{"id":155331,"date":"2025-09-12T14:53:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=155331"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:53:21","slug":"raanana-downs-herzliya-netanya-drops-galil-elyon-in-winner-cup-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/raanana-downs-herzliya-netanya-drops-galil-elyon-in-winner-cup-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Raanana downs Herzliya, Netanya drops Galil Elyon in Winner Cup action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Maccabi Raanana downed Bnei Herzliya 82-73<\/strong> thanks to a strong second half that saw the hosts comeback from a 43-35 halftime deficit as five players scored in double digits to take the win. Hassan Diarra scored 18 points, Joaqin Szuchman added 13 points and Yotam Hanochi scored 12 points in the victory while Max Heidegger scored 19 points and Shalev Lugashi put in 15 points in the loss.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_155334\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155334\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-155334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-1536x850.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-2048x1134.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-610x338.jpg 610w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-12-at-16_18_18-1080x598.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-155334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Basket.co.il<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Elitzur Netanya defeated Hapoel Galil Elyon 72-61<\/strong> as Idan Avshalom\u2019s squad took the win after having finally been granted the final spot in the Premier League due to Hapoel Afula not fielding a team for the new season. Hapoel Eilat attempted to combine forces with Afula in order for the Leumit League team to play in the top division but after weeks of back and forth with the Israel Basketball Association and the courts, the merger was not allowed to go forward. Otis Frazier scored 19 points and Trey Calvin added 15 points in the victory as Sam Alajiki scored 19 points in the loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Raanana downed Bnei Herzliya 82-73 thanks to a strong second half that saw the hosts comeback from a 43-35 halftime deficit as five players scored in double digits to take the win. Hassan Diarra scored 18 points, Joaqin Szuchman added 13 points and Yotam Hanochi scored 12 points in the victory while Max Heidegger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":155336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-155331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holy-land-hoops","tag-netanya","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raanana downs Herzliya, Netanya drops Galil Elyon in Winner Cup action - Sports Rabbi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/raanana-downs-herzliya-netanya-drops-galil-elyon-in-winner-cup-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raanana downs Herzliya, Netanya drops Galil Elyon in Winner Cup action - Sports Rabbi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maccabi Raanana downed Bnei Herzliya 82-73 thanks to a strong second half that saw the hosts comeback from a 43-35 halftime deficit as five players scored in double digits to take the win. 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