BEARSPORTSNEWS SUNDAY EDITION

DECEMBER 17,2023

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE IN THE BEAR COMMUNITY 

There will be no 12/24/2023 edition; Bear’65 will be with family that week 

HIGHLIGHTS

TOMMY may be Landon’s first Football College All American in ~10 years. His Panther results fill 8 different categories; he was NESCAC opponents’ #1 backfield menace. 

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS—

• Hockey convincingly defeats big MAPHL opponent and ties WaPo’s #1 team

• Basketball wins three in a row

• Wrestling off of great showing at Mad Mats, a wrestler featured in a national article, and they are at Beast of East with some wins

• Swimming wins a triangular

• Indoor Track had wins against GP

BEAR TRACKS

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

• FOOTBALL—2 coaches 2 FOOTBALL COACHES, 1 NFL J-E-T-S, App State Div.  

• 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 player  

• WINTER SPORTS

• BASKETBALL–5

• I PRO in Italy 

• I COLLEGE DIV. I COACH

• 2 DIV. I {both leading teams} and 3 DIV. III PLAYERS– all played 

• HOCKEY-10

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

• COLLEGE: 1 Div. I played; 3 Div. III 2 played 

• 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

BASKETBALL— Coach Franklin’s team beat Woodberry Forest at Orange, VA 49-48 in a thriller, then beatPotomac 72-58 and topped the week off with a 64-59 victory over Flint Hill. Walt Whitmen next week 

HOCKEY—Coach Parker’s skaters won at Calvert Hall 5-3 and then tied WaPo’s #1 DMV hockey team 1-1 St. John’s College High School off to test vs. Philadelphia teams. 

SWIMMING—COACH Ros had a triangular meet– Maret School, Potomac School 75 – 42

TRACK—Coach Calahan’s runners hit the track December 8th v. GP and  

Men’s Varsity 800 Meters  

Finals 

Men’s Varsity 4×400 Relay  

Finals 

Thanks to Coach Hunt for the results. 

WRESTLING—Coach Katz’s mat men had another double weekend where we sent teams to two different competitions.  Varsity A participated in the Mad Mats Tournament hosted by Montgomery County Public High School, Magruder.  Varsity B went to the Mercersburg Dual Tournament in Pennsylvania.  

At MAD MATS, Landon came out on top, the boys sealed the victory in the consolation finals when three of our four wrestlers won tough matches for 3^rd place.  Joe Papalia 126, Theo Shockey 132, and Mike War all wrestled very tough opponents and came out on top.  Freshman Domingo Escudero 113 made it to the consolations finals but fell to a tough opponent to take 4^th place.  As a back up to Will Levy, Louis McNamara 144 placed 6^th.  We had two wrestlers not place in the top 6, but both won matches to contribute to the team victory: Ryan Zand 150 and Owen Kelly 165.At 175, Senior Nate Furgeson made it to the semi-finals, but he did not come back the second day because he was sick.  He defaulted to 6^th place. We had five in the finals, and walked away with TWO CHAMPIONS.At 106, freshman DENNIS LEARY made his first finals in his career in high school. While he kept it close, he got pinned late in the 3^rd period. Senior JAMES HANLEY pinned his opponent in 48 seconds.  He won the most pins in the least amount of time award, as he wrestled a total of 1 minute 56 seconds total in three matches.  At 157 Junior CONNOR KOEGEL made his first final, but unfortunately ran into a freshman buzz saw from Bullis. At 190, Junior DP POPE faced a tough adversary from Good Counsel. He was winning by 4 points with about 30 seconds left and got caught on his back and pinned.  To wrap things up, Junior TILLER SMITH kept his streak alive when he pinned his guy in the first period.  Tiller has now won this tournament 3 years in a row!

This victory was a team effort.  We had three starters out of the line-up and everyone stepped up and did what they needed to do to earn points.  Every wrestler contributed and every wrestler represented the school well. 

From Case Anderson: Despite the challenges of fielding a team due to injuries, sickness, and other commitments, the boys who participated did a great job. Against Kiski, we were tied 36-36 heading into the final match with KEDREN SMITH coming up. He was 0-2 prior to it, but he stuck his guy with a (wait for it…) cross face cradle in 30 seconds. Landon W, 42-36.  

