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Thank you Nachum! This Week on JM in AM’s Tuesday Morning Sports Update, Long Island rivals renew pleasantries on both courts and JV Basketball sees a championship rematch. Good Morning I’m Elliot Weiselberg
The last time that DRS and Flatbush JV met on the hardwood, it was under the bright lights of the Max Stern Athletic Center at Yeshiva University for last year’s Junior Varsity Championship showdown. The game that played out saw DRS’ trio of big men, Gabriel Leifer, Akiva Ackerman and Abie Perlow stimy the Falcons with their paint presence and Yoav Deutsch light up the scoreboard to blow Flatbush out 43-25. Entering this year, the Wildcats, a starkly different team without the aforementioned four, and the first quarter showed just how big of a difference that would be. Without the cache of centers, DRS had no answer for Flatbush big-man Abie Rosow who dropped 10 in the first as the Falcons staked themselves to a 20-7 lead. In the second, it was Kevin Haddad leading the offense putting in 11 of Flatbush’s 15 in the quarter to open up a 21-point margin at the half. DRS would cut the gap to about 14 in the 4th but could never get closer as Flatbush closed out the 60-42 victory. Haddad paced the Falcons with 29 points and 7 rebounds, Rosow finished with a double-double, 14 points and 12 rebounds. The Falcons remain undefeated on the season.
That would not be DRS’ only game on the week. The Wildcats would meet up with the HAFTR Hawks to renew their annual rivalry. In fact, ALL DRS teams and all HAFTR Hawks teams did battle over the last 6 days and the results were dead even. JV Basketball would go to the Hawks 45-36 to keep HAFTR undefeated, keeping pace with Flatbush whom we just mentioned and North Shore. JV Hockey would swing the way of DRS. The Wildcats opened up a 2-0 lead before the Hawks mounted a comeback to tie the game up at 2. Halfway through the second, though, the Cats went up for good when Elie Levine broke the tie on the way to a 5-2 DRS win.
The marquee matchups on both days were the varsity battles. In basketball, it was Abie Perlow’s new team, the HAFTR Hawks winning the battle of the undefeated, as both had come in with 0’s in the loss column, but needing Overtime to do so 46-42. Perlow and Jonathan Greenberg paced the Hawks with 13 apiece. Gabriel Leifer tallied the game high, 16, for DRS in the loss. In Hockey, again, the two teams, the tops in the division and last year’s championship rematch. Coming into the game, the DRS seniors had never lost a game at home in The Greenhouse to HAFTR, and further hadn’t lost in the Greenhouse at all in 4 years. The game went scoreless for the first 22 minutes until another former DRS turned HAFTR player Evan Feder beat DRS goalie Ari Guttenmacher for the late period tally. HAFTR would add another goal in the third by, yet another former DRS-now HAFTR player Sam Schechter to go up 2-0. Ethan Felder would cut the lead in half and DRS carried the play in the final minutes but goalie Ryan Gluck and Hawks held on for the 2-1 final, ironically, the same score as HAFTR’s win in last year’s championship game.
One further JV Basketball note. Last night, two major Western powerhouses, SAR and Frisch met up with SAR winning 55-52 in Overtime. We will have more information on that game for you, this Sunday on the Court Report.
Want to find out more about the past week in Yeshiva League Sports? For more Yeshiva League action, tune in tonight to the encore presentation of the Court Report at 7PM on the Nachum Segal Network, Nachumsegal.com.
And that was your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
Chag Sameach everyone!
