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BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 02.02.2020

BearSportsNews Sunday Edition

February 2, 2020

  • Bears within the White Rocks

    • Hockey is tied by O’Connell but beats StA

    • Basketball playing exciting, smart hoops beats Potomac and then StA; Bear reaches 1,000 career points

    • Wrestling places 8 on the podium on way to 2nd place, 2 Bears All IAC

    • Swimmers do well at WMPSSDLs

  • Bears OUTSIDE THE White Rocks

    • One Bear Alumnus playing pro hoops now in Germany

    • Three Bear Alumni playing college hoops; one leads his team in almost all offensive scoring categories

    • Four Alumni are playing hockey at four levels pro to club

      • One Bear Hockey Alumnus is #2 scorer in AHL

      • Another Bear returns to ice after injury

    • Two Alumni are swimming at college level

    • Two Alumni are on wrestling rosters

    • two Alumni earn All Academic honors with Patriot League

    • Thirty-four Alumni are on lacrosse rosters- one is subject of WaPo article

  • INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

WINTER SPORTS

  • Basketball (8-11) beat StA Landon 69, St. Albans 54 on the same night that Canin Reynolds reached the 1,000 career point achievement. Last week Coach Turner’s team beat Potomac School 64-61.

  • Squash (1-4)

  • Swimming (1-2) Bears take 5th overall out of 20 teams at WMPSSDLs!

  • Indoor Track:

  • Wrestling (4-1) : from Coach Katz:

Team Score:

1            Bullis, MD                                     191.0

2            Landon, MD                                 118.5

3            Georgetown Prep, MD                113.5

4            St Albans, DC                               101.0

5            St Stephens/St Agnes, VA           70.0

6            Episcopal, VA                               51.0

Placements:

106 John Bates 2nd place

113 Charlie Lynn 3rd place

132 Lorenzo Lopez Champion  (ALL IAC)

138 Matt Amitay 2nd place   (ALL IAC)

145 Tyler Younge 2nd place

152 Anthony Savoy 3rd place

160 Marc Schermer 2nd place

170 Jerrold Johnson 2nd place

182 Ty Reyes 4th place

195 Will Abramson 4th place

220 Eric Cao 3rd place

285 Sachin Srikanth 4th place

Highlights: The young Bears had 5 freshmen place with 7 freshmen in the line-up.  All four Seniors made it to the finals. We had 6 guys in the finals. Matt Amitay was elected by the coaches as All IAC at large. Lorenzo Lopez wins his 4th straight IAC title. Lorenzo is the first Landon Bear to win 4 straight titles.  Landon Secured 2nd place in the IAC.

Varsity B IAC Championships from Thursday January 30

138  Daniel Robinson Champ

138 Thomas Eusse 2nd

145 Nico Schermer Champ

145 Jack Tepper 2nd

152 David LaPrade 2nd

220 Gabe Johnson 2nd



BEAR TRACKS

Basketball (4)

Professional Basketball (1)

Darion Atkins (L 11) now with Brose Bamberg (8-7)? GP,? min.,? ppg, ? rpg, ? bpg.

College Basketball (3)

Tone Cockrell (L’17) Keystone College (9-12) #5 junior, started in all games, averaging 34.4 min., 20.5 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 124 assists and 38 steals—leading the Giants all but one of those categories.

Daraun Gray (L’19) Loyola (10-13) #24, freshman, 6 GP  8 min.

Justin Patterson (L’18) Towson (13-10) #44, freshman, 5 GP  22 min., 2.0 ppg. 5 reb. 1 assist. 1 block 3 steals

Golf (2)

Morgan Egloff L15, Rollins College, Tars, off until Spring which in FLA is soon

Evan Katz, L17, Duke University, off until Spring which in NC is March in Las Vegas

Hockey (4)

AHL Hockey (1)

Sam Anas L11 Iowa Wild (27-14-3-3) 47 GP  15 g 34 a = 41 pts #2T in AHL

USPHL Hockey Elite division (1)

Ty Morton L’19 Hampton Roads Whalers (23-13-4-0-1-1) Ty: 18 games 9-4 1.81 GAA 0.936 save % 4 SOs

College Hockey (2)

Patrick Giles (L*18) #4 Boston College -(17-6-0) 8 GP, 2G 2A, 2 Short Handed Goals back in line-up and got a shot on goal as Eagles shut out #7 UMass.

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University #1 in the Southeast ACHA Div. 2 Hockey (24-3-1) 28 GP points 9 G 24 A 4PowPG, 1GWG  team beat Maryland 7-0 and 8-0 and Alex earned an assist.

Rugby (9)

Brendan McLenaghan  L19 Tulane ROSTERED spring season next

Tommy Baldwin L18, #17 Bucknell Bison 6-1 rostered

Aiden Howe L18, St. Mary’s College of California Gaels beat Cal Poly  ROSTERED

Wesley Pan L16 VA Tech, Hokies ROSTERED 1st team all Chesapeake Conference #9 position

Parker Swensrud L18, #15 NSCO (1-0) Denver University, Pioneers,4-0 beat Colorado School of Mines 31-17 ROSTERED

Jonathan Hsieh L17 University of Pennsylvania Quakers

Max Spiritos L17, placed 3rd in the B1G tournament with Max scoring a key touch 45-10 ROSTERED

Culver Van Vleck L14 player of the match for Potomac Exiles

Will Snyderwine L07 passed up a career as an NFL PK after leaving Duke to play rugby for Washington Irish

Swimming (2)

Sky Cui, L18, Vassar College, 5-3

Max Peraza, L18, Sewanee: The University of the South, 2-4 lost to Rhodes College 50-189

Wrestling (2)

Jonny Gherman L’19 Ursinus College Bears (7-2) #157  lost in the 1st round of the Will Abele Invitational, won the next match with a pin and then in the tournament format lost to a teammate in the next round.

Axel Giron L’19 York College (7-6) #125

Football

Mac Hollensteiner (L18) was one of 35 Big Hoyas to make Patriot All Academic (3.2 or better) Honors and Mark Ebo (L16)  was one of 35 Crusaders to be so recognized

Lacrosse (34)

The first John Nichols’ Bear Lax Trax Fax coming soon.

Bear-Terps Ian Healy, Matthew Kopp, John Geppert, and Justin Shockey caught up after Maryland’s season opening win over High Point.

Colin O’Brien (Bucknell) and Michael Abizaid (Furman)

Army: Drennan Green

Bucknell: Colin O’Brien

Cleveland State: Justin Conner

Colgate: Griffin Brown

Dartmouth: Brendon Gallagher, Brett Gallagher

Fairfield: Alex Hagerup (injured)

Furman: Michael Abizaid

Jacksonville: Andrew Mitchell, Hunter Sells

Johns Hopkins: Joey Epstein*

Loyola: Cam James

Maryland: Justin Shockey, John Geppert, Matt Kopp

Michigan: Zach Johnson

Navy: Thomas Evans*, Shane Corcoran

Penn State: Nate Buller

                  Richmond: Will Bou

St. Joseph’s: Thomas Halm

Towson: Mo Sillah

Virginia: Ryan Pride

Catholic University of America: Sean Feldman

Colby College: Miles Tonkel

Colorado College: Max Becker

Gettysburg College: Mitch Laughlin, Billy Banfield

Oberlin: Farley Price

Ohio Wesleyan: Guy King

Salisbury: Brian Menendez, Jace Menendez

Tufts: Kyle Amitay, Garrett Kurtz

Washington College: Will Oliver

*= team captain, bold = L’19


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