg, 8.5 ppg, 3.6 apg, 3.3 rpg, 1.2 steals per game—leads team in minutes, points, assists, steals

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (10-9) #10 sophomore; Kino, Jr.: 18 GS/GP, 34.3 mpg, 16.2 ppg, 1.6 apg, 2.2 rpg leads team in minutes, and points. Ivy League Player of the Week–

Hockey 14

  • Professional Hockey 2

Sam Anas, L11: #7Hershey Bears (25-8-4-1) 1st in Atlantic Division- Sam is on injured reserve after abdominal surgery #7 numbers before injury 29 GP 7G ,8 A, 2 GWG, 1 SOG 

Patrick Giles L*18:  #36 Charlotte Checkers (19-14-2–1) 14th Atlantic Division: #36- 37 GP 3 G, 4A; 

  • College Hockey 2

Kareem Al-Azem#34 L*22 since 01/02/23 has been playing for Connecticut College Camels (2-13-0)   all ‘23 5GP 8 shots 1st goal on PP with Oscar in the sin bin v. Amherst,formerly with NAHL Maryland Black Bears25-7-3-0, 1st in division; #34 7 GP 2A 

Oscar Smink L’21 Amherst College Mammoths (10-3-2 and 1ST IN NESCAC) #6: 6 GP, 8 shots against the Camels #6 had 2 blocked shots and ¾ in his first F/O assignment.  

  • Development Hockey 4

Matthew Brille #20 L*20; NAHL Chippewa Steel (Brown’27) team 17-15-1-1: #20 is the Steel Captain, is Steel’s 3rd in points with 31 GP 12 G 15 A;  

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks (145-17-2-0); played 30 GP, 4 G 5 A 

JH Lages L*21,#2 Wellington Dukes OJHL: 27-9-2-2; #2   24 GP 1G 7A; previous team EHLNew Jersey 87’s JH  3 GP, 2G. 

Ethan Goldman L22, #13NCDC Mercer Chiefs 20-12-1-0-3-1: #13- 27 GP 2 A; 

  • College Club 5

Alex Norwinski L15 Liberty Club ACHA Div. 2 #27; 17-3-1-1-1:  on Div. 2– 22 GP, 5G, 11A [#27 on Div1- 2 GP] 

Ethan (#23) and Max (#30) Weinstein L20 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey ACHA Div. 3 8-1-2-0-0 #23 9 GP, 1G 2A; #30 5 GP in nets 

Ty Morton L’19 Ohio Club ACHA Div. 2 18-3-0-0-0-1: 5GP, 5W 2.80 GA

 Riley Knebel L22, UVa Club hockey ACHA Div, 2    Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey League 7-2-0-1

  • Prep School

Jacob Hookman-Vassa L*23 Loomis-Chaffee (7-3-1) senior #18, 11 GP 3g (data not readily available) 

Rugby

TJ Kim USNA 

Swimming

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern, 3-1; at Wisconsin; recent times 10:16.32 in 1,000 free 

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