BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION

January 21,2024

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS—

• Hockey beats DeMatha 10-1

• Basketball plays SSSAS tough

• Wrestling gets tested at Gilman Duals, today, St. Paul VI High School, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School  

• Squash beats BCC

BEAR TRACKS

—27 Bears in 9 sports and 4 levels (5 pros included)

• SOCCER– Pro—1 rostered and scoring on EPL U21club getting great reviews

• GOLF–3

• 2 Developmental Pros 

• 1 Div. I player  

• 1 Div. III player 

• SWIMMING- 1 Div. I; 2 Div. III 

• WINTER SPORTS

• BASKETBALL–5

• I PRO in Italy 

• I COLLEGE DIV. I COACH

• 2 DIV. I {BOTH LEADING TEAMS AND IVY LEAGUE} and 3 DIV. III PLAYERS– HOCKEY-10

• PRO:1 in EHL and 1 KHL— fellow Bears go to Charlotte for Winter Classic; other leading team scorer and celebrates 1st KHL hat trick 

• COLLEGE: 1 Div. I played; 3 Div. III getting PT 

• COACHING: 1 Div. III, 1 ACHA Div. 2

• DEVELOPMENTAL—2 one wears the team A and 2ND in assists & points

• CLUB-2

• WRESTLING-1

• Div. III grappler will hit the mats tomorrow

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

BASKETBALL— Coach Franklin had his Bears ready to battle SSSAS in 1st 2024 IAC game losing 62-79. The Saints are one of 3 leagues with exceptional talent; Prep and Bullis won their openers by larger margins. Bears playing EHS snow delay

HOCKEY—Coach Parker’s squad staggered DeMatha 10-1 and face MAPHL’s #1, WaPo’s #4 Gonzaga (13-4-0) (1/24; H) and then StA (1/16; H). Friday’s Spaulding match is being rescheduled. 

SWIMMING—COACH Ros splash at GP 1/24 

TRACK—Coach Brown’s runners hit the track at EHS 1/25 

WRESTLING—Coach Katz, the best reporter/coach reviewed his team’s recent competitions:

January 13, 2024 

The Bears entered the most competitive dual event of the year called the Gilman Duals.  This competition had 12 competitive teams from six states including PA, CT, DE, NJ, and VA. The Bears wrestled really well to win their pool division by beating The Hill School (PA) by a score of 51-27.  The highlights were wins by JAMES HANLEY, CONNOR KOEGEL, & NATE FURGESON.  JETT BUCHANAN lost a close match in Sudden Victory.  Juniors DP POPE AND TILLER SMITH knocked off Prep Nationally ranked wrestlers. In our second match, we beat #13 ranked in MD Calvert Hall by the score 41-37.  This match was quite exciting as most every match was close.  Our freshmen light weights helped pull out the team victory when DENNIS LEARY (106) and DOMINGO ESCUDERO (113) started the action with first period pins.  JAMES HANLEY and JOE PAPALIA kept the ball rolling with 2 pins as well…. Bears up 24-0.  Calvert Hall bounced back with a couple of wins. WILL LEVY (144) put a stop to the momentum with a technical fall.  Calvert Hall earned a couple more victories to hang in there until NATE FURGESON earned a pin against a tough wrestler. Again, Calvert Hall continued to challenge us with big wins against JETT BUCHANAN and DP POPE.  DP (#14 in the state) lost 5-1 to #8 ranked wrestler in MD.  The team score at 35-31 Landon with 2 matches left.  #7 ranked TILLER SMITH sealed the match with a pin of #12 ranked wrestler. 

By winning the pool, Landon moved to the top pool in the tournament. Unfortunately, we were out powered by #3 ranked Gilman and top ranked in Delaware St. Marks.  In the semi-finals, we had victories against Gilman by HANLEY, PAPALIA, AND SMITH…. Gilman 58-15.  In the consolation finals, we faired a little better, but lost to St. Marks 51-30.  We had victories from DENNIS LEARY, JAMES HANLEY, WILL LEVY, DP POPE, AND TILLER SMITH. 

At the end of the day, we placed 4^th as a team out of 12 tough teams.  Of note, James Hanley went 4-0 and gets closer to reaching the 100 win club (he stands at 88 victories with a COVID season missed).  Tiller Smith also went 4-0 with wins over ranked wrestlers.   

This week, we planned to travel to Alexandria, VA to seal at least half of the IAC title by facing our last opponent, Episcopal. We will also face St. James and WCAC foe Gonzaga. NEW DATE? 

