BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 03/12/2023

BearSportsNews

Sunday Edition

03/12/2023

HIGHLIGHTS

Inside the White Rocks—

Catching up on all Landon Varsity Athletes: Winter moving to Spring seasons: lots of news—baseball 1-1; golf crushes MIAA opponent away; lacrosse beats The Heights; tennis 1-1; fencing, frisbie and track no news; WINTER IAC SEASON all three major sports have BEARS as Players of the Year (remember soccer, too)

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. 2 Bears are college seniors and have career stats

HOCKEY—2 pros in same competitive league; 2 Div. III college both players seasons complete; 5 are playing in developmental leagues (one committed to Brown); 5 contributing to theirCollege Club teams; one playing for aFounders’ League team 

Inside the White Rocks

Spring  Sports

• BASEBALL—Coach Reed’s schedule shows scrimmages against BCC and Wootton,- big games this week for this promising line up

• FENCING—Coach Brady has posted nothing O-fencing 

• FRISBIE—Coach Calloway’s team first match is on the Ides of March 

• GOLF—Coach Luther reports 

First match of the season: the Bears hit the links at Bretton Woods, on a breezy day yesterday to face a solidMcDonoghteam, who was coming off a solid win in their opening match the day before.  We played the MIAA Match Play Format, which is pretty cool. …  

John Bates and Charlie Lynn, our returning All-Met’s, took on their top-2 players and provided the start we needed, with John closing out all 3 points, Charlie getting 2.5, and Landon winning the best ball point.  With five birdies on the card scattered between them over the ten holes, this was a strong effort.  Landon 6.5 McDonogh 0.5

Freshmen Will LeBlanc and Paul Baier took on #3-4.  A fellow freshman, Will’s opponent had actually competed against him in some summer tourneys before.  With a solid start from both our young bucks in their first HS match, we took the early points (Paul won the first 5 holes!).  In the second half, Will’s opponent had a good par to even the match through 7, but on the 8^th hole a double dog-leg (lots of turns) par-5, Will clipped a tree with his drive.  However it was still out there far enough to give him a shot at a pretty tough to reach green.  Will hit his 230 yard second shot to 10’ and calmly rolled in his first EAGLE in a Landon match.  He would win the next hole to close out the 2^nd and 3^rd pt of his match.  Paul’s opponent rallied well and won their first outright point of the match on the 2^nd 5.  Landon wins the 10 hole points and the best ball point.   Second group:  Landon 6 McDonogh 1;  Overall Landon 12.5 McDonogh 1.5

3^rd group was Charlie Burr and Mark Evans.  Charlie and his opponent played back and forth the whole match, with Charlie making two big putts in a row to halve the first 5 holes and start the second 5.  They would end up tied for all three points.  Mark’s opponent was solid and he did a pretty good job of capitalizing on any openings he was given.  He won all three points against Mark.  Mark and Charlie both struggled with their short putts, and that was the difference in this pairing.  Third group:  Landon 1.5 McDonogh 5.5; Overall Landon 14 McDonogh 7

4^th group matched up Griffin Lugar in his first Varsity start and our 3^rd Freshman Owen Moore.Grifiin out of the gate made a strong statement, with a birdie on the first hole.  He would go on to win the first 4 holes.  His opponent rallied nicely after that blitz, and he made a great par on the last hole to halve the second half of the match. But Griffin was too solid all day, and won the overall as well! Owen showed some real mental toughness in the first 5 holes, when his guy made a very tough par on 1, Owen responded with one of his own on two to square the match.  Owen missed his par putt on 3 only to see his opponent jar his in. Down 1 two to go.  Owen proceeded to take care of both of them to win the first 5.  In a similar fashion, Owen’s opponent wins the 7^th hole to take a 1 hole lead with two to go.  This time Owen wanted a little more drama in the finish.  On the same hole Will LeBlanc eagled earlier, Owen chipped it in the cup for the incredibly rare second Landon eagle on the same hole in the same match!  This also closed out the best ball point too.  He would proceed to bring it home on the final hole and win all 3 points.    Landon 6.5 McDonogh 0.5                Final Score Landon 20.5 McDonogh 7.5       IT WAS A GOOD DAY!

