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 Everyone!
Today on the inaugural Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update of the 2022-2023 sports season, the action has already kicked into high gear in all leagues and we’ll bring you up to speed on the opening month of the Winter Sports season. All that and more straight ahead. Good Morning, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
We’ll start out in JV Hockey where three teams remain undefeated. DRS has breezed through their first 5 games, defeating all divisional opponents, including a dominant victory over Rambam, last night. The Wildcats will play two games in early December before a championship rematch with TABC on New Year’s Day. Out in the West, The Storm, themselves remain undefeated at 3-0, but are joined by a resurgent SAR team, who has already taken on one challenge, defeating Flatbush 3-1 in a rematch of the pre-season Martin Weiselberg Memorial tournament championship. Also in the thick of things out west are MTA and Ohr Yisroel, both with 2 wins as the season heads toward the half-way point.
Moving up to Varsity, the defending champion Frisch Cougars lead the way at 5-0. A 3-0 win over last year’s semifinalist HANC has headlined the early season and sets them up for a showdown with DRS this coming Sunday. Right on the Cougars heels are TABC. The Storm enter the week at 4-0 but will meet up with SAR in Riverdale on Thursday night. The Sting have hit some hard luck over their first 3 games, losing their first two game of the season, against Kushner and DRS in overtime. Speaking once again of DRS, the Wildcats lead the East with 4 wins, but the early upset of the season involved DRS on the losing end, dropping a 3-2 overtime contest to YDE. YDE currently sits at 4-1, right behind DRS and just ahead of HANC, both of whom do not have favorable schedules compared to the Thunder.
Moving over to basketball, North Shore has rolled out to a 6-0 record in the East with very few close contests in the early half of the season. The way things are going, the East may come down to the very last game of the season, where the Stars will face currently undefeated DRS. The Wildcats are at 3-0, but have the upper-hand over the North Shore, having defeated them in the finals of the Magen David preseason tournament. Out West, a tight race at the top with last season’s runner up SAR out to a 5-0 start, with Frisch and Hillel behind them at 4-1 and defending champion Ramaz at 3-1, their only loss, a season opening championship rematch with the Sting in Riverdale.
In JV, five teams remain unblemished as SAR and TABC leas the West at 3-0 with Frisch behind them at 2-0. That will not be the case a week from now as the Cougars and Storm meet up Saturday night in the first end of the Route 4 rivalry in Teaneck. Out in the East, DRS and Magen David are 2-0, but both still trail behind North Shore and HAFTR in the win column as the Stars are currently 4-1 and the Hawks 3-1.
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And that’s your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
