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BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 05.20.18

Writer: goldenstateservicesj
goldenstateservicesj
May 19, 2018
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BearSportsNews  Sunday Edition 05.20.2018

Beach Week Coming

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Inside the White Rocks

    • Spring Sports

      • Golf earns 3rd at Metro’s

  • Bear Tracks

  • Winter Sports:

    • Darion is off to the playoffs

  • Spring Sports:

    • Baseball 6 Bears playing -all but one season complete; one career complete

    • Golf 1 Bears playing in NCAA’s

    • Lacrosse 24 Bears playing -2019 grads (minuses), PG (5th year), Transfer, riding SOs. JRs

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

Spring Sports

  • Varsity Baseball – (7-7; 4-5 IAC)

  • Varsity Golf– (8-2) 8-2 (4-1 in IAC); 2nd place IAC Tourney; 2nd place Freeman Memorial Tourney at Bear Trap Dunes, 3rd place Washington Metropolitan Championships.

From Coach Luther, whose frequent and thoughtful reports deserve a Bear award

The Varsity Golf Team has just returned from the day-long tourney at the Washington Metropolitan Championships, played at PB Dye Golf Course in Ijamsville, MD.  Funny thing about Ijamsville: if you bring enough rain gear, umbrellas, extra towels, change of clothes, and you spend three total hours over the course of three days as a group of coaches deliberating what happens in the event of a storm-shortened match as well as the best format to use to start the match, Ijamsville ends up being sunny and hot the whole day, with a pretty refreshing wind too.  As soon as we got through the tourney though, the skies turned purple and, like the Garth Brooks song, “The Thunder Rolled.”

The Metro Championship pitted the top two Catholic League Teams, defending champs and overwhelming favorite Gonzaga, and Bishop O’Connell who had a very strong season and lost only to Gonzaga, against the top two IAC teams, Prep and your Landon Bears.  Prep and Gonzaga were both undefeated going into today’s match.  The Eagles came out of the gate blazing – their number 1 and number 6 players (a freshman who was by far the longest hitter in the tourney) were both 5 under par through 7 and 9 holes respectively, and their number 2 player was 2 under par through 7 holes. Gonzaga’s #1 reached 5 under par by birdieing 5 consecutive holes.  It looked like they were going to run away with the cup, as many expected.  but then the back nine happened, and they came back down to earth, the number one shooting +5 on the back for a 72, good enough to be the medalist, but certainly looking like he would threaten the Metro championship scoring second.  Their number two player shot 3 over on the back nine for a 73, second lowest score of the tourney.  And their freshman bomber really unraveled and shot 12 over par on the back nine to shoot 79, in one of the strangest front 9-back 9 combos I have ever seen.  Gonzaga finished the day still shooting an impressive score of 383.  But Prep was just steady all-day long.  Not too many birdies, not too many bogeys.  and 74-75-75-75-78-80.  Ho-Hum!  But they won the whole thing by 10 strokes.  In all seriousness, they played an incredible match and found a way to get it done by just being solid.  You gotta tip the cap to them.

Like Gonzaga, most of the Landon Bears found the back nine to be really tough.  We just didn’t have the advantage of -5 cushions before the scores started slipping.  Johnny Muller, even par through 8 holes, finished +12 for the day.  Jonathan Caplan, +4 after 9, added another +10 to finish with an 86.  Stuart Powell shot an 88 with a +6 at the turn and +10 on the back.  West Shaw struggled early but actually had a strong stretch to finish his high school career, shooting an 84.  Peter King did not differentiate which 9 was tougher, and had a 46-45, 91 finish.  Our freshman sensation, Charlie Bundywas today’s bright spot for the Bears.  After a start similar to many of his teammates, 3 putt bogeys on his first two holes, Charlie settled down and played the next 16 holes in one over par, and shot a 75 which was good for a tie for 4th place for the individuals.  Team score of 417 for Landon.

But the Bears found the silver lining.  Today, we wanted to honor the request of one of our biggest fans, Landon alumnus, Michael Connolly, who keeps it real simple for me to relay to our team when he tells me, “Beat Prep. Beat Gonzaga!”   A tall order the way they played.  But the Bears ended up on the Podium, beating O’Connell by 14 strokes to come away with Bronze.  Our guys are excited for a summer of tourneys and are already planning their team practice regimen, weight training, cardio, and prayer rituals for next season.  They are pumped.

`And speaking of fans, a huge shout out to Mrs. Shaw, Mr. & Mrs. Powell, and Mr. Bundy, who came out to cheer on their sons.  And another huge shout out to our alums who spent the day helping the team, Morgan Egloff (’16) joined Jeff Samit, John Kalavritinos,Cole Gibson, and Jack Jarrett (’17), and they all did their best to try and help the Bears stay calm and focused during their challenging holes today.  Thanks to each of you guys for your loyalty and support for your old teammates!

BEAR TRACKS

Professional Football

  • Terrence Fullum (L14) Sioux City Bandits Champions Indoor Football (5-1) web site not up to date.

Winter Sports

Darion Atkins, 21 points to 10 of 14 shots, his record in the French league, 6 rebounds and 24 evaluation, had made a copy more than clean. But it’s mainly the collective performance that seduced him: “Our defense has grown in strength for six games and tonight is a great victory. We will play Nanterre in the first round of the playoffs and it will not be easy. We will have to play the same way as tonight, as a team. Advances in defense? The coach sticks to the buttocks every day in training, every minute. It will be necessary to make a special preparation because their game is specific, with their propensity to shoot at three points. We had done well before the semi-finals of the Coupe de France and it had paid off.

SPRING SPORTS

  • Baseball (6)

    • Randy Bednar Jr., (L17) University of Maryland Terps, 24-29 RB: hitting .205, 30 hits, 14 rbi’s, 12 runs, 5 hr’s, 988% fielding

    • Drew Whalen, (L17) Lenoir-Rhyne University Bears 27-22; season ended

    • Matthew Brady, (L16) Carleton College Knights (10-21) season ended

    • Patrick Lightner, (L16) Marist College Red Foxes (26-21); PL: GS 32; BA .137, 3 RBIs ; .941 fielding season ended

    • Spencer Abraham (L15), Claremont McKenna College Stags (18-22) SA: 5 GP season ended

    • Sean P. O’Brien (L14), Macalester College Scots (21-17) SO: 2 IP, 1-0; Career 3-3, 16 appearances; season ended

  • Golf (4)

    • John Kalavritinos, (L17) Bucknell University (0-0) JK:

    • Evan Katz, (L17) Duke University, 2nd in regionals EK: Freshman Evan Katzconcluded his week with a five-over 76 that featured a birdie on 17. He would finish his first-ever regional tournament at four-over; off to 3rd consecutive NCAA Championship i May 25-30 at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.

    • Mike Blasey, (L15), Davidson College –at the NCAA Regionals MB had a 71 on the last round but his Wildcats were 25th at the Raleigh regional. Not off to Stillwater. season ended

o   Morgan Egloff, (L15). Rollins Tars, ME : season ended.

  • Lacrosse (24)–– BearLaxTraxFax by John Nichols May15,2018 next year after 4 L’14 college grads heading off to the real world, John will be tracking 1 L’14 transfer to grad school, 6 L’15, 5 L’16 ,2 L’17, 4L’17 transfers, 10 L’18 off to college

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