Against Covenant Life, we were down 24-41 with three matches remaining. Coach Oberg and I recognized the potential if we somehow got 6 pts in each of the next three matches. At 150, HUTTON BANKS was down by 5 or so in the 2nd period, but turned his guy for the fall. Then they (I guess because of injury) unexpectedly forfeited at 165 and 175. Just like that, Landon W, 42-41.

Special recognition against CLS to Sam Curtis (who mauled his guy, WBF), Banks (WBF), and Leary (who was banged up and got beaten by technical fall by the guy who beat him in the finals at St. James…but he fought off his back the whole way to avoid the pin, and that one point made the difference). Recognition to Luke Yang pulling an upset against Kiski with the fall that gave Kedren the chance to win it for us. 

3-1 on the day, each wrestler got their hand raised at least once (some by forfeit, but still a win). Despite the rough start, a good day overall! 

James Hanley’s Two Goals

Article in National HS Wrestling website (click on link for full story) 

“’My goal was to put it all out there and finish my moves well,’ said Hanley, a returning Interstate Athletic Conference champion and runner-up at last year’s Maryland Independent Schools’ State Tournament. ‘That, along with being able to get in some significant amount of time out there on the mat.’ 

But Hanley was so efficient at the former that he failed to achieve the latter, pinning all three of his 120-pound quarterfinal, semifinal and championship bout rivals in less than a combined less than two minutes. In succession, Hanley registered falls in 30, 38 and 48 seconds, the latter being Magruder sophomore Sava Makarov.” 

As this report is being posted, the Bears are at the prestigious 2023 Beast Of The East Wrestling 

Second round win: French (DP) Pope (Landon School) 23-6 won by fall over Hunter Pearson (Skyline) 6-4 (Fall 3:28) 

First round: James Hanley (Landon School) 35-6 won by fall over Braulio Lobo (Mountain View) 6-6 (Fall 1:23) 

French (DP) Pope (Landon School) 22-6 won by fall over Carlton Crooms (New Kent) 0-3 (Fall 1:28) 

Tiller Smith (Landon School) 36-11 received a bye () (Bye) 

They are still battling and the format of these tournaments provide matches after losses.

BEAR TRACKS 

Cross Country/Track and Field -2

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

• Sam Cohen, L’23, Tulane University- next match 2024 

Football Coaches 2

Coach Padalino, the younger at App State (7-5) loss to Troy in Sun Belt East v. West Championship. Next week at Avocados from Mexico Cure Bowl against Miami (OH)

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 

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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

• Professional –1 

Darion Atkins #44 L11, Regio Emilia Div. (7-5, 12 GP, 20.8 min/g., 7.0 pts/g, 3.8 reb/g, 1.7 asst/g, 0.8 blk/g 

• College Coach-1

Christian Webster L09, VaTech Assistant Coach (7-3) 

• College-5

Canin Reynolds L ‘20 Amherst College Mammoths (7-3): #2 junior— played 59 min., 4 pts., 6 A, 8 reb; next game 12/29 

Kino Lilly L21 Brown Bears (3-9) #10 junior; 11 GS, 1 Game Injured, 38.3 min/g*, 18.8 pts/g*, 2.5 assists/g, 2.6 reb/g, 0.72 steal/g; *leads team;  

Mike Gray, L22, Lynchburg (5-4), #30; 27 min, 4 GP, 1.2 ppg, 0.6reb/g,  

Tyler Perkins, L23 University of Pennsylvania (7-5); #11, freshman; 13 GS, 30.4 min/g, 15.4 pts/, 2.3asst/g, 6.3 reb/g, 1.6 steals/g*; *leads team. 

Christos Palkogiannis, L23 (?), California Institute of Technology (1-7), #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 (20-3-3); #77 37games team tied for 1st, 11 goals and 11 assists

Patrick Giles L*18 #36 Charlotte Checkers (13-10-1-0) 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  

• 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 (4-7-1) #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, 15-11-1-1; #88 28 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 

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

ATLANTIC COAST COLLEGIATE HOCKEY LEAGUE 

Owen Calderone L’23 LSU club  

WRESTLING 

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

LACROSSE