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Strong Seasons
The girls' basketball teams at two area high
schools enjoyed themselves this year.
T
MIKE ROSENBAUM
Special to The Jewish News
kings should have been
better this past season
for West Bloomfield
High School's girls' basketball
team.
They sure were for the
Lakersr counterparts at
Southfield-Lathrup.
The Lakers only played
briefly in the state quarter-
finals this year despite retur-
ning most of last year's state
runner-up squad. The
Chargers, meanwhile, won as
many games in 1990 as they
had in their two previous
seasons — including a victory
over West Bloomfield.
With most of her team
returning following the 24-4
season in 1989, West Bloom-
field coach Ronna Greenberg
could have entered the season
with high hopes. But a pre-
season knee injury to all-state
and all-American guard
Amira Danforth sidelined the
key player for the entire year.
However, the Lakers still
managed a strong campaign
in Greenberg's third year at
the helm, finishing 17-5
overall and second in the
tough Metro Suburban Ac-
tivities Association at 11-3.
West Bloomfield lost to even-
tual state quarterfinalist Bir-
mingham Marian in the
district final.
In addition to its Jewish
coach, West Bloomfield
featured one of the metro
area's few Jewish players,
senior forward Jody Persky.
Persky, a two-year starter,
averaged 12.6 points per game
and 7 rebounds per contest
this season and earned all-
suburban honorable mention.
Persky, says Greenberg,
"had a fine season. She was
hindered a little bit by a back
injury early on. I don't know
if it was quite up to her expec-
tations, but I think she did a
good job. She worked real
hard.
"Now we're hoping that she
gets a basketball scholarship
somewhere. We're just looking
to see what's ahead."
Southfield-Lathrup re-
bounded to respectability this
year, finishing 8-13 overall, 5-9
in the MSAA, following two
poor seasons. The young
Chargers were led by a pair of
Jewish senior starters, both
captains: forward Lorie Erlich
and guard Nicole Rudolph.
Erlich, says Lathrup coach
Jody Persky;
"Worked real hard."
Bob Harding, was "our stan-
dout iron-person. She played
most of every game."
A forward who was tough
under the boards, "she led our
team in rebounds," said the
coach. "She was one of the tri-
captains, a good leader and
just a very good basketball
player. Tough inside.
"Her role was to get the re-
bounds. She did that and did
an excellent job for us."
Erlich averaged 6.2 points
and 11.3 rebounds per game.
Rudolph missed six games
with injuries, but averaged 4.1
points and led the team with
2.7 assists per contest.
Rudolph was hampered
with ankle injuries
throughout her career at
Lathrup, but when she played,
Harding says, she was a domi-
nant floor leader. "She made
our offense work," he said.
"People looked to her to make
things go. A tough competitor
and a good three-point shooter.
"When she was in there, she
showed lots of guts. She was in
there playing with her legs
hardly being able to work. She
was our assist leader, that was
the kind of ballplayer she was.
Always in the middle of
things, always ready to mix it
up."
With nine of its 12 players
returning next year, Harding
hopes for even more success in
1991. But, he says, "We will
miss these two seniors a lot."
At Berkley, junior forward
Heather Davis made the var-
sity squad, although she saw
little action for the 13-9 Bears.
Coach Mike Arce describes
Davis as "full of enthusiasm.
She has a lot of spirit. She
played hard, she gave 100 per-
cent."
Will Davis play more next
season? "We hope so," says
Ronna Greenberg:
Had high hopes.
Arce. "If her shooting comes
along she'll play more."
West Bloomfield's Green-
berg undoubtedly will have
a hard time leaving the
season behind. With a healthy
Danforth, West Bloomfield
would have been one of the
favorites to win the Class A
title.
"I think when I look back
I'll take it as being a good
season," Greenberg says. "Any
coach that doesn't take a
17-win season as good is crazy.
But I think probably for the
rest of my life I'll always think
What if?' "
When Danforth was injured,
the Lakers' stock dropped
from probable state contender
to probable MSAA also-ran.
But Greenberg certainly
didn't think "we were going
to have to call all the teams
and cancel our schedule.
"I kind of thought we could
still win the league. I thought
we were real solid, especially
if kids reached their poten-
tial."
Greenberg now has two
second-place finishes and one
MSAA championship to show
for her three years at West
Bloomfield. Her overall record
is 66-16, an .805 winning
percentage. But this past
season was "a really big lear-
ning experience for me.
"I had to make a lot of ad-
justments on the spot," she
says. "You get used to kids in
certain positions and kids get
used to certain situations.
And all of a sudden, we've got
to change.
"I learned a lot about my
team and I learned about me
as a coach. In many ways it
was very, very beneficial."
West Bloomfield will
graduate most of its varsity
next spring.
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