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Stephanie Greenberg (Cedarhurst, N.Y.) was named to the All-Tournament Team, as the Yeshiva University women's basketball squad placed third over the weekend (Nov. 17-18) at College of New Rochelle's Blue Angels Tip-Off Tournament.
First-year head coach
Nesta Felix's Maccabees dropped an opening night decision Saturday to Albertus Magnus College, before capturing her first collegiate victory with an 87-40 triumph Sunday afternoon in the consolation round.
Saturday: Albertus Magnus 107, Yeshiva 42
Junior forward
Rebecca Yoshor (Houston, Texas) led the way for the Macs on opening night, as she notched a double-double with 19 points (6-for-13 FG, 7-for-8 FT) and 11 rebounds. Senior frontcourt mate,
Naomi Gofine (Toronto, Ont.) also pulled down 11 boards (all on the defensive end of the floor) for YU.
Sunday: Yeshiva 87, Cooper Union 40
Junior guard
Haley David (New York, N.Y.) led all players with 27 points (6-for-12 3FG), while also completing a double-double with 10 caroms. Greenberg, who also starred this past fall on head coach Brendan Donoghue's cross country team at Yeshiva, approached a double-double with 21 points, nine steals and seven assists. Yoshor (9 pts., game-high-tying 12 reb.) was one point shy of a double-double, while Gofine played a fine all-around game with eight points, 12 rebounds, four steals and five assists.
The Maccabees used a commanding 77-46 advantage on the glass to bolster sizeable edges in points in the paint (42-24) and second-chance points (32-4). YU also converted 42 Cooper Union (0-2) miscues into 43 points.
Yeshiva is back in non-conference action Tuesday night, when they travel to Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., for an 8 p.m. tip-off at Bard College. Bard will provide a pair of multimedia outlets for fans to follow the contest on the internet, including
live stats and a
video webstream.