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The Hurricanes dominated in the second extra frame to win their season opener. The Lions are 1-1.
Rapids now 2-0. It was the league opener for the Rams (1-4).
The Cobras are 1-2 in the league, 1-5 overall. Heat now 0-2.
Eagles (2-1) beat the Sharks for the second time in a week.
MIDATLANTIC
Asher Falk scored 47 points for the Cougars (0-5).
YESHIVA LEAGUE
Alex Zakheim scored 25 points and Sammy Zelenetz added 14 to lead the Cougars (3-0; 6-2). Hudi Kalish led the Wolfpack (1-1) with 17 points, Yisroel Winter had 14 and Moshe Weiner scored 12.
Sruli Pariser hit a baseline jumper at the buzzer to win it for the Lions in their season opener. The Thunder (1-1; 2-3) had their biggest lead of the 2nd half at 36-31 with just under 2 minutes to play. With :29 left the Lions’ Gavriel Rudman banked in a 3-pointer to tie the game at 37. Akiva Sapieka hit one of two free throws for JEC with :05 left. Rudman got the inbounds pass, drove to the 3-point line and dumped it down to Pariser whose turnaround hit nothing but net. Rudman led MTA with 16 points and Pariser finished with 10. For JEC, Eitan Speyer had 18 points.
The DRS Wildcats and Hustle & Heart each won their four games as they took the boys and girls titles at the Auburn Experience Tournament in Alabama.
The tournament and Shabbaton was organized by NCSY to celebrate this summer’s trip to Israel by the Auburn men’s basketball team and its coach Bruce Pearl.
The boys MVP was Isaac Solomon after he scored 20 points to lead the Wildcats to a 71-26 win over Katz YHS in the final. Naomi Sigman was the girls MVP. Hustle & Heart beat HAFTR 56-18 to win the title.
Coby Brand scored 11 points to lead the Cobras. Johnny Katz led the Stars with 18 points.
A long way to travel to play your neighbor. Stephen Olshin led the Wildcats with 11 points.
Judah Pardau scored 20 points, Ashir Rosen had 17 and Yuval Ovaknin added 10 for the Storm.
Stephen Olshin had 10 points for the Wildcats.
Yuval Ovaknin led the Storm with 10 points. Noah Freundlich had 11 for the Hawks.
Eliana Leitner scored 18 points and Laura Nagler added 14 for the Wildcats.
Daphna Steinmetz’s 20 points led four players in double figures for Hustle & Heart. Sari Gross added 16 points, Naomi Sigman had 12 and Simona Goldberg scored 10.
Naomi Sigman and Sari Gross each scored 11 points for Hustle & Heart and Simona Goldberg added 10.
Play-in Games
Sam Siri led the Hawks with 10 points. Ryan Miller had 13 for the Stars.
Barbara Sasson led the Kings with 13 points and Allison Bender added 11.
SEMIFINALS
BOYS
Aiden Buchbinder scored 18 points and Stephen Olshin added 12 for the Wildcats.
Yuval Ovaknin had 14 points for the Storm, Judah Pardau added 12 and Ashi Rosen scored 10. Sam Siri and Jacob Zwiebel each had 10 for the Hawks.
GIRLS
Daphna Steinmetz led Hustle & Heart with 24 points.
Elisabeth Gurtman led the Hawks with 15 points. Eliana Leitner had 13 points for the Wildcats.
FINALS
BOYS
Isaac Solomon scored 20 points to lead four players in double figures as the Wildcats raised their season record to 9-0. Ari Saffra added 16 points, Stephen Olshin had 14 and Alex Millstone scored 13.
GIRLS
Daphna Steinmetz scored 19 points and Naomi Sigman and Sari Gross each added 13 points.
Eliana Wolfson scored 16 points and Shana Strohli had 15 rebounds to lead the Warriors (1-4). It was the season opener for the Storm.
Gabe Bodokh scored 27 points and Reuven Drazin added 10 to lead the Heat (2-0). Noam Elbaz had 8 points for Maimo of the North in their season opener.
The Wildcats (1-1) spoiled the Bulldogs’ season opener.
Elliot Braha scored 22 points and the visiting Jersey Heat (1-0; 2-2) spoiled the season opener for the Manhattan Heat. Eddie Kassin added 12 points for Hillel and Moses Smeke had 11. Ben Eskenasi and Aden Trubowitz each scored 9 points for Heschel.
