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BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 02.18.2018

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
Feb 19, 2018
4 min read

two more Bear trophies

⇒Apologies that last two Sunday Editions have been disrupted by my visiting my CO and CT grandchildren. LOTS of good Bear actions have occurred over the fortnight (with such success, maybe more time away would be good?)

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Inside the Rocks

    • WINTER—

      • WRESTLERS excel at Melee on Metro and then make Bear mat history at Maryland Independent Schools tournament

      • HOCKEY takes the IAC in undefeated regular and tournament  seasons; onto MAPHL.

      • Basketball has two tough losses.

      • Indoor Track team results from Maroon & Black Relays and Mercersburg Invitational

  • Bear Tracks

  • Bears making trax in basketball, hockey and swimming

  • Bears making trax in professional hoops, AHL and USHL (not pro)


INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

  • Winter Sports


Landon’s Brendon Gallagher (145) won all five bouts, including a 16-0 technical fall in his semifinal and a pin for his title, to earn Outstanding Wrestler honors at the Melee On The Metro Tournament at Wilson High in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.









  • February 16-17, 2018 Hartford Community College

    • History continues to be made by this Bears wrestling team! We had another phenomenal weekend.  As a team we place 6th out of 30 teams.  This is the highest team finish in Bear history in the Maryland Independent State tournament. The last highest place was 7th in 2001 with 6 place winners. We had 7 place winners which is the highest in school history. Finally, after having 10 State finalists, Landon has its first State Champion. This year, every wrestler contributed to the team finish.

Patrick Townsend (106) hit the #1 seed right off the bat (for the second year in a row) and was eliminated from the tournament.

At 120, Axel Giron lived up to his seed and took 3rd in one of the toughest weights in the tournament.  He wrestled several close hard fought battles and went 5-1.  His only loss was 7-2 to the eventual champion.

At 126, Lorenzo Lopez makes school history by going 5-0 and becoming Landon’s first STATE CHAMPION.  He battled every second of the final match to hang on to a 4-2 lead.

At 132, Patrick Kielb placed for the second year in a row.  He went 2-3 to take 8th place.

 At 138, Matt Amitay went 1-2 and was one round away from the top 8.

At 145, Senior Captain Brendon Gallagher became Landon’s only 2x State finalist. He had a heartbreaking loss with a takedown in the last 15 second for the tie and then lost in overtime.  Brendon went 4-1 for the weekend and second place.  He hopes to place for the second time at Nationals next weekend.

 At 160, Jonny Gherman went 2-2 and lost one round away from the top 8.

At 170, Jelani Machen lost a tough match in the semi-finals to the eventual champion but wrestled back to 4th place.  This is the second year Jelani has place in the top 6.  He went 3-2 for the weekend and has qualified for Nationals.

At 182, Senior Carter Johnson went 4-2 for the weekend and placed 7th.  This was also the second year in a row to place at states.

At 195, Senior Joel Desroches went 2-3 to take 8th place.

At 220, Nick Haller (yes, Nick took one for the team and bumped up) wrestled the best he has ever wrestled and went 2-1.  He was one round away from placing.  He won his first match in the Ultimate tie breaker. He won his last match ever 11-5. At 285,

Terrance Bridgers had a tough tournament.  He did not get seeded and drew the 3rd seed in the first round.  T had his opponent on his back at one point and almost had the upset of the tournament, but eventually he fell to his opponent.  He lost a second battle in the wrestle backs where again he had his opponent on his back, but never got the pin call.

Our goal was to break the top 5 in the team standings, but we fell short by 14.5 points. Congratulations to the all the Bear wrestlers.  This season has been amazing.  We will end the season next week with Axel, Lorenzo, Brendon, and Jelani representing Landon at the National tournament at Lehigh University.


BEAR TRACKS

Winter Sports

DA: averaging, 23.7 min, 8.3 points, 5.4 reb, 1.8 asst, 0.9 blk

College Basketball

Aaron Byrd (L’15) Augusta University Jaguars (15-12), 26 GP. 25 GS, 9.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 54 assists, 22 steals. 2/21 1st round conference v. USC Aiken

Tone Cockrell (L’17) Marywood Pacers (15-10) 406 minutes, 4.4 ppg, 44 reb, 41 assists, 15 steals, CSAC FIRST ROUND – #5 MARYWOOD AT #4 ROSEMONT 2/19

Coach Christian Webster, (L09) Va Tech (19-8) Assistant Coach;

Coach Joe McDonald (L12), GWU (12-15) Director of Player Development

Ice Hockey



College (4)

  • Connor Meike (L’12) Williams Eph Men (13-10-1) D, beat Williams 6-5 played; tied Hamilton 0-0,

  • Jack Barton (L’14), Skidmore Thoroughbreds (6-18-2) F, lost to Babson 2-3 played. End of season,

  • Chris Javens (L’13), Skidmore Thoroughbreds (4-16-1) D, (6-18-2) F, lost to Babson 2-3 played. End of season,

  • Christian Meike, (L’14) Michigan Wolverines (16-13-3) D,

College Club (1)

  • Jacob Ruttenberg (’15), Tufts Club, no news

AHL

Sam Anas (L11) Iowa Wild (25-16-7-3) Sam has 18 goals and 22 assists in 45 games.

USHL Hockey

Patrick Giles (L*18) US National U18 (20-9-1 in USHL) has 11Gs and 19 assists. won the 5 nations cup

Swimming (2)

Jack Chlopak, (L17) Connecticut College Camels, injured

Jason Tang, (L17) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers,8-1, the #4 Div. III team beat Div. I Boston College 214.5-83.5— Jason is injured.

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