• LACROSSE Coach McGettigan’s young squad were able to defeat the Cavaliers of The Heights 7-5 based on tenacity and an all field game. Next the Purple Eagles home on Tuesday 

• TENNIS Coach Miller’s men of the nets get it started right beating SPS 5-2 

but not so good against Wootton 1-6 

TRACK Coach Gagnon heads to SSSA 3/15 

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. They had a match against Good Counsel, but no results posted yet.

Winter Sports

Over 10 years of following Bear sports, subject to a diminishing memory, this may be the first season where Landon athletes achieved the IAC Player of the Year Awards in three major sports-  

Lest we forget, a Bear was the IAC and WaPo soccer players of the year. Scored his first MLS goal before graduation from Landon  

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] 

Bear Tracks

Spring Sports

Baseball

Pro

Randy Bednar, L’17 Everett AquaSox high A affiliate of Seattle Mariners   

College

Dane Camphausen L’19 (Wooster Scots 1-1) has a .500 BA, 1 HR and 1 RBI, more importantly, the Senior first  baseman completed his thesis in computer science early and per college practice received the emblematic Tootsie Roll 

Jake Davidson L’19 (Kenyon OWLS 5-2) #13 two appearances, 2.1 IP, 2 SOs 

Jack Cope L ‘20 (W&L Generals 8-3) 4.2 IP, 2 ER, 4 SO, .143 B/BA 

Matthew Sicoli L’21 (Emory Eagles 9-5) 9GP 4GS .429,4RBI 

Robbie Lee L’22, (Denison College 5-1) no appearances yet 

Golf

Charlie Bundy L’22 (College of William & Mary Tribe), first spring match 3/13 

Swimming

Jacob Rosner L’19 Northwestern, 3-4; recent times 10:16.32 in 1,000 free; 1:56.77 in 200 fly 

Edward Ha, L’21(Hamilton College1-9) 

Ethan Tun, L’21 Carlton College 

Tennis

Sachin Das L’19 (University of Chicago 8-2; #1 NCAA Div. III team) singles 1-1, doubles 7-2 

Fall Sports (spring practice)

Winter Sports

Basketball 6

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44, L11, Dolomiti Energia Trento, 6^th in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A :11-9. #44 20 GP averaging 30.4 minutes, 13.4 ppg, 5.1 rpg  , 0.5 apg, 1.3 spg  

• Div. I Basketball Coach-1

Christian Webster L09 VaTech Assistant Coach 19-14, not on ESPN Joe Lunardi’s in or out lists

• College-4

Miles Davis L18 St. Lawrence Saints (19-8); #3 senior; lost in NCAA 1^st round; CAREER– 72 GP 11 GS, 14.0 mpg, 3.9 ppg, 1.3 rpg, 0.5apg team won NEC  

Daraun Gray L’19 Loyola Greyhounds (13-20): #24 senior; CAREER 22 GP, 1 GS, 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 SEASON COMPLETED with Kino, Jr. All Ivy first team

Hockey 14

• Professional Hockey 2

Sam Anas, L11: #7Hershey Bears (34-14-5-2) 1^st in Atlantic Division- Sam is OFF injured reserve. May be back in time for Calder Cup.

Patrick Giles L*18:  #36 Charlotte Checkers (33-20-3-2) 3^rd Atlantic Division: #36- 58 GP 3 G, 9A; Checkers qualify for Calder Cup.

• 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 (16-6-4 and FIRST in NESCAC) #6: lost in O/T 0-1; 10 GP, 1 A ) 12 shots  

• Development Hockey 4

Matthew Brille #20 L*20; NAHL Chippewa Steel (Brown’27) team 22-21-1-1: #20 is the Steel Captain, 44 GP 15 G 21 A; 3^rd in points on team.  

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks (23-20-3-0); played 43 GP, 10 G 8 A 

JH Lages L*21,#2 Wellington Dukes OJHL: 2-0 in playoffs; regular season 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 26-20-1-0-3-1: #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)