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Krupp And Cooper Beat The Buzzer To Head Into Tier-II Finals Jason Kirshner and Mark Rocklin Published on: 03/30/2009 March 29, 2009 (MacsLive Reporting Services, New York) – The second Tier II semifinal of Big Sunday featured two teams that live and die on their shooting. Tonight’s headline story would be the hot hand of Joel Bowman (17 points), the Cooper Macs 6”4 guard, who camped out at the three point arc, on his way to propelling the Cooper Macs past a good Maimonides M-Cats squad, 49-47. The full throttle defense of both the (13) Cooper Yeshiva Macs and the(9) Maimonides M-Cats held each team scoreless for the first 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the game when Ari Packer would fly to the rim putting in the acrobatic lay-up sparking his team on a 7-0 run. The M-Cat defense and cheering section proved too much for the Macs to handle, until Joe Bowman would rally the Macs back into the game on his three point touch. But Ben Zack of Maimo was also feeling the rhythm knocking down three-pointers of his own, and at the end of one quarter it was M-Cats leading 13-8. The start of the second quarter looked like a carbon copy of the start of the first as both teams picked up their intensity and wouldn’t allow the ball into the cylinder, until unsung hero from the first quarter, Bowman, would continue his touch draining the long ball. On their ensuing possession Cooper hit another three point field goal taking the lead 14-13. The Maimonides M-Cats did not panic, making a little run for themselves and going into the half leading 22-16.
In a sudden change of events, Medel Lazaros and a patient Macs squad got the second half running in their favor, opening a 10-0 Cooper run. But the story was the Cooper 3-2 defense which limited the M-Cats scoreless for the first 5 minutes of the quarter. Maimo would get its bucket at the end of the third quarter, but fortunately for the Macs Avi Katz and Joel Bowman continued to hit their clutch shots, holding onto a 10 point lead. Zachary Jaffe, Avisha Algae, and Ben Zack and the Maimo offense would once again make a charge, cutting Cooper’s once ten-point lead it to three with 1:36 remaining. The Macs would answer, but the Maimo offense did not yield, Packer and Bradley Baskir clutch three pointers sent the Memphis coaches to the chalk board.
After Baskir tied the game with a three-pointer with 5.5 seconds, to go, Cooper inbounded the ball to star guard Isaac Krupp, who went coast-to-coast, heaved up a off-balance lay-up with about 1.5 seconds remaining. The ball teasingly hung on the rim, falling through just as the red lights on the backboard lit up and the final buzzer sounded, sending the Max Stern Athletic Center into a frenzy and the Cooper Macs into the Tier-II finals.
The Macs will play the Or Chaim Knights for first place in Tier-II at 12:30 P.M. on Monday at the Max Stern Athletic Center. The game will be broadcast by MacsLive.
Maimonides will play in a Tier-II consolation game at 10 A.M. at TABC against Weinbaum. The game will not be broadcast by MacsLive, but we will have updates from TABC in our regular broadcast. Storm fans can also follow the game on MacsLive’s live, updating scoreboard.
#3 - ed wiener @ 11:00 AM on March 30th 2009
congrats on ur win never quit
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