BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 12.16.2018

HIGHLIGHTS

• It’s unusual to highlight one sport but it’s great that Basketball is undefeated with a win over McNamara

• Wrestling beats Bishop Ireton

• Hockey wins one and ties a MAPHL opponent

• THESE THREE TEAMS ARE RANKED #14, #8 AND #9 BY WaPo

• Indoor Track does well at EHS meet

Tracking Bears playing college sports

• Davis Walker on the Tulane Roster for a Bowl game

• College teams are in exams and/or holidays

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

• Winter Sports

  • Basketball (8-0) WaPo #14[­?] beat neighbor WWHS 88-51 with Canin Reynolds’ 20 pts and Dane Camphausen’s 14 rebs. then 2 days later beat Sandy Spring 79-68 Dane 31 points and 21 rebs.

With 2 days rest against WCAC McNamara, which had beaten #8 Gonzaga and which has a roster with two 6’10” players, an 6’9” senior (prospect) and a 6’7” URI commit.

The Bears, at SJCHS, took a 28 point lead into half time off aided by this by Kino Lilly bucket at the buzzer https://twitter.com/i/status/1074032826884997126

The FINAL SCORE is Bears 71- Mustangs 66; the individual stats BELOW. Twitter indicates that Canin finished with 21 points, 8 assists, 5 rebounds and 4 steals Another Tweet includes a picture of the game MVPs—the 6’7” URI commit Mekhi Long and Canin Reynolds (would be interesting to see his scoring average for the week).

• Hockey-WaPo #9 (3-1-1) beat Landon Hockey 6 Tri Cities Eagles AA U18 1, then tied Landon Hockey 2 Archbishop Spalding 2

• Swimming and Diving– 3 matches but no report- not even a TWITTER account.

• Indoor Track & Field Shows Promise at the Episcopal Early Bird Meet

Friday, December 7

Alexandria VA

By Coach Hunt

The Indoor Track & Field season got off to a solid start with the Bears traveling down to Episcopal’s Flippin Fieldhouse for an early season non-scoring meet. Team Captain Jelani Cross ‘19 opened up the season with a personal record throw of 38’ 3½” for first place.  Sophomores Erick Speight and Kaleb Starks took 7^th and 14^th, respectively, in the 55-meter dash with Speight missing finals qualification by 0.03 seconds.  Nathaniel Castro ‘21 took third in the 300-meter dash with a personal record run of 40.07.  The meet concluded with a spirited 4 x 400-meter relay effort by Castro, Cross, Starks, and Speight.   The Bears came from behind to win their heat ahead of Georgetown Day School and finished second overall in a time of 3:55.95.  Kevin Bai ‘21, Mac Gibby ‘22, and Pernell Leamon ‘21 performed well in their first indoor experience. Landon will finish out the 2018 portion of the season at Georgetown Prep this Wednesday.  Complete results can be found here.

• Wrestling – WaPo #8 (2-0 in duals)

  • Landon 49 Bishop Ireton 27 by Coach Katz

The match started at 170.  Junior Jerrold Johnson started the Bears off correctly with a pin in the first period.  Followed by Senior Captain Jelani Machen, Jelani upped his record to 6-0 with a 45 second pin.  At 195 Dameon Ming notched his first win on his belt with a 10-3 decision. Miles Tonkel received a forfeit at 220.  Eric Cao was wrestling a good match at 285 until he got tossed to his back for a loss.  The BI streak continued through our lower weights at Osmond, Zola, and Townsend got knocked off making the team score 24-20 BI.  At 126 & 132, Captains Axel Giron and Lorenzo Lopez turned things back around each with quick pins as the two spent a total of 50 seconds on the mat.  Matt Amitay continued his winning ways by beating one of their best wrestlers 7-4.  Patrick Kielb solidified the team victory with a pin in the second period.  Lucas Anderson dropped a close 4-1, while Marc Schermer ended the match with another quick pin.

We managed to get in 9 exhibition matches. Our young wrestlers had a great day. They went 8-1.  Andrew Hohlt,Yobany Matos, Alden Adkins, Graysin St. Aubin, Peter Van Allen, Sachin Srikanth, David Diaz, and Miles Tonkel all earned hard fought victories.  Daniel Samuel wrestled well but was not able to hold of his tough opponent.

• Here is a link to a nice article featuring Jelani Machen by Lem Satterfield from the Sentinel.

https://mont.thesentinel.com/2018/12/08/landons-machen-wins-round-one-over-bullis-brown-in-182-pound-mad-mats-tournament-clash/

Jelani Machen of Landon takes down Austin Brown of Bullis for a hard-fought 5-2 decision in the 182 pound weight class finals. PHOTO BY MIKE CLARK

BEAR TRACKS

Basketball (6)

Professional Basketball (1)

Darion Atkins (L 11) Hapoel Holon, (6-2 2^nd place) lost to Venice’s Miracle Ziona.

College Basketball (2)

Aaron Byrd (L’15) Augusta University (5-2), next game 12/17

Tone Cockrell (L’17) Marywood Pacers, (6-4) lost to Moravian 51-87 played 18 minutes 6 points, 4 reb., 1 assist

College Coaching

Coach Christian Webster, (L09) #13 Va Tech (9-1) Assistant Coach

Coach Joe McDonald (L12), is coaching at the high school level in NJ

Football

Keith Simms, L16, LB University of Oregon, Ducks (8 -4) season- REDBOX BOWL OREGON V. MICHIGAN STATE 12/31 at Santa Clara

Davis Walker, L18, K #61  Tulane University,  in Camping World Stadium, Orlando, FL beat La Lafayette 41-24 in the AutoNation Cure Bowl

Ice Hockey (7)

College (3)

Connor Meike (L’12) Williams Eph Men 5-2-1,

Christian Meike, (L’14) #11 Michigan Wolverines (6-7-4)

Patrick Giles (L*18) Boston College (6-6-2),

College Club(1)

Jacob Ruttenberg (’15), Tufts Club,

AHL

Sam Anas (L11) Iowa Wild (13-5-4-1; 1^st in conference), INJURED but maybe the only bear immortalized in a bobblehead.

Swimming (2)

Sky Cui, L18, Vassar College, 2-2 no meets in December

Max Peraza, L18, Sewanee: The University of the South, 1-2 in duals and 1^st and 2^nd in multiple team meets, next meet in January.

To all of the BearSportsNewsreaders–

The Mustangs certainly now know that Bears are not to be underestimated; Landon beat their football team 15-35.