BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 03/05/2023

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Mar 4, 2023
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HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks—

Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: Landon racks up IAC POYs in Basketball and Hockey(wrestling already earned this accolade) , plus All IACs; Basketball advances in MD State Private School tourney. Sprinter mark makes national rank.

Alumni

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

BASKETBALL— 1 pro BB player major factor for his Italian team; one Bear is coaching an ACC team; 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 league; 2 Div. III college both players getting time on ice as freshmen; 5 are playing in developmental leagues (one committed to Brown); 5 contributing to theirCollege Club teams; one playing for aFounders’ League team

Bear Lax Trax Fax — (abbreviated) in this Sunday Edition as John Nichols is away. 2 Bears added to list

Inside the White Rocks

Winter Sports

Basketball – (19-10) In 1^st round of MD Private School State Basketball Tournament beat MIAA B Champions and 7 game winning streak St. Mary’s of Annapolis 70-58.

Then the Bears ran into 30-6, WaPo #11 Shabach Christian Academy, a team that played a mostly national schedule, losing only to big time competition (like Oak Hill Academy, St. Frances Academy (Baltimore)). A 60-90 outcome shows a margin in score. But not effort. The Bears exhibited Coach Turner’s 1000% effort approach to the game- contesting their opponents 84’ every second of the game and an O that pushes the ball as soon as the other team’s shot misses. It will be interesting to see the 2023-2024 hoops team.

IAC honors

The season is not complete for one Landon player

Tyler has been honored with an invitation to the prestigious Capital Classic, the nation’s most legendary high school basketball All-American game (Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 2:00PM at the Events DC Entertainment & Sports Arena) [tickets]

Hockey – (13-3-3) Coach Parker’s skaters completed a successful season with conference and league honors:

In All-IAC voting, Reid Pehrkon was named PLAYER OF THE YEAR. Owen Calderone, Arthur Smink, and Graham Haberl were also named to the All-IAC team. In All-MAPHL voting, Reid was named to 1^st team All-MAPHL. Quinn Farland and Sebby Kenary also received votes from coaches across both leagues.

Over 11 years of attending Bears’ hockey games, the hallmark of every team has been the difference between their structure/discipline in November and how they play in playoff time. This year little things were evident– their success in breakout plays, dominance between the blue lines, wins at F/Os, selfless passing, sound D, to name a few of Coach’s ice lesson plans.

Indoor Track schedule shows next meet in April. In the interim, a Bear is putting down national times:

Swimming and Diving season complete

Wrestling Coach KATZ’s grapplers completed the most impressive IAC season (undefeated in regular matches and dominant in tournament) and in post season tournaments!!!

Spring Sports

Baseball promising squad under Coach Reed starts this week to begin a 20+ game season.

NOTE: Coach Powers gets a warm welcome in his new position. Good luck.

Golf– Coach Luther returns a talented group of linksmen and heads to Baltimore to get their first scores.
LacrosseCoach McGettigan’s roster will be challenged by its schedule in the ridiculously competitive DMV lax land. First game at Severn on March 7
Rugby New Coach Tyler brings experience of college club scrums to a band of Bears who have shown a trend of year-over-year improvements.
TennisRacquets Coach Miller moves to the outside courts where visitors may be intimidated by the surrounding construction.
Track Based on the indoor times, Coach Dichiara should have an interesting season. The first meet is on the Ides of March.

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Bear Tracks

Winter Sports

Basketball 6

Professional –1

Darion Atkins #44, L11, Dolomiti Energia Trento, 7^th in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A :10-9. #44 19 GP averaging 30.3 minutes, 13.6 ppg, 5.3 rpg , 1.7 apg, 0.7 blkspg, 1.4 spg next game 3/5.