Squash

Landon 5 BCC 2 

BEAR TRACKS

Cross Country/Track and Field -2

• Asim Hakim-Florian, L’23 Colgate University – at the Ramapo Opener  He ran 9:12.37 in the 3,000 meters race. 

• Sam Cohen, L’23, Tulane University- at the Kentucky Rod McCravy Memorial Meet with 10 teams 

SOCCER- 7

Professional Soccer 1

• Kristian Fletcher L’23: DC United forward/ Swansea City U21 no new news 

Swimming-3

Jacob Rosner L19 Northwestern senior; meet v. University of Chicago 221-73 

Ethan Tun L21 Carleton– THE KNIGHTS SWIMMING TODAY . 

Edward Ha, Hamilton ROSTERED? 

BEARS playing College Winter Sports

BASKETBALL-

1pro; 2 DI {both leading teams} ,3 DIII {all playing}; 1 Div. I coach

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44 L11, Reggio Emilia Div. (9-7, 16 GP, 19.8 min/g., 6.6 pts/g, 3.6 reb/g, 1.4 asst/g, 0.8 blk/g 

• College Coach-1

Christian Webster L09, VaTech Assistant Coach (11-7) 

• College-5

Consecutive social media post by their colleges—Bears climbing the Ivies!!! 

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (11-7): #2 junior— 6 GP, 13.2 min/g, 0.7 pts/game., 1.3 APg , 1.1 reb/game 

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (5-12) #10 junior; 16 GS, 1 Game Injured, 37.9 min/g*, 19.5 pts/g*, 3.0 assists/g*, 2.6 reb/g, .65 steal/g, 51 3PTs; *leads team;  

Mike Gray, L22, Lynchburg (10-7), #30; 8 GP, 6.8 min/g , 1.9 ppg, 1.0 reb/g,  

Tyler Perkins, L23 University of Pennsylvania (9-8); #11, freshman; 17 GS, 30.1 min/g, 14.3 pts/, 2.0 asst/g, 5.7 reb/g, 1.6 steals/g*; *leads team.  

Christos Palkogiannis, L23, California Institute of Technology (1-15), #33, FRESHMAN; 1 GS, 2GP, 15.5 min/g.  5.0 ppg, 2.5 reb/g, 2.0 asst/g, 

HOCKEY 11

Professional Ice Hockey-2

Sam Anas L’ 11, #77 HC Dinamo Minsk KHL (23-23-3-2); #77 51 gamest, 18 goals and 22 assists (leads Dynamo in both) S in those 50 games.

RMNB PICTURE “He is the third-highest scoring American in the league this season behind just Reid Boucher (61) and Alexander Chmelevski (44). First KHL hat trick

Patrick Giles L*18 #36 Charlotte Checkers (20-13-4-0) played in 33 games, 7goals, 3 assist- Checkers on 3 game W streak including outdoor game attended by Bears!!!

Div. III Men’s Hockey Coach-1

Kim Weiss, Assistant Coach for Trinity College (her alma mater) men’s team, 12-2-1 ranked 10th in Div. III 

College Club Coach and Pro Hockey -1

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University Div II Hockey Coach and Roanoke Rail Yard Dogs (19-8-2-1) 4 GP 2 A  

Division I–1

Matthew Brille #19; L*20; Brown (7-10-1) #19- 8 games played, 1 assist, 3 shots, 3 blk

• Division III–3

Oscar Smink L’21; Amherst College Mammoths (8-5-0): #6 – 5 GP, 1 assist, 6 shots, 6 blk 

Ethan Goldman, L’21; Connecticut Camels (5-7-2) #13 

Kareem Al-Azem L*20; Connecticut College Camels (5-7-2) #7 played 13 games 1 G 5 A 13 blk

• Development Hockey 2

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks,assistant captain, 20-14-1-1; #88 36 GP  10 G, 19A 2nd in team assists and 2nd in points

JH Lages L*21,#27, NCDC Twin City Thunder 8-19-0-2, 18 GP 6 A 

• Club Hockey

THE ACHA WEBSITE IS NOT RESPONDING; SO, RETRIEVING INFO ABOUT THESE TEAMS IS NOT WORKING

Ethan and Max Weinstein L20, Dartmouth

Ty Morton L20? Ohio University, ACHA MD2, 2 GP 

Owen Calderone L’23 LSU club 

Riley Knebel L’22 UVA Club hockey 4-7; 3-6 in league matches Atlantic Coast Hockey League

Zaahir Kahn L’22 GMU club hockey 

WRESTLING 

David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (0-7) NEWA duals tomorrow