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APRIL 26, 2018 | The Jewish Home
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HANC HS Boys Torah Bowl Team Wins National Championship
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t is with great pride and exhilaration that we announce HANC High School as the 2018 Yeshiva High School National Torah Bowl Champions. On Monday, April 23, the HANC High School Boys’ Torah Bowl Team headed to Brooklyn to take on Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, Kushner, and RTMA for the Torah Bowl championship. Coming into the match, HANC finished both the regular season and the playoffs undefeated, defeating
HAFTR, Flatbush, Magen David, and North Shore for the Division Championship. The championship match saw HANC get off to a slow start but by the end of the first quarter they found themselves in second place, down by 5 points. At the half, HANC took the lead by one point. The competition was fierce with the lead going back and forth for the rest of the match between HANC and Kushner. At the end of regulation, HANC and Kushner were deadlocked
in a 40-40 tie. Jonah Rocheeld successfully answered the tie-breaking question to secure the victory for HANC, bringing home the championship for the third time in six years. With great pride, HANC High School Principal, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman remarked, “Winning a Torah Bowl championship for a third time in six years demonstrates a sustained commitment to excellence in Torah scholarship. I cannot be prouder of Rabbi Chrein and his devoted team of budding talmidei chachamim.”
The team celebrated their win in style at Rami’s Pizza Shop in Brooklyn. The achdut and hard work from all four teams made the championship match an even more memorable one. Mazal Tov to coach Rabbi Shimon Chrein and to team members Jonah Rocheeld, Adam Speiser, Moshe Wieder, Aryeh Livieim, Eli Matatov, Yaakov Kohanim, Aytan Masturov, Aaron Namdar, Daniel Hayimov, Daniel Salim, and Mordechai Balakhaneh.
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