The Warriors (2-0; 5-1) stormed out to a 24-3 lead and were never threatened. Jesse Cohen scored 10 points and Jack Franco had 9 steals to go along with 8 points. The Hurricanes are now 0-2 in the league, 0-4 overall.
In the first game in the Ravens’ new gym the Stars (2-0; 5-2) scored the first 20 points. David Orbach led North Shore with 12 points and Jonah Carmili added 10.
The Cougars improved to 2-0 in the league and 6-1 overall. It was the Heat’s season opener.
The host Shalhevet Firehawks won both the boys and girls titles Saturday night/Sunday morning at the 8th annual Steve Glouberman Z’L Basketball Tournament in Los Angeles.
The girls team, which trailed only twice in the entire tournament in winning all five of its games, defended its title with a 60-55 win over a valiant Frisch (5-1) squad that rallied from a 20-point 3rd quarter deficit.
The boys rallied from five points down in the final half minute and beat Valley Torah 64-63 when Aiden Bitran hit three free throws with :09 left. It was the fourth straight championship game appearance for the Firehawks but their first title since 2018.
Yalee Schwartz and Arielle Grossman each scored 18 points and were named the Co-MVPs of the girls tournament. Samantha Pruzansky, the winner of the Steve Glouberman Award for sportsmanship, led the Cougars with 14 points and Paige Ratner scored 12.
Avi Halpert was the MVP of the boys tournament. He scored 12 points in the championship game and averaged XX for the tournament.
After the game was tied at the half, Shalhevet led most of the second half, including by 52-42 with under six minutes to play. The Wolfpack then went on a 21-6 run, highlighted by an Ethan List 4-point play that broke a 55-55 tie. Shalhevet was down 63-58 but Bitran hit a corner trey with :20 left to bring them to within two. List then missed two free throws and Bitran coolly hit his three after he was fouled on another shot from the corner. Valley Torah missed a final shot from the top of the key.
Natan Sellam led Shalhevet with 20 points and Bitran had 15. Noam Mayouhas scored 21 points for Valley Torah, Gabriel R’Bibo added 14 and List had 10.
The boys All Tournament Team was Ben Farkas of H.A. Miami, Alex Zakheim of Frisch, Mayouhas, Bitran and Sellam. Shalhevet’s Elijah Stern won the boys’ Steve Glouberman Award.
Named to the girls All Tournament Team were: Kira Heumann of YULA, Eliana Wolfson of H.A. Miami, Jenny Kagan of Berman H.A., Galil Neuer of Frisch and Talia Tibi of Shalhevet.
BOYS SEMIFINALS
Avi Halpert scored 20 points, Aiden Bitran added 16 and Natan Sellam had 12 as the Firehawks (4-0) held off a Cougar rally. Shalhevet led by 16 midway through the third but Frisch whittled the deficit down to one, 46-45, with five minutes left in the game but could never take the lead.
Noam Mayouhas’ 19 points led four players in double figures for the Wolfpack (3-1). Gabriel R’Bibo added 14, Johny Dan had 12 and Ethan List scored 11. The Sting (6-2) led by one at the half but gave up the lead early in the 3rd quarter and never got it back. They were led by Itai Berkowitz’s 16 points and 13 from Andrew Helft.
BOYS CONSOLATION
Yonah Luber’s 3-pointer at the buzzer won it for the Storm (1-3), who rallied from a 13-point halftime deficit. Luber finished with 9 points and Tzvi Schreiber led TABC with 15. Ben Farkas led the Warriors (1-3) with 13 points, David Saka added 12 and Owen Ebner scored 10.
Alex Gabbay scored 28 points and Yishai Rosenblatt added 18 as the Panthers (3-2) beat the Cougars for second time in the tournament. Asher Falk led Berman (0-4) with 24 points.
Raanan Gewurz scored 11 points and Nathan Weinstock, Eitan Bessler and Avi Schwartz each added 10 to lead the M-Cats (2-2). Nathan Haber led the Rams (3-5) with 17 points.
GIRLS CONSOLATION
Berman H.A. YULA
Lindsey Feit led the Rams (1-3) with 22 points, Chloe Gad added 13 and Molly Hiltzik had 12. For the M-Cats (0-4) Natalie Neusner scored 20 points and Leah Kaplan added 11.
Megan Horowitz scored 18 points and the Sting (2-2) rallied from an early 4th quarter deficit. Eliana Wolfson and Elizabeth Ebner each had 15 points for the Warriors (0-4).