Every Tuesday morning at 7:20 ET Nachum Segal presents Elliot Weiselberg on JM in the AM to deliver the Yeshiva League Sports (YLS) Update. Tune in for the latest Yeshiva League Sports information, as well as, the occasional update on other sports happenings in the Jewish world. You can read the transcript of this morning’s update below.
We have reached the end of the 2023-2024 Winter sports season! Straight ahead on the Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, two basketball championships highlighted by bitter rivalries and divisional pride. All that and more coming up, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
The Yeshiva League reached the conclusion of its version of March Madness this past Sunday as four teams converged onto the Max Stern Athletic Center on the Campus of Yeshiva University to crown the 2023-2024 JV and Varsity Basketball Champions. The JV finale kicked off the day with All-West foes Frisch and SAR meeting up in what had become a championship staple showdown in the mid- 2010s. The first half was a close affair that saw Isaac Stepner drain a buzzer-beater three to give the Cougars a 7 point lead at the break. The third quarter would see a changing of the tide, though as SAR racked off a 16-5 run capped by a buzzer beater three of SARs by Evan Goldberg and the Sting would barely look back as they rolled to a 59-47 victory.
The marquee matchup of the afternoon was the Varsity finale, an all-Brooklyn showdown between #2 Flatbush and #1 Magen David. Two close contests throughout the season were echoed early on as Flatbush took a 10-9 lead into the 2nd quarter and a 6 point advantage into the half. Flatbush looked to pull away early in the 3rd, but a 9-3 Warrior run to end the quarter closed the gap to within 2 and a minute a half into the 4th took the lead. Flatbush would eventually regain the lead, but with 42 seconds left, Marc Sardar give the Warriors a 44-43 lead. The Warriors would have control of an inbounds with 12 seconds left and a chance to ice the game, but a Jacob Hadded steal gave Flatbush life and an ill-advised inbounds foul with 9 seconds left put Ronnie Chaya at the line for two and a chance to win the game. Chaya would only hit one of two and the game would go to overtime tied at 44. The extra session would see a 2-point Magen David lead with 1 minute to go but that would be as close as the game would get. Missed free throws and a lid on the Flatbush basket doomed the Falcons as much as the Magen David foul shooting as the Warriors went on to win the Battle for Brooklyn finale 57-48 for their first championship since 2017-2018.
With those two seasons now in the books, we have come to the close of the 2023-2024 Winter Sports season. The Sports Update will now turn to spring sports including soccer, boys volleyball, girls hockey and of course, the diamond sports as we roll toward June and the end of the school year. We will be on break next week but will return in two weeks with all of the spring action.
And that was your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
