Box Score NEW YORK - Senior
Gil Bash (Tel Aviv, Israel) picked up a double-double with 22 points and 10 assists, while junior
Shlomo Weissberg (Skokie, Ill.) added 15 points and 10 boards Tuesday night at Max Stern Athletic Center, leading four Yeshiva University men's basketball players in double-figure scoring, as the host Maccabees won their third-consecutive game with an 85-79 triumph over Skyline Conference foe, College of Mount Saint Vincent.
YU (4-5, 4-2 Skyline) shot 60 percent from the field (27-for-45) for the third-straight contest, and the nation's leader in 3-point field goal percentage only improved its mark by going 8-for-11 from beyond the arc. Head coach Dr. Jonathan Halpert's side also passed the ball well on the evening, assisting on 21 of its 27 made field goals.
Senior forward
Dovie Hoffman (Tarzana, Calif.) tied for the game-high with 23 points for the hosts, and now sits at 983 for his four-year career -- just 17 shy of becoming the 25th player in Yeshiva history to reach the 1,000-point mark. He went 8-for-13 from the field, and was perfect on all three attempts from downtown.
Sophomore
Benjy Ritholtz (W. Hempstead, N.Y.) rounded out the double-digit-scoring Macs, going for 13 points on the night.
The opening 20 minutes of play featured six ties, and the visiting Dolphins (4-4, 1-2 Skyline) led by as many as seven five minutes in. With the visitors up 18-13 with 10:37 to go in the frame, Yeshiva ripped off 10 straight points, including triples by Ritholtz and junior
Eitan Selevan (Teaneck, N.J.), to take a 23-18 margin with 7:31 showing. Mount Saint Vincent tied the score twice in the final three minutes of the half, before Ritholtz's jumper at 1:05 sent the hosts into the locker room up 32-30.
The teams traded the lead six times in the first 1:43 of play in the second half, and Weissberg's jumper in the paint started a nine-point stretch for YU, who took a 45-37 lead with 16:31 remaining. Their lead got as high as 14 (57-43) on a Ritholtz triple from the right wing with 12:25 to go, before the Dolphins 19-4 spurt of their own to retake the lead at 62-61 on a single free throw with 6:20 left. Hoffman's trifecta on the next possession put the Macs ahead for good; a 12-for-16 performance at the free-throw line over the final 2:00 of play iced the game for the Yeshiva, which now has its first three-game winning streak since late in the 2009-10 campaign en route to the Skyline Conference Championships.
YU is back in Skyline action at the Max Stern Athletic Center Thursday night (Dec. 13), when it plays host to conference-leading Old Westbury (4-2, 2-0 Skyline) at 8 p.m.