Div. I Basketball Coach-1
Christian WebsterL09 VaTech Assistant Coach 17-13

College-4

Miles Davis L18 St. Lawrence Saints (19-7); #3 senior; 23 GP, 10.9 mpg, 3.4 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.4apg team won NEC and earned a dance in the NCAA Div. III tournament against University of Mary Washington 3/3

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola Greyhounds (13-20): #24 senior; 8 GP, 1 GS v. AU, , 2.3 mpg, 0.4 ppg, 0.3 rpg, 4 year career completed

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (10-14): #2 sophomore; 24GP/23GS, 27.1 mpg, 7.8 ppg, 3.5 apg, 3.2 rpg, 1.3 steals per game—leads team in assists, steals, 2^nd points SEASON COMPLETED

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (14-12) #10 sophomore; Kino, Jr.: 26GS/GP, 34.6 mpg, 16.8 ppg, 2.5 apg, 1.9 rpg leads team in minutes, and points. Ivy League 3^rd in ppg; 5^th in FT %; 1^st in 3p points

Hockey 14

Professional Hockey 2

Sam Anas, L11: #7Hershey Bears (33-13-5-2) 1^st in Atlantic Division- Sam is on injured reserve after abdominal surgery

Patrick Giles L*18:  #36 Charlotte Checkers (30-18-3-2) 3^rd Atlantic Division: #36- 53 GP 3 G, 9A;

College Hockey 2

Kareem Al-Azem#34 L*22 since 01/02/23 has been playing for Connecticut College Camels (5-19-0) 14 GP 1G 1A 16 shots All games in’23 SEASON COMPLETE

Oscar Smink L’21 Amherst College Mammoths #6 (16-5-4 and FIRST in NESCAC) #6: 10 GP, 1 A (against Kareem’s team) 12 shots TEAM playing in conference semi-finals Saturday night

Development Hockey 4

Matthew Brille #20 L*20; NAHL Chippewa Steel (Brown’27) team 22-21-1-1: #20 is the Steel Captain, 42 GP 14 G 20 A; 3^rd in points on team. Featured in Chippewa Herald Matt answers questions from local sportswriter—revealing even to his Mom.

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks (22-20-3-0); played 41 GP, 9 G 7 A

JH Lages L*21,#2 Wellington Dukes OJHL: 35-12-3-2; #2 30 GP 2G 8A; previous team EHLNew Jersey 87’s JH 3 GP, 2G. Clinched playoff

Ethan Goldman L22 (Connecticut College), #13 NCDC Mercer Chiefs 25-20-1-0-3-1: #13- 36 GP 2 A;

College Club 5

Alex Norwinski L15 Liberty Club ACHA Div. 2 #27; 26-4-1-1-1: on Div. 2– 32 GP, 13G, 17 A tied as second in pts on Flames [#27 on Div1- 2 GP] team #1 in SE Region

Ethan (#23) and Max (#30) Weinstein L20 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey ACHA Div. 3 16-2-2-0-0 #23 18 GP, 2G 6A; #30 10 GP as skater not as a G.

Ty Morton L’19 Ohio Club ACHA Div. 2; 22-5-3-0-0-0-1: 5GP, 5W 2.80 GA

Riley Knebel L22, UVa Club hockey ACHA Div, 2 Atlantic Coast Conference Hockey League 3-4-0-1

Prep School

Jacob Hookman-Vassa L*23 Loomis-Chaffee (12-6-3) senior #18, 16 GP 3g (data not readily available)

Rugby

TJ Kim USNA

Swimming

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern, 3-4; recent times 10:16.32 in 1,000 free; 1:56.77 in 200 fly

Spring Sports

Early Edition of BLTF– John Nichols is away for the weekend

Division I

–Dartmouth 3-0(Brendan Gallagher, Brett Gallagher, Cameron Brown, Zak Oehlerking) beat Siena 11-8; Cameron played and scored; Brett played Cameron’s goal–https://twitter.com/i/status/1632111869140905987

–Denver 3-2 (Ryan Giles) beat UNC 9-8; Ryan played

–Harvard 2-1 (Joey Graham) beat 12-5 UVM

–Hobart 2-2 (Jackson Galiani) beat Robert Morris 8-6;

–#4 Maryland 3-2 (John Geppert) lost to Notre Dame 13-12 in 3 O/T; John had 7GBs 1CT.

–Michigan 2-2 (Graham Hertzberg, Hunter Taylor) beat #16 Delaware 16-12; Taylor started and made 6 saves on 15 SOGs; substituted at start of second half

–Navy 3-1 (JT Thomas, Preston Luger) lost to Lehigh 10-13

–#8 Ohio State 3-1 (Cullen Brown) lost to Cornell 13-16; Cullen played 1GB 1CT

–#10 Penn 1-1 (Stephen Bou) lost to #17 PSU 9-15

–#13Yale 2-1 (Jake Cohen) beat UMass 18-9; Jake started

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Division III