Hapoel Tel Aviv defeated Maccabi Rishon Le’Zion 88-77 as Johnathan Motley paced the visitors to the victory. The Reds came out strong and grabbed a 58-42 lead after the first half, but the hosts clawed their way back into the game with tremendous play by Amin Stevens to come to within 74-71 midway through the final frame. However, Motley and Tomer Ginat scored points a plenty down the stretch to take the win. Motley scored 19 points and Guy Palatin added 15 points in the victory while KhalilAhmad scored 23 points and Stevens put in 22 points to capture the win.

Hapoel HaEmek clipped Bnei Herzliya 95-94 in overtime as the Gilboa based club took the razor thin win. Kyler Edwards with 38 points out-dueled Elijah Stewart who scored 34 points as the former helped knot the game up as regulation time came to an end and then added a critical 3-pointer along with Niv Misgav who also went from deep and gave Sharon Avrahami’s team the victory.