BearSportsNews Sunday Edition

BearSportsNews Sunday Edition

February 9, 2020

In Honor of the up-coming All-School Black History Assembly

• Bears WITHIN THE White Rocks

  • Hockey on the way to tournaments shuts out an MAPHL opponent and then ties #1 St. John’s at 0:28.5

  • Basketball playing exciting, smart hoops

  • Wrestling doing well at the Melee on the Metro

  • Squash beats Woodrow Wilson

  • Swimmers placing Bears in the Metro finals

  • Track 2nd at the Montgomery County Private School Championship

  • College news offers and commitments

• Bears OUTSIDE THE White Rocks

  • One Bear Alumnus playing pro hoops now in Germany

  • Three Bear Alumni playing college hoops; one leads his team in almost all offensive scoring categories

  • Four Alumni are playing hockey at four levels pro to club

    • One Bear Hockey Alumnus is #2 scorer in AHL

    • Another Bear returns to ice after injury and scores 1st point in Bean Pot

  • Two Alumni are swimming at college level

  • Two Alumni are on wrestling rosters

  • Thirty-four Alumni are on lacrosse rosters

• INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

WINTER SPORTS

• Basketball (8-13) lost to GP 52-57 and then Bullis 49-62

• Hockey (10-2-2) shut out Calvert Hall 8-0 and then tied WaPo #1 St. John’s 3-3 on a goal @ 0:28.5 {picture may be from an earlier play, but it shows Will Lawrence getting crushed as he tipped the puck.}

• Squash (1-4) beat Woodrow Wilson 5-2

• Swimming (1-2) from Head Coach Chris Ros.

  • Rosner ‘20 makes finals in the 200 and 500 Freestyle – top seed! Gonna swim fast tonight!!!

  • 400 Freestyle Relay in the finals tonight!

  • 200 Freestyle Relay – 1st alternate for finals tonight!

• Indoor Track: Landon takes 2nd at the Montgomery County Private School Championships

• Wrestling (4-1) : from Coach Katz: Lopez moves to finals in Melee on the Metro. Senior Matt Amitay working top 6. Last night he earned his 100th win. First year freshman will Abramson in the top eight and working for higher place.

COLLEGE RECRUITING NEWS

Congratulations to Cooper Johnson (@owu_mlax), Tyler Smith (@DavidsonFB) and Tommy Kenary (@MiddFootball) who will continue their athletic careers in college! https://bit.ly/2UDMTZx#LandonForever#NationalSigningDay2020

BEAR TRACKS

Basketball (4)

Professional Basketball (1)

Darion Atkins (L 11) now with Brose Bamberg (10-7) 8^TH IN easyCredit BBLeague ? GP,? min.,? ppg, ? rpg, ? bpg.

College Basketball (3)

Tone Cockrell (L’17) Keystone College (9-12) #5 junior, started in all games, averaging 34.4 min., 20.5 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 124 assists and 38 steals—leading the Giants all but one of those categories.

Daraun Gray (L’19) Loyola (11-13) #24, freshman, 6 GP  8 min.

Justin Patterson (L’18) Towson (14-11) #44, freshman, 5 GP  22 min., 2.0 ppg. 5 reb. 1 assist. 1 block 3 steals

Golf (2)

Morgan Egloff L15, Rollins College, Tars, play on February 10

Evan Katz, L17, Duke University, off until February 16

Hockey (4)

AHL Hockey (1)

Sam Anas L11 Iowa Wild (28-14-3-3) 48 GP  15 g 35 a = 50 pts #2T in AHL

USPHL Hockey Elite division (1)

Ty Morton L’19 Hampton Roads Whalers (23-13-4-0-1-1) Ty: 19 games 9-4 1.91 GAA 0.936 save % 4 SOs

College Hockey (2)

Patrick Giles (L*18) #4 Boston College -(16-8-1) 10 GP, 3G 2A, 2 Short Handed Goals back in line-up and scored the 1^st goal in the Bean Pot, but hurt his shoulder again—requiring surgery.

Alex Norwinski L’15 Liberty University #1 in the Southeast ACHA Div. 2 Hockey (24-3-1) 28 GP points 9 G 24 A 4PowPG, 1GWG  team beat Maryland 7-0 and 8-0 and Alex earned an assist.

Rugby (9)

Brendan McLenaghan L19 Tulane ROSTERED spring season next

Tommy Baldwin L18, #17 Bucknell Bison 6-1 rostered

Aiden Howe L18, St. Mary’s College of California Gaels beat Cal Poly ROSTERED

Wesley Pan L16 VA Tech, Hokies ROSTERED 1st team all Chesapeake Conference #9 position

Parker Swensrud L18, #15 NSCO (1-0) Denver University, Pioneers,4-0 beat Colorado School of Mines 31-17 ROSTERED

Jonathan Hsieh L17 University of Pennsylvania Quakers

Max Spiritos L17, placed 3rd in the B1G tournament with Max scoring a key touch 45-10 ROSTERED

Culver Van Vleck L14 player of the match for Potomac Exiles

Will Snyderwine L07 passed up a career as an NFL PK after leaving Duke to play rugby for Washington Irish

Swimming (2)

Sky Cui, L18, Vassar College, 7-3

Max Peraza, L18, Sewanee: The University of the South, 2-4 lost to Rhodes College 50-189

Wrestling (2)

Jonny Gherman L’19 Ursinus College Bears (8-3) #157  lost in the 1^st round of the Will Abele Invitational, won the next match with a pin and then in the tournament format lost to a teammate in the next round.

Axel Giron L’19 York College (9-8) #125

Lacrosse (34)

This week’s John Nichols’ Bear Lax Trax Fax coming soon.

Army: Drennan Green

Bucknell: Colin O’Brien

Cleveland State: Justin Conner

Colgate: Griffin Brown

Dartmouth: Brendon Gallagher, Brett Gallagher

Fairfield: Alex Hagerup (injured)

Furman: Michael Abizaid

Jacksonville: Andrew Mitchell, Hunter Sells

Johns Hopkins: Joey Epstein*

Loyola: Cam James

Maryland: Justin Shockey, John Geppert, Matt Kopp

Michigan: Zach Johnson

Navy: Thomas Evans*, Shane Corcoran

Penn State: Nate Buller

Richmond Will Bou

St. Joseph’s: Thomas Halm

Towson: Mo Sillah

Virginia: Ryan Pride

Division III

Catholic University of America: Sean Feldman

Colby College: Miles Tonkel

Colorado College: Max Becker

Gettysburg College: Mitch Laughlin, Billy Banfield

Oberlin: Farley Price

Ohio Wesleyan: Guy King

Salisbury: Brian Menendez, Jace Menendez

Tufts: Kyle Amitay, Garrett Kurtz

Washington College: Will Oliver

*= team captain, bold = L’19