This week’s game of the week goes back to the gym at Ben Porat Yosef where Toppan Vintage was matched up against Triumph Hotels. Triumph Hotels was looking to build on the momentum from last week’s thriller and Toppan Vintage was in search of their first victory of the season. The game was neck and neck from the first possession. When one team scored, the other answered with a bucket of their own. Triumph Hotels was paced by Emme Wallach’s six points, in a great game that had the spectators on the edge of their seat with every possession. The score was tied and both teams had scoring opportunities in the final seconds, but when the buzzer rang at the end of regulation, both teams were tied at 13. In overtime, both teams were going up and down the court with good looks at the hoop, but it looked like the game was headed for a tie, until Emunah Konigsberg banked a jumper, giving her the final two of her game-high eight points and team Toppan Vintage, their first win (and a thrilling one at that).

The Mitch Gross Basketball League commemorates Mitch Gross a”h while serving as a high-caliber recreational basketball program for Bergen County boys and girls in second through eighth grades and high school boys. The league focuses on teaching basketball fundamentals to players at all levels and the value of working together as a team. The league is an enthusiastic and affordable program open to residents of Bergen County including Bergenfield, Englewood, Fair Lawn, New Milford, Teaneck, Tenafly and other surrounding Bergen County towns—and also includes participants from Passaic County, Manhattan, Riverdale and Rockland County. After general expenses, all profits of the league will be donated to local charitable organizations in memory of Mitch Gross, a”h.

Registration is now open for the boys league, set to tip mid-December. https://www.mgbl.org/SignUpPart1.php. For more information about the league or to sponsor a team please email [email protected]. You can a follow us every week right here in the Jewish Link of New Jersey and on Facebook @MitchGrossBasketballLeague. We would love to print pictures of your stars, please send pictures of your MGBLers in action to [email protected]