What a wild past few days this has
been!!! We headed up to Sharon on Thursday for the first game of the four-day
Maimonides School Invitational Basketball Tournament in Memory of Leland
Gelman, a Maimonides School alum (Class of 1982), to whom sports meant a great
deal. You can read more about him here:
This year’s line-up featured four boys’
teams:
There were also four girls’ teams
competing: Maimonides School,
Farber Hebrew Day School,
Ma’ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls
(Teaneck, NJ), and North Shore Hebrew Academy,
but the gymnasium is not sufficiently large to accommodate all the guests for
all the games, so we only watched “our” team.
Here are the outcomes of the four games
the M-Cats played:
|
Game
|
Maimonides M-Cats
vs.
|
Score
|
|
1
|
North Shore
|
60 to 37
|
|
2
|
Farber
|
83 to 40
|
|
3
|
Hillel
|
52 to 40
|
|
Championship
|
North Shore
|
59 to 48
|
As I had mentioned earlier, Joshua is
the sole freshman on the M-Cats, and was also the sole freshman on any of the
four teams in the tournament! Hence Joshua does not spend a lot of time
actually playing, but he has clearly become a part of the team, and the coach
works hard to put the new kids in play whenever he can. So, we did get to see him
play a bit, scoring one basket and a bunch of rebounds. A number of people told
us they see a very bright future for this talented young man, and we certainly
could not disagree!
(final game)
(Joshua is third from the left in this picture)
Joshua and Ella were away over Sabbath, so we had lunch with the rest of the family at Dina’s house. On Sunday, Barry and I picked up dinner at Rami’s in Brookline and we all gathered at Simmie and Ronen’s house for a quick bite. Everyone was exhausted from the very busy weekend!
The one regret we have is that Maya
played in a small recital on Sunday afternoon that we were not able to attend.
It is a wonderful blessing to have so many things going on that we just cannot
be present at all of them! Ella has also started piano lessons so there will undoubtedly
be more happy scheduling conflicts to resolve!
Have a wonderful week.
Love,
Rebecca
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