This week’s spotlight game takes us to the Ben Porat Yosef gym where the Wolverines were playing the Grand & Essex team on court number one. Liana Kahan got the scoring started for the Wolverines, as she collected six of her game high 13 points in the first quarter. The Grand and Essex girls hung tough and tied the game at the end of regulation on the shoulders of Orli Scharf”s 12 points (an impressive 6 of 9 from the free throw line). The score remained tied at the end of the extra frame, and would be recorded as a tie.

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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