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BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 03.18.2018
for Urus Éireann by birth or in spirit, a day late
HIGHLIGHTS
Spring Sports
Baseball loses 2, but earns impressive win over Sidwell
Golf’s new line-up beats GC
Lacrosse upset by SJCHS, but then looks good against SMS
Rugby earns 2nd win in elevated league
Tennis wins
Bear Tracks
Bears making trax in college basketball, FOOTBLL, hockey and swimming
Bears making trax in professional indoor football, hoops, AHL and USHL (not pro)
Sam Anas sets an IOWA WILD scoring record
Spring Sports:
Baseball 6 Bears playing
Golf 4 Bears playing
Lacrosse 24 Bears playing
INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS
Varsity Baseball – (1-2) all games were in wind, snow, sleet and wind chills in the 20s! The Varsity baseball team started its season after two weeks of successful scrimmages. Coach Bill Reed hopes to build on the team’s second place IAC finish in 2017 and IAC championships in 2015 and 2016. The Bears will have to replace some stalwart seniors, including Randy Bednar — 2017 IAC player of the year– now starting for the University of Maryland. But, the Bears have three returning seniors, six returning juniors and six new varsity players to lead the club.
The Bears lost to Baltimore powerhouse Archbishop Curley and to Gonzaga before rebounding with a win Saturday over Sidwell.
In the Sidwell game, senior Xander DeNovio pitched six innings of no-hit ball in the Bears’ 8-2 triumph. Sophomore Jack Cope paced the attack with 5 RBI and junior Dane Camphausen contributed two doubles.
Earlier in the week, senior Ryan Fruewirth and juniors Jed Rosenberg and Will O’Shea pitched against Curley. Senior Zach Werhan and juniors Jake Davidson and Will Barufka pitched against Gonzaga. Junior catcher Kit Dziak threw out two potential base stealers against Gonzaga. The Bears staged a late inning rally against Gonzaga but came up just short in a 7-5 loss.
by Steve Davidson, whose exemplary career includes years as a sports writer
Varsity Golf– from Coach Luther:
Match #1 – 3/12/2018 – Bethesda Country Club, front 9, Gold Tees. par 35.
Conditions: low 30’s, wind 15-20 mph and cold, greens aerated, rolled, and sanded, but running smooth and quick.
Leaderboard:
Landon:
West Shaw: 40
Johnny Muller: 39
Charlie Bundy: 43
Jonathan Caplan: 46
Steven Samit: 45
Peter King: 45
Bruce Han: 49
Stuart Powell: 41
Alternates:
Vernon Holleman: 43
Peter Qiu: 42
Final Score:Landon 208 Good Counsel 212
Notes: Solid first win of the season for the Bears in some pretty cold, windy conditions on a course that plays tough on the best of days. Johnny Muller continued to pace the Bears with a 39, staying within 2 strokes of GC’s #1, All-WCAC player, Brandon Keller. West Shaw and Charlie Bundy put down solid rounds to keep it close through the first two pairings. The match turned in the Bears’ favor when Stuart Powell carded his season best score of 41, which included 3 pars and a birdie for the day. Steven Samit and Peter King brought it home by outplaying their two GC opponents by 7 strokes. In the words of Coach Reed, “There was much rejoicing” … and shivering.
Record stands at 1-0.
Next up: Bishop Dennis J O’Connell next Wednesday at Chantilly National.
Varsity Lacrosse– (3-1) Bears lost to Landon Lacrosse 10 St. John’s 12 and then beat Landon Lacrosse 8 St. Mary’s (Annapolis) 6
David Huberman’s video highlights from St. Mary’s
Coach JR Bordley’s interview with Casey Vock after the St. Mary’s game
Varsity Rugby – (2-0) Beat Gonzaga Black 45-15.,
Varsity Tennis-(1-0) from Coach Miller “we lost to Wooton 2-5 in a scrimmage and we beat Maret in our home opener 7-0. We play Whitman in the “Battle of Bethesda” on Monday and then Gonzaga on Tuesday.
Varsity Outdoor Track and Field– Apr7, 2018 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM, the Potomac Invitational
BEAR TRACKS
Professional and College Football
Terrence Fullum (L14) Sioux City Bandits (1-0) next game 3/18
Keith Simms (L16) Oregon Ducks is excelling at Spring Training #24
Winter Sports
Pro Basketball –LNB Pro ABasketball Champions League
Darion Atkins (L 11) SIG Strasbourg, France (15-6) beat Klaipeda 88-78 DA: 17 min, 7 points, 8 reb,1 asst,1 stl ) onto the Final Four of the Basketball Champions League
College Basketball
Coach Christian Webster, (L09) Va Tech (21-12) Assistant Coach; lost 83-86 to Alabama in 1st round of NCAA’s.
Ice Hockey
College (4)
Christian Meike, (L’14) Michigan Wolverines (20-14-3) D, has played in 6 games; B1G tournament lost to Ohio State 2-3 in O/T, in NCAA Tournament
AHL
Sam Anas (L11) Iowa Wild (20-18-9-5) Sam has 20 goals and 31 assists in 55 games.
10th place tie in scoring in the AHL: https://theahl.com/stats/player-stats
1st place in team scoring
setting a new all-time team scoring record of 49 points, with 16 games to go.
He also scored on a shootout loss Friday to up his shootout stats to 4 goals for 6 attempts – a very high %.
In the article below, there is a video clip of Sam at the point coming in and making a nice move and somehow making a pass to a wide open winger (increase the size of it to see it better):
Iowa is in third place in a very competitive AHL Central Division with 2 games in hand over others: https://theahl.com/stats/standings
USHL Hockey
Patrick Giles (L*18) (24-13-0 in USHL; clinched conference) has 56 games (all) 8 Gs and 11As Ranked#19 by NHL Central Scouting
SPRING SPORTS
Baseball (6)
Randy Bednar Jr., (L17) University of Maryland Terps, 9-8 RB: hitting .222, 14 hits, 9 rbi’s, 7 runs, 3 hr’s, 100% fielding
Drew Whalen, (L17) Lenoir-Rhyne University Bears 18-10; DW: no stats yet
Matthew Brady, (L16) Carleton College Knights (2-2) in AZ for spring MB: no stats yet
Patrick Lightner, (L16) Marist College Red Foxes (3-10); PL:10 GP 8 GS; BA .036
Sean P. O’Brien (L14), Macalester College Scots (7-6) SO: 4 IP, 1-0,
Spencer Abraham (L15), Claremont McKenna College Stags (13-8) SA: 4GP ,0/1, 1RBI
Golf (4)
John Kalavritinos, (L17) Bucknell University (0-0) 1st match 3/24 JK:
Evan Katz, (L17) Duke University 5th in the Querencia Cabo Collegiate in Los Cabos, Mexico. EK:
Mike Blasey, (L15), Davidson College – MB:
Morgan Egloff, (L15). Rollins Tars, Southeastern Collegiate team #11 ME: 78
Lacrosse (24)
John Nichols BLTFlast week and each week
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