BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION

BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION

DECEMBER 31,2023

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO EVERYONE IN THE BEAR COMMUNITY  

As Bears everywhere head into 2024 with expectations backed by hard work encouraged by exceptional coaches and challenged by outstanding competition!!! 

BEAR65 will be in Malaga heading for the Straits of Gibraltar on 01/07/2024

HIGHLIGHTS

BearSportsNews 2023 in review 

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• Readers– US, Ireland, and UK 

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS—

• Football 3 Bears earn All State Prep recognition, only 2 schools had more

• Hockey puts 3 on MAPHL All Stars and losses to Malvern in Philly

• Basketball in tough holiday games wins 2 and loses 2

• Wrestling at Damacus goes 4-2 in pool play and is 4th of 16; state ranking puts the Bears as 

BEAR TRACKS

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

• FOOTBALL—1 NFL J-E-T-S 

• 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 

• RUGBY

• 2 players  

• 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– all on break 

• HOCKEY-10

• PRO:1 in EHL and 1 KHL—1 leading team scorer 

• COLLEGE: 1 Div. I played; 3 Div. III all on break 

• COACHING: 1 Div. III, 1 ACHA Div. 2

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

• CLUB-2

• WRESTLING-1

• Div. III hits the mats with wins

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

FOOTBALL – All State Div. II honors—ZACH CAMERON, NATHAN FURGESON AND ANTHONY PANETTI!!!

NOTE: only Prep and Concordia placed more on this squad PLUS JoJo Aidoo 6’2” 260# was a running back v. Landon 4th a goal—stopped cold by the Bears’ monstrous All State LB!!! 

BASKETBALL— Coach Franklin’s team sought tough competition in Holiday Tournaments– 

Loss to Patrick Henry (Roanoke, VA) LOSS 58 – 62 

Norfolk Collegiate (Norfolk, VA) LOSS 60 – 71 

Lincoln County (TN) WIN 64 – 35 

Fairdale (KY) WIN 66 – 59 

HOCKEY—Coach Parker’s skaters lost to Malvern Prep, but 3 Bears earn All Star game honors.  

SWIMMING—COACH Ros splash next year 

TRACK—Coach Calahan’s runners hit the track next year 

WRESTLING—Coach Katz, who is a recipient of the Shirley Povich Landon Coach reporter award many times, fills us in on his squad:

We start up our IAC competition on next Friday January 5 with a home quad at 5 pm against St. Stephens St. Agnes, Bullis, and St. Albans.

Thanks to all of those who committed themselves to represent Landon over the last two days at a very competitive tournament at Damascus.  It was a hybrid tournament where we wrestled 6 duals over 2 days (we went 4-2).  The individuals results then placed the top 4 wrestlers in each pool in an individual 8 man bracket tournament. We qualified 8 wrestlers into the tournament. The team ended up in 4^th place out of 16 teams.  In addition, we had 10 JV wrestlers competed  and they also did very well.  

Here is a summary of the place winners. 

Varsity 

106 Dennis Leary top 8 qualifier 

113 John Koegel top 8 qualifier 

120 James Hanley Champion

126 Seamus McNamara 4^th place 

132 Thavi Ponnaperuma top 8 qualifier 

175 Nate Furgeson 2^nd place 

190 DP Pope 3^rd place 

215 Tiller Smith 3^rd place 

JV 

Luke Yang Champion

Jack Junker Champion

Louis McNamara Champion

BEAR TRACKS

Cross Country/Track and Field -2 

• Asim Hakim-Florian, L’23 Colgate University – next match 2024 

• Sam Cohen, L’23, Tulane University- thanks to Coach Hunt 

Football Coach 

Rugby 

THANKS TO COACH OBERG, we learn that TY REYES eschews his Bear sports, football, wrestling and lax-to-rugby, to concentrate on Penn State Rugby. Doing well!!! 

Brian White, L’23, Robert Morris (3-2) season complete 

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; the 11/28 US Open meet 

Ethan Tun L21 Carleton– The Knights are in Puerto Rico TRAINING!!! 

Edward Ha, Hamilton 

Golf -4 

Pro -2 

Morgan Egloff L’15working his way up thecircuit, ended in the money  

John Kalavritinos L’17 playing the developmental tour.earned a paycheck on the Minor league tour.

College -2 

Charlie Bundy L’22 College of William & Mary Tribe, next match March 

John Bates L’23 Rhodes College- next match March 

BEARS playing College Winter Sports

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

BEARS CLIMBING IVY HOOPS

(conference stats only)

(2023 Season) 

#2 Ivy PPG Kino Lilly, Jr. (Brown) 19.4

#5 Ivy FT% .750 

#1 Ivy MPG 38.0

#7 Ivy PPG Tyler Perkins (Penn) 14.9

#5 Ivy FT% .821

#3 SPG 1.7

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44 L11, Regio Emilia Div. (8-6, 14 GP, 20.2 min/g., 6.8 pts/g, 3.8 reb/g, 1.7 asst/g, 0.8 blk/g 

• College Coach-1

Christian Webster L09, VaTech Assistant Coach (9-4) 

• College-5

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (7-5): #2 junior— played 38.0 min/g, 19.4 pts/game., 1.5 APg , 2.0 reb/game– worked out at the Barton Center over the holidays 

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (4-10) #10 junior; 13 GS, 1 Game Injured, 38.0 min/g*, 18.8 pts/g*, 2.6 assists/g*, 2.5 reb/g, 0.8 steal/g; *leads team;  

Mike Gray, L22, Lynchburg (6-5), #30; 7 GP, 54 min,  2.1 ppg, 0.7reb/g,  

Tyler Perkins, L23 University of Pennsylvania (8-5); #11, freshman; 13 GS, 30.4 min/g, 15.4 pts/, 2.3asst/g, 6.3 reb/g, 1.6 steals/g*; *leads team. Playing #3 Houston 

Christos Palkogiannis, L23, California Institute of Technology (1-9), #33, FRESHMAN; 2 GS, 2GP, 16.25 min/g.  4.5 ppg, 1.8 reb/g, 1.2 asst/g, 1.2 steal/g 

HOCKEY 11 

Professional Ice Hockey-2

Sam Anas L’ 11, #77 HC Dinamo Minsk KHL (25-3-1-1-3); #77 43 games team tied for 1st, 14 goals and 16 assists 

Patrick Giles L*18 #36 Charlotte Checkers (14-11-3-0) played in 24 games, 4goals 2 assist

Div. III Men’s Hockey Coach-1

Kim Weiss, Assistant Coach for Trinity College (her alma mater) men’s team, 7-2-0 ranked 14th in Div. III 

College Club Coach and Pro Hockey -1

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University Div II Hockey Coach  

Division I–1

Matthew Brille #19; L*20; Brown (4-8-1) #19-5 games played 1 assist, 2 shots, 3 blk

• Division III–3

Oscar Smink L’21; Amherst College Mammoths (5-3-0): #6 – 2 GP, 2 shots, 1 blk

Ethan Goldman, L’21; Connecticut Camels (3-5-0) #13 

Kareem Al-Azem L*20; Connecticut College Camels (3-5-0) #7 played 8 games 1 G 4 A 8 blk

• Development Hockey 2

Will Lawrence L*22, #88 NAHL Johnstown Tomahawks,assistant captain, 15-13-1-1; #88 30 GP  8 G, 17A 2nd in team assists and 2nd T in points

JH Lages L*21, #6 South Shore Kings USPHL Premier 1GP 

• Club Hockey

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 

ATLANTIC COAST COLLEGIATE HOCKEY LEAGUE 

WRESTLING 

David LaPrade, L23, Williams College (0-4)