BearSportsNews Sunday Edition 3.24.2019

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Mar 24, 2019

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Green Spring Bear

HIGHLIGHTS

Bears within the White Rocks
- Swimmer places #2 in Nationals
- Senior tennis player wins Mid Atlantic
- Baseball wins and heads to FL
- Wrestling gets their IAC Cup–finally
- The ULTIMATE multi-faceted Bear—award-winning violinist and baseball CATCHER/CF/PITCHER
Tracking Bears OUTSIDE THE White Rocks
- Morgan Egloff was first spring tournament
- Patrick Giles and his Flying Eagles heading to the Hockey East CHAMPIONSHIP
- The Ruggers are back [perhaps the most difficult sport to track]

INSIDE THE WHITE ROCKS

Swimming

Nationals BOYS 500 FREE – FINALS 1st: Luke Maurer (Nasa Wildcat)- 4:21.05 2nd: Jacob Rosner (Unattached)- 4:21.32

Wrestling

The 2019 IAC tournament champions cup was presented to the team recently

Spring Sports

Baseball (3-1) Beat Good Counsel 13-4. Now in Florida

Congratulations to violinist Andrew Gray ’21, who finished in first place at the annual Landon Symphonette Concerto Competition Concert funded by the Downing Family Foundation. Andrew is currently concertmaster for Landon’s advanced strings ensemble and studies with Lya Stern.

He also plays a mean catcher/CF/pitcher for our JV baseball team.

Golf on Spring Break

Lacrosse (2-3) lost in a tough battle with Gonzaga 8-10 on Spring Break

Outdoor Track and Field on Spring Break

Rugby (1-1) against Gonzaga B only down 6-12 with 26:00 left, the final score was 6-24

Tennis (0-2) Senior captain Sachin Das wins a big Mid Atlantic tournament Monday in Williamsburg

BEAR TRACKS

Basketball (6)

Professional Basketball (1)

Darion Atkins (L 11) Hapoel Holon, 18-5 1st place Israeli Basketball Premier League; 23 games, 13.3 ppg, 7.1 reb., Champions League 7-6.

College Coaching

Coach Christian Webster, (L09) #16 Va Tech (25-8) Assistant Coach

Professional Indoor Football (1)

Terrence Fullum (L11) DL San Diego Strike Force (0-3)

Ice Hockey (7)

College (3)

Patrick Giles (L*18) Boston College (14-212-3), Eagles upset Providence in Hockey East 1^st round (2-1). Patrick played in those winning games, in the 3-0 shut out of #3 UMass, in the 2-3 loss and THE 3-0 win in the semifinals–onto Hockey East Trophy battle

AHL

Sam Anas (L11) Iowa Wild (34-20-7-5; 80 pts; 3^rd in conference. Played 50 games, 13G, 21 A, 3 GWG

Spring Sports

Baseball (2)

Randy Bednar Jr., (L17) University of Maryland Terps, 12-10; RB: hitting .244, 22 hits, 19 rbi’s, 14 runs, 4 hr’s, .974 fielding

Patrick Lightner, (L16) Marist College Red Foxes (8-12)

Golf (4)

John Kalavritinos, (L17) Bucknell University (0-0) JK: 3/24 1^ST MATCH

Evan Katz, (L17) Duke University. Team 7^th at Valspar 7th — Evan Katz (77-77-74=228; +15)

Mike Blasey, (L15), Davidson College – Team after two rounds tied for 2^nd,

Morgan Egloff (L15) Rollins was 4^th at the Georgia College Bobcat Invitational. ME fired a two-under 68 on Tuesday and vaulted 10 spots to the top of the leaderboard, winning by two strokes.

Lacrosse

BLTF will be posted early in the week.

Rugby 🏉 (7)

Tommy Baldwin L18, Bucknell Bison no Spring Schedule published yet.

Joel Desroches L18, Ithaca College, Bombers, no Spring Schedule published yet.

Aiden Howe L18, St. Mary’s College of California Gaels -played Navy on 3/23 and all that was reported was that the ball was delivered in true military style