Box Score NEW YORK, N.Y.— The Yeshiva men's basketball team opened its 2013-14 season on Monday and was defeated by Hunter College, 63-49, at the Max Stern Athletic Center in front of a large crowd.
Yeshiva was led by Benjy Ritholz with 15 points on 7-for-14 shooting. He added four assists, four rebounds and two blocked shots.
Shlomo Weissberg added nine points on 4-for-5 shooting with a game-high 13 rebounds. Meanwhile
Shelby Rosenberg and Yisroel Feld added nine points each.
Hunter was led by Frankie Drayton with 28 points, nine rebounds, six steals and two blocks. Chris Garcia chipped in with 14 points and four rebounds for the Hawks.
Hunter led most of the way in the first half and was up as much as eight in the opening period. The Hawks led by that margin with 6:34 to play as they led 23-15. Yeshiva though used a 13-0 run to take its first lead of the contest and the Maccabees were up 28-23 with 1:04 left before halftime.
Hunter outscored the Maccabees 5-0 over the final sixty four seconds of the half, and the game was tied 28-28 at halftime.
The two teams went back and forth in the opening stages of the second half. But Hunter took the lead for good breaking a 36-36 tie with a 12-4 run to pull ahead 48-40 with 9:23 to play.
From there Yeshiva pulled to within five, but never closer. Hunter built its lead up to double digits with less than two minutes to play en route to the win.
After a first half that saw neither team go to the free throw line much (YU was 4-for-8, Hunter was 6-for-6), Hunter went to the charity stripe 22 times in the second half and made 18 free throws, while the Maccabees were 2-for-2.
Yeshiva shot 47.7 percent (21-for-44) from the floor, while Hunter connected on 35.4 percent (17-for-48).
The Maccabees committed 19 turnovers compared to eight for Hunter, and the Hawks held a 26-5 advantage on points off turnovers, including 13-5 in the first half and 13-0 in the final stanza.
Yeshiva is back in action on Thursday for a home contest against Baruch College at 8 p.m.
