This week’s spotlight game takes us to the Ben Porat Yosef back gym with Bellcar Electric taking on the Triumph Hotels team. Bellcar Electric got the scoring started with Leora Wasserman’s jumper. Triumph Hotel’s Ariella Friedlander answered back with a basket of her own. Deadlocked at the end of the first, Triumph Hotels turned up the defensive pressure and seemed to swarm the ball on defense. On offense they didn’t let up either, led by Emme Wallach with a game high eight points. With the win, Triumph Hotels clinches a finish of no worse than the number two team, when the playoffs begin.

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]