Every Tuesday morning at 7:20 ET Nachum Segal will present Elliot Weiselberg on JM in the AM to deliver the Yeshiva League Sports (YLS) Update. Tune in for the latest Yeshiva League Spring Sports information, as well as, the occasional update on other sports happenings in the Jewish world. The transcription for this morning’s update is below.
Good Morning Nachum!
Today on the Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update Cross-conference matchups highlight the week in Varsity Hockey, while intra conference rivalries take center stage in Boys Varsity Basketball and Frisch and SKA stay hot in Girls Varsity Basketball. All that and more straight ahead. Good Morning, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
We’ll open up with Girls Varsity Basketball where Frisch and SKA have opened up identical 5-0 records to lead the West and East respectively. The Cougars take a 2 game lead in their division picking up wins over 2nd place SAR by 4 and 3rd place Maayanot by 11, while the Sonics have the upper hand over 4-1 Flatbush, handing them their first loss 51-37. Flatbush will get the chance to rebound this coming Saturday night when they play HAFTR. The Hawks have won 4 in a row since dropping their season opener to SKA, taking 3 of those wins, over Central, North Shore and Solomon Schecter in the last week.
In Boys Varsity, rivalries were the order of the week, with the most notable one being Frisch’s 61-48 win over TABC. The win puts Frisch behind SAR at the top of West. SAR put an exclamation point this week of their own, drubbing DRS and knocking off JEC, a tough end to the week for JEC, bookending a win over rival Kushner with losses to Ramaz and SAR. In the East, Magen David continues to roll, with a 27 point win over HAFTR and a 50-37 win over YDE behind identical 24 point efforts from Senior Asher Melamed. The next stop for the Warriors will be a home matchup with rival Flatbush this coming Saturday night.
Moving over to hockey where the past two days saw two key inter-divisional contests with results that will make for an interesting 2nd half. Frisch stays undefeated, knocking off DRS 4-0 on Sunday. Senior Andrew Srulowitz posted Frisch’s 2nd shutout in a row, having also knocked off MTA 7-0 earlier this week. The game starts a tough stretch for the Cougars where beyond MTA tonight, Frisch will play SAR on Thursday, Kushner next Thursday and then a home- and-home with TABC to round out 2022 in games that will likely determine the top of the West. Speaking of SAR, the Sting seem to have found their way back on track in the nick of time, having won 3 of their last 4, including a 5-2 win over HANC last night. A scrappy contest between the two sides, SAR’s Morrison Dolfman broke a 2-2 tie with just under 5 minutes to go to give SAR the victory. Now at 3-1-0-2 the Sting can insert themselves into the conversation with Frisch and TABC as they square off with each over the coming week. In other action, Isaac Dweck scores twice for Flatbush, including the game-winner in an Overtime thriller with YDE to improve the Falcons to 2-1. Flatbush will look to state their case in the playoff race over the next 6 days squaring off with Magen David twice and HAFTR, both of whom sandwich Flatbush on the current standings-board.
In JV Hockey, DRS has opened up a 6 point lead on the rest of the East, but not without a scare from Frisch in a 4-3 win that saw the Cougars erase 3 DRS leads but could not overcome a fortuitous carom on a Josh Lampert game-winner late in the 3rd period. And Flatbush improves to 2-2, taking their 2nd win in a row, 3-0 over YDE behind an Omri Adaf shutout in YDE last Wednesday night.
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And that’s your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
