11-13-2011 | Yeshiva Atlanta Lions Roar past Westchester Wolverines, 51-41 avoid Cooper Basement

11-13-2011 | Yeshiva Atlanta Lions Roar past Westchester Wolverines, 51-41 avoid Cooper Basement

By Cooper Invitational Staff

The Westchester Wolverines took on the Yeshiva Atlanta Lions for 7th place in Tier 2 Sunday morning at the Memphis Jewish Community Center. Rolling in late, the blurry eyed Lions, rubber legged from lack of sleep, revved up quickly, won the tip, and scored seven points in the first 3 minutes of play. The Wolverines fought back to end the first quarter with the Lions up 11-9.

In a run and gun second quarter, the Lions extended their lead with 3 pointers from Ratner and Goodfriend and layups from Kadosh and Weissman. Westchester’s Scherbain hit 2 free throws and Cymrat stuffed in a layup to end the half with extending the lead to 25-14.

Kodosh came out strong in the second half with a quick layup, a finger roll, and 2 free throws. Matt Werner of the Wolverines came alive in the third quarter scoring 9 points, bringing the Wolverines to within 8.

Aaron Solomon of the Lions scored the first basket of the final quarter followed by a beautiful reverse layup by Kalnitz. Scherbain of the Wolverines continued to lead his team stuffing a layup and hitting an NBA 3 pointer. But it was too little, to late and the Yeshiva Atlanta avoid the Invitational basement, winning 51-41 of the Westchester Wolverines. Yondi Kadosh was the high scorer for the Lions with 20 points and Shlomi Scherban led the Wolverines with 15 points in their defeat.