Northwest Yeshiva volleyball battles to districts despite small roster | Sports briefs

The Northwest Yeshiva High School volleyball team finished their season, just two games shy of the state volleyball tournament. The 613s, who had just seven players on the roster this fall and no seniors, lost in the district tournament while looking for a second consecutive state bid.

By Megan Managan • November 4, 2010 2:17 pm

The Northwest Yeshiva High School volleyball team finished their season, just two games shy of the state volleyball tournament. The 613s, who had just seven players on the roster this fall and no seniors, lost in the district tournament while looking for a second consecutive state bid.

During the first game of the tournament, held at Cresent High School, the team lost to Mt. Rainier Lutheran, before beating Shorewood Christian. The 613s then faced Neah Bay in a loser out, winner to state game. After splitting the first two games of the match, an injury to Ilana Polack gave Neah Bay an opening to take the fourth game for a 3-1 win.

“With an active roster of just seven and no seniors, Yeshiva took what was supposed to be a rebuilding year and transformed itself into a winning team that was highly competitive, a team that earned the respect of all opponents,” said Yeshiva Athletic Director Jed Davis. “That all has to do with Drew Artiaga and his assistant Tiffany Shen. The mark of a great coach comes when that coaches graduates a significant number of top seniors, as he did in the fall of 2009. It is what he does with the new team the following year that shows true greatness. The tradition of excellence that had been the trademark of Yeshiva volleyball continued without a blip.”

The team will return everyone from this season to the court next fall.

Northwest Yeshiva cross country takes fourth in league

Northwest Yeshiva cross country runners had a strong finish to their season, taking fourth place as a team in the Sea-Tac league race at Trophy Lake on Oct. 21.

“Each runner pushed the next,” said coach Kevin McGinnis. “When you see commitment and improvement like this over a season, you know the season was a great success.”

For the boys varsity team Elie Aboulafia earned the team’s top finish with an 8th place, while Josh Voss was 18th. Andrew Orenstein took 19th, Binny Greene 36th, Yotam Bentov was 39th, Josh Gladstein was 44th and Itai Amon was 46th. In the boys JV race Albert Maimon was 12th, while teammate Avi Amon took 13th.

In the girls race Laurel Aaronson was seventh overall.