Tuesday 10/20 Sr. League Giants Vs/ Cardinals

In the early slot on Tuesday, the Cardinals (2-1-1, 5 points) squared off with the Jets (1-4, 2 points). The Cardinals were looking for a victory after an exciting tie with the Giants, while the Jets were just aiming to break their 3 game loosing streak.

At the end of a back and forth, even first period, Rafi Selevan (7th Grade, Yavneh) scored with 40 seconds remaining to put the Cardinals ahead 1-0.

The second period was just a continuation of the first, with both teams playing well and evenly. With 7:53 left in the period, Andrew Teigman (6th grade, Moriah) hit Ami Rosenfeld (7th grade, Moriah) with a nice pass and Rosenfeld put it past Alex Kershenbaum (7th grade, Moriah) to knot it up at one apiece. Five minutes later, Odi Haramati (7th grade, Yavneh) scored unassisted to give the Cardinals the lead again, 2-1.

Heading into the third period with a one-goal advantage, the Cardinals were thinking defense. Their gameplan was to not let the Jets get shots on their forehand. After executing this plan for 4 minutes, the Cardinals continued to play great defense, led by Barak Shachnovitz (8th grade, Hillel) and Russel Oppenheim (8th grade, Ramaz). Despite executing this plan, Rosenfeld scored on a nice backhand shot from the basketball three-point line on the left side to tie the game at two. With 3:28 remaining in the period, #77 scored on a pass from #10 to give the Jets their first lead of the day. The Cardinals had come so far in this game and decided that they weren’t going to lose. Selevan scored his second goal on a cross pass from Haramati to bring the game back to where it started, a tie game. It look as if this game would be headed into OverTime but Aryeh Berman (7th grade, Yavneh) and Max Gruber (7th grade, Yavneh) had something to say about that. With 7 second left until OverTime, Berman managed to find Gruber, who netted his first goal of the season to give the Cardinals the W.

After a long fought evenly matched game, the Cardinals got out of this one with another win to double their win total and go to 2-1-1. Although the Jets played a great game, they got nothing to show for it in the standings. They dropped their 4th straight game after winning the first to drop to 1-4 on the season.