This week’s spotlight game takes us to the back gym at Ben Porat Yosef for the last game of the regular season. Team Toppan Village was looking to upset the heavily favored PressONE.net team as they head into the playoffs. The game was an offensive explosion that one spectator described as “the highest scoring and most exciting game he has ever seen in the second grade girls division.” The Toppan Village attack was lead by Lielle “speedy” Skoszylas’s game high 12 points, along with half a dozen from Eliana Adler and Emunah Koningsberg. PressONE.net stuck with Toppan Village through the first three quarters—down five points at the end of the first and got to within one point in the second, behind Libby Fischer’s seven points and Nili Klappers 3/3 from the free throw line. The final quarter was all Skoszylas and Toppan Village. The two teams meet again next Sunday in round one of what I am sure will be an exciting playoffs.

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, but divisions are filling fast and will close out soon. The boys league is slated tip at the end of December, if you have not yet signed up please do so asap 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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DATE	TIME	TEAM	TEAM	GYM
Second Grade Girls
Sunday December 3, 2017	12:00 PM	(2) PressONE.net – Voice & Internet	(3) Toppan Vintage	BPY Small
Sunday December 3, 2017	1:15 PM	(1) Triumph Hotels	(4) Bellcar Electric	BPY Smal
Third and Fourth Grade Girls
Saturday December 2, 2017	6:15 PM	(5) Washington Avenue Pediatrics	(12) Columbia Cardiology	RYNJ 1
Saturday December 2, 2017	6:15 PM	(8) Petit Chic	(9) The Jedi Knights	RYNJ 2
Saturday December 2, 2017	6:15 PM	(7) Embroidme	(10) Chestnut Holdings	BPY Court 1
Saturday December 2, 2017	6:15 PM	(6) Nina Eizikovitz-Links Residential	(11) Statestreetsmiles.com	BPY Court 2
Sunday December 3, 2017	2:30 PM	(1) Dougies BBQ		BPY Court 1
Sunday December 3, 2017	2:30 PM	(4) Grand & Essex		BPY Court 2
Sunday December 3, 2017	3:45 PM	(3) Wolverines		BPY Court 1
Sunday December 3, 2017	3:45 PM	(2) Camp Shalom		BPY Court 2
Fifth and Sixth Grade Girls
Sunday December 3, 2017	9:00 AM	(5) Rockwell Management	(12) Jason M. Suss D.M.D.	BPY Court 1
Sunday December 3, 2017	9:00 AM	(6) www.TenaflySmiles.com	(11) Chopstix	BPY Court 2
Sunday December 3, 2017	10:15 AM	(7) Tree Point Play	(10) Areyvut	BPY Court 1
Sunday December 3, 2017	10:15 AM	(8) Kosher Experience	(9) Sharsheret	BPY Court 2
Seventh & Eighth Grade Girls
Saturday December 2, 2017	7:30 PM	(3) Tilem and Associates	(6) Malka Abrahams Links Residential	RYNJ 1
Saturday December 2, 2017	7:30 PM	(2) LYNLY Insurance	(7) Center for Dermatology	BPY Court 2
Saturday December 2, 2017	8:45 PM	(1) Oil Tank Services	(8) Net@Work	RYNJ 2
Saturday December 2, 2017	8:45 PM	(4) Balanced Body Rehabilitation	(5) Akari Therapeutics Plc	BPY Court 2
Sunday December 3, 2017	11:45 AM			BPY Court 2
Sunday December 3, 2017	1:00 PM			BPY Court 2