Glouberman Tournament tips off in LA

The Jewish Hoops America season gets into full swing tomorrow in Los Angeles with the start of the 8th annual Steve Glouberman Z’L Basketball Tourmament at Shalhevet.

The girls tournament features the defending champs, the host Firehawks, along with last year’s runner up Berman Hebrew Academy, Frisch, HA Miami, Maimonides, Ramaz, SAR and YULA. The 10-team boys field includes those schools plus defending champ TABC and Valley Torah.

Nine girls and six boys named All Jewish Hoops Americans last year are playing in the tournament, including JHA Players of the Year Yalee Schwartz of Shalhevet and Johny Dan of Valley Torah.

Preliminary games to determine seeding, two for each team, will be on Wednesday and Thursday. The boys 7-10 play-in games, boys and girls quarterfinals and the girls semifinals are on Friday. The girls championship game and boys semifinals and championship are on Saturday night.

The tourney tips off at 2:30 pm PT with Shahevet taking on TABC in a rematch of last year’s boys championship game. The first girls game features Shalhevet and Ramaz at 4:30.

For the full schedule and to follow the action live, go to https://www.shalhevet.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=490206&type=d&pREC_ID=1463555

And check back here each day for recaps of all the games.

Yeshiva League Results - Boys & Girls - Oct. 31, 2022

Boys

Frisch 58 Kushner 15

The Cougars (2-0) jumped out to an 18-3 lead and were never threatened, as the Cobras managed just two free throws in the second half in their season opener. Isaac Schiffman led Frisch with 20 points and Alex Zakheim had 9.

Girls

Frisch def Kushner

National Results - Boys - Oct. 30, 2022

Elliot Torkieh A’H Magen David Tournament

Championship

DRS 34 North Shore H.A 22

The Wildcats 5-0) opened strong, leading 8-1, but cooled off in the second quarter and trailed 12-10 at the half. The Stars struggled offensively from there, managing just 10 points in the final two quarters as DRS gradually pulled away.

Stephen Olshin led DRS with 13 points and Alex Millstone added 10. For the Stars (3-2), Jonah Carmili had 8 points.

YESHIVA LEAGUE

Frisch 85 Ohr Yisroel 53

Alex Zakheim scored 27 points over the first three quarters and Sammy Zelenetz added 12 as the Cougars rolled in the first game of the MYHSAL season. The Flames kept it close in a high scoring 1st quarter trailing by only 25-19. But they were outscored 15-4 in the second before Frisch extended its lead after halftime. Asher Goldberg led Ohr Yisroel with 13 points, Shmoozie Rosen added 12 and Reuven Rozehzadeh had 11.

Magen David denied chance at fifth straight tournament title

A Long Island team will take home the championship trophy at the Elliot Torkieh A’H Magen David Tournament this weekend after DRS and North Shore H.A. won their semifinal games Thursday night.

Magen David’s 47-44 loss to DRS in the nightcap means the host Warriors will not have a chance to “5peat”.

The Wildcats rallied from seven down early in the 4th quarter before Stephen Olshin put them ahead 45-44 on a deep 3-pointer w 1:05 left. Ari Saffra hit a layup with :32 left but missed the ensuing free throw, giving the Warriors a flurry of chances in the final seconds but none of their shots at a tie hit the mark.

Saffra and Shuey Bernstein each scored 12 points and Isaac Solomon added 10 for DRS (4-0).

Mark Sarder led Magen David (3-1) with 15 points and Asher Melamed, who had averaged 25 points a game in the tournament, scored 10.

Magen David has won the tournament 10 times since it began in 2001, including each year since DRS won in 2015. The tournament was renamed this year in memory of Torkieh, a former Magen David student.

In the earlier game, SAR (3-1) led by eight at halftime but managed just eight points in the second half and fell 37-30 to North Shore (3-1).

The championship game is at 6 pm Sunday and will be streamed live at https://events.locallive.tv/school/magen-david-yeshivah

Top 4 seeds advance to Magen David Tournament semifinals

The seeding held up Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the Elliot Torkieh A’H Magen David Preseason Tournament with all four top seeds winning.

In Thursday’s semifinals, #1 SAR will play #4 North Shore H.A. and #2 DRS will take on #3 Magen David.

SAR 54 Ramaz 48

Akiva Schanzer, who missed Sunday’s preliminary games, led the top-seeded Sting (3-0) with 13 points and Jonah Sokol added 10. Milan Kushner scored 19 points, Sam Ostad had 13 and Eden Bracha 12 for the #8 Rams (1-2).

DRS 62 Hillel 51

Stephen Olshin led the #2 Wildcats in scoring for the third straight game, finishing with 21 points, and DRS (3-0) pulled away from the #7 Heat (1-2) in the final four minutes. Ari Saffra added 15 points and Isaac Solomon had 10. Elliot Braha led Hillel with 27 points and Moses Smeke scored 13.

Magen David 59 YDE 28

The outcome was never in doubt as the #3 Warriors (3-0) jumped out to a 14-2 1st quarter lead over the #6 Thunder (1-2) and extended it to 31-9 at the half. Asher Melamed led the hosts with 28 points.

North Shore H.A. 55 JEC 37

The #5 Thunder (1-2) broke a halftime tie with the first bucket of the third quarter but never led again as the #4 Stars (2-1) pulled away in the fourth to beat JEC for the second time in the tourney. David Orbach led North Shore with 19 points, Jonah Carmili added 12 and Jordan Zarka had 10 points and 15 rebounds.