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. The transcription for this morning’s update is below.
Thanks Nachum!
Welcome back everyone to another season of the Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update! The 2024-2025 season is off and rolling and we’ll break down the first two weeks of November straight ahead. Good Morning, back for yet another yeshiva league season with you, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
We’ll start out in Varsity Hockey and nothing like a good “Route 4 Rivalry” matchup to kick things off in the early season, unless you’re a Frisch fan. The TABC Storm opened up what they hope is a rebound season, coming off of a defeat in last year’s final with a 5-1 victory over the Cougars, Senior Aiden Rauzman with the hat trick for the Stom. TABC is currently 2-0 and in a tie with Kushner and SAR. The Sting took a key victory last night at home over HANC 3-1 to keep clean in the loss column. Scoreless into the 3rd period the two teams traded quick goals in the period and remained tied until Senior Bennett Burgida put home the game winner for SAR. The early season has not been kind to HANC at the moment, having dropped their 2nd in three nights after a 6-3 loss to DRS on Motzai Shabbos. DRS opened a 4-0 lead and although HANC was able to bring the game to within 1, DRS popped home two goals in the third to improve to 3-0.
In JV Hockey 7 of the 8 teams have kicked off their season. Out West, Frisch and SAR are 3-0 and 2-0, respectively, after knocking off Eastern conference teams. Frisch and HAFTR went to overtime Saturday night in Paramus with Charlie Butler ending the contest for the 3-2 Cougar victory and then continuing with another home win over YDE, and in a statement win, SAR went into DRS last night and doubled-up the home team Wildcats 4-2. The last team to get into the mix this season will be TABC who kick off their season tomorrow night in HAFTR.
Varsity Basketball has some unfamiliar teams at the top in the early goings. The East sees Rambam at 2-0 after home wins over Magen Abraham and Kushner. Their schedule will get a bit tougher, though, starting this week with a Thursday night contest in Flatbush. Out West, MTA is 2-0 after wins over Kushner and JEC. They’ll get to revel in their current position for a bit as West teams have a fairly light schedule over the next week, but the inter-division contests are powerful ones as tonight sees Frisch travel to DRS and HAFTR host SAR and Monday night, Flatbush and TABC will tangle with one team being excused from the ranks of the undefeated.
Finally in JV Basketball, most teams have opened up their season with no team playing more than 2 games. Barkai, DRS and Magen David are all 1-0 in the East, while JEC out West is 2-0 with dominating wins over MTA and Heschel, followed by TABC and Ramaz at 1-0. With 14 contests between tonight and our next update, there should be plenty of movement around the leaderboards.
And that was your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
