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.
Straight ahead on the Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, Varsity Basketball completes DRS’s “triple crown” and we preview the 2025 Red Saracheck Memorial Tournament.All that and more, good morning, I’m Elliot Weiselberg.
The 2024-2025 Winter sports season will be known as the “Year of Green” in DRS. One week after knocking off TABC for the JV Hockey championship and HANC for the Varsity Hockey championship, the Wildcats completed the trifecta taking the Varsity Basketball championship with a 66-63 Overtime win over the TABC Storm. Overtime did not seem in the cards early on at the Max Stern Athletic Center as DRS opened up a 16-3 lead by the end of the first quarter. TABC would chip away at the lead and close the gap in the 3rd before Joe Aaron and Tzvi Tsaidi opened it back up for DRS and then again in the 4th behind Eyal Kinderlehrer’s 15 point frame and Yonah Mandel’s 3-pointer with 30 seconds to go to tie the game at 55. In the extra session, DRS scored the first 8 points, and despite a run at the line for TABC to close to within one possession, a pair of free throws from Aaron, his 23rd and 24th points of the night would be the finisher. TABC would hit a 3-pointer as time wound down, but without needing to inbound the ball, DRS ran the clock out, taking home their first title since 2016.
The Wildcats will now set their sights on taking home the grand prize as, YU will be home this week to the 2025 Red Saracheck Memorial Tournament. 20 teams will converge at the MAC to vie for the crown including 9 from the Yeshiva League. Fresh off their win, DRS will be the highest ranking from the Metropolitan area at #3 behind two California teams, YULA at 1 and Shalhevet at 2. Action starts tomorrow night when Brooklyn rivals Flatbush and Magen David compete in a play-in to enter into the tournament. The rest of the action will start Thursday and can be seen on Macslive.com.
On a down note, the JV championship between Flatbush and Ramaz that was supposed to precede the Varsity championship has been postponed due to unfortunate circumstances within the Flatbush basketball family over the weekend. We here at the Sports Update send our condolences and secondarily, will keep everyone updated as to when and where the game will be played.
Next week, we’ll recap the Saracheck tournament and turn our calendars over to the Spring sports that are already in the thick of the action.
And that was your Tuesday Morning JM in the AM Sports Update, I’m Elliot Weiselberg
