BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION 08.29.2021

Highlights

• Landon alum, father, leader and exceptional baseball player sadly dies

• 3 vARSITY BEAR teams getting ready for Fall openers

• 5 recent Bear alums are making their marks on pro and college diamonds

• 16 Bears are playing college football, all but 3 start next weekend

  • Mark your calendars for a Bears v. Bear in DC on 9/18

• 5 Bears playing soccer for Div. I (one) and III college team

  • One may be on ESPN + on 9/3

• 2 Bears heading to Annapolis for triangular water polo meet.

• 1 Bear getting ready to yell “stroke” at eight big guys in a shell, assuming no ice.

Inside the White Rocks

• FOOTBALL

After three successful scrimmages, the Bears will play Coolidge Senior High School on Friday September at home at 5pm. The Colts went 7-1 in the DCIAA in 2019, scoring an average of 33 points in their league. Coolidge beat Anacostia in O/T in its last the public school game (championship?), but lost to Maret in the City Championship. Speed and a sound defense were apparent at Saturday’s triangular scrimmage (O’Connell and Potomac). Though the MAC and WCAC B schools had several large players, the Bears controlled the scrimmage line.

• SOCCER

• WATER POLO

Coach Ros’s polo team is on a road trip of testing scrimmages in Philadelphia (versus Haverford School Episcopal Academy, Germantown Academy, Malvern Preparatory School) and then Baltimore (Mt. St. Joseph High School, McDonogh School). Regular season appears to start 9/16 v. Archbishop Spaulding.

Bear Tracks

• Baseball

Judge Stanley S. Harris L’44 died peacefully at his home on August 13, 2021, after a brief illness. He is survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Becky  Harris, and by Bear sons Scott L’84, , Todd ’85  and Mark. Judge The Judge attended Horace Mann Elementary School, the Landon School, and Woodrow Wilson High School. He later served on Landon’s Board of Trustees (as did his son) and was a recipient of its Distinguished Alumnus Award. Stan’s father Bucky was a player/manager for the Washington Senators baseball team that won the World Series in 1924. Stan played baseball for the Bears and eventually for UVA. He frequented the sidelines for his sons games.

A great Bear who will be missed.

• Randy Bednar (’17), signed in July by the Seattle Mariners following an outstanding career at the University of Maryland, was assigned to the Mariners’ affiliate in Arizona Complex League (formally known as rookie ball).  He is tearing up the league, hitting .297 with a .491 On Base Average, a .649 slugging percentage and 1.139 OPS.  In 15 games, he has 12 runs scored, 12 walks, 3 doubles, 2 triples, 2 homers and 9 RBI.

• Four Landon grads who played together for the Bears will be continuing their baseball careers this year in college.  Dane Camphausen (’19) will be a junior at Wooster College, where he garnered all-conference honors as a first baseman last season.  Jake Davidson (’19) will be a junior pitcher at Kenyon College.  Jake played for the D.C. Grays in the Cal Ripken Summer Collegiate Baseball league, where he made the league all-star team and led his team in innings pitched and wins.  Jack Cope (’20) will be a freshman pitcher at Washington and Lee and Matthew Scioli (’21) will be a freshman outfielder at Emory.

·      Dane Camphausen split his time between the Yard Dogs of the NVCL and the BAA Eagles of the MCBL, hitting a collective .385 with seven homers and 33 RBI in 28 games. Named to Mag’s Summer Collegiate All-Star Team

• Football

[NOTE: some colleges have not yet completed their web pages, esp. Div. III schools; also, last year’s pandemic cancellation has resulted in changes in academic years/eligibility]

Bryce Baylor, L18, RB #22, Dickinson College 9/4 Randolph-Macon

Mac Hollensteiner, L18  OL #77 Georgetown 9/4 Marist

Davis Walker, L19, K #47 Georgetown 9/4 Marist

Terrance Bridgers L19 (RS soph) DL, #93 Delaware State, 9/4 Bowie State

Joshua Chapman L19 #55 DL Pennsylvania 10/1 Dartmouth

Chazz Harley L19 #27 (RS freshman) DB  Elon 9/4 Wofford

Jelani Machen L19 #30, CB (1 of 4 players listed as CB), Harvard 9/18 @ Georgetown←←

Jalen Williams L19 (RS soph) DB #35, Boston College [per BC Bulletin “Every player in the secondary for BC is back this fall and they even added two transfers.”]. 9/4 Colgate

Gerney Johnson L21 RB Stevenson 9/4 Johns Hopkins

Tejon Ford, L20 LB/S #5 Shenandoah 9/4 Methodist

Tommy Kenary,L20  DL #62 Middlebury 9/18 @ Williams

Eric Ford,L21 USMAPS (United States Military Academy)  

Chantz Harley, L21, DB #30 ,Villanova 9/4 @ Lehigh

Greg Johnson,L21 OL #76 Georgetown  9/4 Marist

Dameon Ming,L21 RB/LB  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  9/4  Montclair State

Eric Speight, L21 DE #92 Pace 9/2 @ East Stroudsburg

College Coaching (2)

Justin Cort, L13, formerly Director of Operations, Delaware State now an assistant coach at Landon

Paul Padalino, L13, assistant coach, Georgetown

Rowing

Ari Chadda L18 , Dartmouth College, coxswain 10/9 v. Boston U. [assuming that the  Connecticut River is not frozen, home?]

Soccer 

Nico Kenary L18, #27 Amherst College, the  National Runner-Ups open 9/7 @ Norwich

Noah Hannam L18, #26 Middlebury College 9/7 @Mt. St. Mary’s (NY)

Drew Parker L18 , Kenyon College (international semester)

Burke McLaughlin L18, #5 Denison University 9/1 @ University of Mount Union

Allan Kupka L18, Denison University [not rostered]

Alex Riel L18, #4  Allegheny College 9/1 @Westminister

Issa Mudashiru, L21 #33 Princeton University 9/3 Rutgers ESPN+

Water Polo 

Ford Bruggen L20,#20  George Washington University 9/4+5 @Annapolis v. Iona, Princeton and Cal

Logan Kalish L21, George Washington University 9/4+5 @Annapolis v. Iona, Princeton and Cal