This weeks spotlight game takes us to Ben Porat Yosef. Outside it was raining cats and dogs, but those of us lucky enough to be inside the dry gym, were treated to a great game. On court number one, Sharsheret was wearing red and Judaica House was in white.

The game was close throughout, around the end of the second period it looked like Judaica House was pulling away, but the sharp shooting of Sharsheret’s Shana Markowitz, with eight points, and Dova Moskowitz, with six points, tied the game up at 24 each and we headed to the fourth overtime game of the day. In the extra frame, Elisheva Piontica sank a jumper from the corner, giving Sharsheret a 28 -26 lead with 37 seconds to play.

Judaica House raced up the court and with the clock at 32 seconds, found sharp shooter Tifi Teitelman for her most important two points of the day, as she tied the game at 28. Sharsheret headed back the other way, but was denied by the Judaica House defense. Judaica House got the ball with five seconds on the clock. The Judaica House coach called timeout to draw up a play that was designed to prevent a second overtime. The play was designed to get the ball to high scorer Nechama Adler and she delivered with the final two points of her game high 15. The buzzer sounded as her shot cleared the cylinder. The win sent both teams home with identical 2-2 records and all in attendance feeling good about witnessing such an exciting game

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 

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