BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 2.17.2019 [posted 2.15]

HIGHLIGHTS

• Bears within the White Rocks

  • Hockey beats Bullis and then lost a 1-2 game to Prep

  • Wrestling finished 8th at METROS

  • Swimming and Dive placed 10th

  • Squash finishes 3rd 

  • Hoops ends a winning season

• Tracking Bears playing college sports

  • Not the normal report (Bear65 is in Connecticut watching grandsons play hockey against each other) the text which is italicized indicates that it has not been updated from last week

    • found one new club hockey player

• SPECIAL BEAR TRAX

JOE PAOLETTA ‘10, a Landon lacrosse captain and Cornell 4 year player, was promoted to the rank of Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Joe was commissioned as an officer in 2014 and has had two deployments to Iraq.

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

These Bears do not hibernate

Winter Sports

Basketball (15-9) ended a successful season with a close loss to GP 51-54; the team overcame a 1^st half deficit of 6 by outscoring the little Hoyas in the 2^nd. Canin Reynolds led the Bears with 17 points.

Hockey-(12-1-6) Bears beat Bullis 6-0 in the IAC semifinal and lost to Georgetown Prep 1-2 in the finals. An early lead led the Hoyas to ice the puck almost very time that they were pressed defensively.

Squash -3rd place league finish, JV 2^nd

Swimming and Diving –finished 10th out of 32 schools at the Washington Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, the school’s best finish since 2002. Jacob ‘20 finished second overall in two events, 200 and 500 free.

Indoor Track & Field

Wrestling –WaPo #8 (18-5)

From Coach Katz via twitter

Landon ended placing 8th place overall  Metro Tournament . Axel 2nd,   Lorenzo 2nd, Matt 5th, Jonny 2nd, Jelani 2nd, and Miles 4th.

BEAR TRACKS

DEFERRED REPORT UNTIL NEXT WEEK

Basketball (6)

Professional Basketball (1)

Darion Atkins (L 11) Hapoel Holon, (13-4 1^st place Israeli Basketball Premier League;Champions League 7-6. lost to Nanterre 62-74 DA 21:36 min, 8 pts, 8 reb,

College Basketball (2)

Aaron Byrd (L’15) Augusta University (16-5), beat Flager 72-70 , 25 min. 10 pts, 4 reb., 2 assts; Beat Columbus State87-68 15 min, 5 pts, 1 reb. 2assts.

Tone Cockrell (L’17) Marywood Pacers, (15-8) lost to Neumann 66-84, started 29 min, 1 pts.5 assts, 1 stl. Beat Marymount 63-51 15 min, 5 pts, 1 reb. 1 assts, 1 blk, 2 stlollege 63-69, 21 min, 1 pt, 5 reb, 3 assts.

College Coaching

Coach Christian Webster, (L09) #11  Va Tech (18-5) Assistant Coach

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

Ice Hockey (7)

College (3)

Connor Meike (L’12) Williams Eph Men 14-6-2. Beat Middlebury  2-0, played, 2 shot, 2 PIM; tied Middlebury 2-2 O/T started

Christian Meike, (L’14) Michigan Wolverines (12-11-6)

Patrick Giles (L*18) Boston College (10-13-3), BEAT HARVARD played, 2-1 SCORED 1^ST BC GOAL penalty; lost UMassLowell 0-3 played 3 shots,.

• College Club(1)

Jacob Ruttenberg (’15), Tufts Club,

Alex Norwinski (’15) Liberty University

AHL

Sam Anas (L11) Iowa Wild (26-16-4-3; 59 pts ;2^nd   in conference. Beat San Antonio 5-4S/O

Swimming (2)

Sky Cui, L18, Vassar College, 3-5, won the Skidmore Sprint over 4 other teams. Sky 5^th in 50 back a PB, 4^th in 100 back

Max Peraza, L18, Sewanee: The University of the South, 3-3. 2/13 SAA championships