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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1991
T
hey didn't plan it that
way, but three alumni
of the Detroit Maccabi
Club have ended up on the
same college team.
The three are Lorne
Kolodin, Jason Goldsmith
and David Stone, who played
soccer together for the Mac-
cabi club in the mid to late-
1980s and who are now do-
ing the same at Eastern
Michigan University.
Goldsmith, a sophomore
from Southfield High School,
and Stone, a junior from
Bloomfield Hills Andover,
were recruited by Hurons
head coach Chris Corteg and
have been starters. But
sophomore Kolodin, a
Berkley High graduate, won
a berth this past season as a
walk-on and saw con-
siderable action, even star-
ting a game or two.
The Hurons finished the
season 12-8-1, which includ-
ed a 4-3 victory over Miami
University of Ohio — that
team's only loss to a Mid-
American Conference (MAC)
opponent in 1990. It also in-
cluded a narrow, 1-0 season-
ending loss to Oakland Uni-
versity, a perennial Mich-
igan and national soccer
powerhouse.
Kolodin and Goldsmith,
both 19, have been lifelong
friends and soccer team-
mates. They and Stone were
on the 1986 Detroit Maccabi
team that lost to Colombia
in the second round of the
Toronto Youth Games, and
Kolodin and Goldsmith
played on the gold-medal-
winning Detroit soccer team
in the Cleveland regional
games the following year.
But, said Kolodin,
although he knew
Goldsmith was going to
Eastern and the two visited
each other their freshman
year, their ending up on the
soccer team was unplanned.
The results of the reunion
have been good for the
Hurons, however.
Goldsmith, who was switch-
ed from forward to
defenseman midway in the
season, scored the game-
winning goal over Indiana-
Purdue — which was set up
by Kolodin — and also not-
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Jason Goldsmith:
"Speed, quickness, intensity."
ched three assists.
Defenseman Stone earned
two assists for the season
while Kolodin, in his first
year as a Huron for-
ward/midfielder, scored two
goals and an assist.
"All three of these kids fit
into the team, both their
playing and their per-
sonalities," said coach
Corteg, now in his eighth
year at Ypsilanti. "They are
very well-behaved, well-
mannered — the kind of kids
you'd want to be involved
with a team."
Stone, at 5-foot-11 and 180
pounds, is by far the biggest
of the three ex-Maccabians
— both Goldsmith and
Kolodin are two of the
smallest players in the
MAC.
A pre-med major, Stone is
also the Hurons' top student-
athlete, with a 3.7 grade-
point average which won
him a berth on the all-MAC
academic team.
"He's very mature, a seri-
ous student and player who's
well-rounded and has a good
sense of humor," said
Corteg.
"If I could pick only five
players for a team, David
would be one of the five. He's
got decent speed, above-
average technique and he's a
hard tackler." Goldsmith,
although only 5-5 and 135
pounds, is "a dynamo," said
Corteg. "He's got speed,
quickness and he's an in-
tense, very aggressive
player. He's one of the most
dangerous players on the
Lorne Kolodin:
"Doesn't give up."
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David Stone:
"A hard tackler."
team, a very good offensive
player."
An injury to another
player, however, forced
Corteg to move Goldsmith to
defense, taking over Stone's
spot at outside defensive
back while Stone moved to
central defensive back.
To his delight, Corteg
found Goldsmith a natural.
"He's instinctively an at-
tacker. He does all the
things right a defender
needs to do. He's so quick,
fast and strong. Two steps
and he's gone."
"I don't think the man I
covered scored once," noted
Goldsmith, a psychology
major who was an
honorable-mention all-stater
while at Southfield. Playing
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