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. This week long time JM in the AM staff member Robert Katz guest hosted JM in the AM so he took up the mantle and presented Elliot in Nachum’s stead. Spread the word and tune in for the latest Yeshiva League hockey and basketball information, as well as, the occasional update on other sports happenings in the Jewish world. For a deeper look at Yeshiva Sports check out Court Report, also hosted by Elliot, on Sunday evenings at 7:00pm ET (replay on Tuesdays from 7-8pm ET). You can read the transcript of this week’s update below.
Straight ahead on the Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, TABC Varsity Hockey takes Round one of the “Route 4 Rivalry,” and Flatbush varsity basketball takes the Emunah Rubenstien basketball tournament. Good morning, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
It’s always a fun time for North Jersey when Frisch and TABC get together, and it’s even more special when it’s a Motzai Shabbos matinee. Saturday night saw the first time that the two schools would meet in any sport this season and the intensity lived up to the billing in this Varsity Hockey showdown. In a penalty filled battle, the home-team TABC would walk away victorious 5-2 to remain undefeated, 5-0, on the year. Shua Naor scored twice, Daniel Levy, Yair Knoller and Sam Eisenstadter each added one in the Storm win. Bryan Alter and Sammy Wietschner tallied goals in the Frisch loss. TABC is now one of only two undefeated teams remaining in the Varsity hockey league. The other, HAFTR, remained undefeated, knocking off Flatbush 4-2 last week to improve to 6-0.
In JV hockey, the defending champions continue to slide. SAR is now winless in their last 4 games, having lost to Frisch and only managing a tie against TABC coming into this past week. Last Wednesday, the Sting lost 5-0 to DRS, Jakey Friedman compiling the shutout victory for the Wildcats, and last night, the Sting fell to JEC 6-2, dropping SAR to 1-3-1 on the season.
In varsity basketball, last week marked the second annual Emunah/Rubenstein Varsity basketball tournament. In the semifinals, Flatbush and TABC emerged victorious with a championship meetup at SAR on Sunday evening. The Storm would hold a 12 point lead early, but the Falcons would reverse course in the second half outscoring TABC by 17 to capture the tournament trophy 54-47. Kevin Haddad led all scorers with 28 points on the afternoon, earning Tournament MVP honors for Flatbush. Also on the week, HAFTR upends Frisch by 1, 57-56 and Sam Reich’s 14 points give Ramaz their first win of the season, dropping Kushner, 62-38.
In JV basketball, HAFTR and SAR pick up wins to stay in a pack of 5 undefeated teams left in the JV Basketball league. The Hawks picked up a 44-38 victory over North Shore while SAR pounced on Hillel 71-34.
For more in depth coverage of all Yeshiva League action, tune in to tonight’s episode of the Court Report on the Nachum Segal Network. On tonight’s encore episode, we take a look at all of the action from the first six weeks of the regular season and bring you up to date on all of results, standings, stats, upsets and interesting notes about the opening weeks of the 2015-2016 Yeshiva League Season. All that and more, tonight at 7pm, only on the Nachum Segal Network, nachumsegal.com
Also, before we go, we here at the Sports Update would like to wish Mazal Tov to my predecessor and the original voice of the JM in the AM Sports Update, Isaac Benishai and his wife Amanda on the birth of a baby girl.
And that was your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, Happy Thanksgiving everyone
