and half penalty kick.
Michelle Berris was watch-
ing the boys game before her
girls squad took on Bergen
County, N.J., at 10:30. Berris
had already won in one corn-
petition: "I traded most of my
stuff last night (at the open-
ing ceremonies)," she said. "I
had a great time — I even got
a Mexican T-shirt."
Detroit and Ann Arbor
may be the only teams in the
nation that cannot recruit
high school girls basketball
players for their Maccabi
teams. While other sports
seem to be able to get around
Michigan High School Ath-
letic Association rules ban-
ning outside competition
during the high school season,
the girls fall basketball sea-
son leaves the Maccabi teams
short ... literally.
So it was no surprise that
Ann Arbor and Detroit got
beaten by taller, faster, more
experienced teams on Mon-
day. But the scores were trou-
bling.
Ann Arbor trailed Toronto
46-5 after three quarters, and
even delegation chair Sharon
Newman's hope that the team
would defend better in each
quarter as the game went
along was lost in the final
score, 70-9.
Detroit fared worse against
host Baltimore, down 41-2 af-
ter the first 12 minutes.
Guard Elana Levin scored 13
points in the quarter for Bal-
timore off the fast break,
while the inexperienced De-
troiters could not penetrate a
tough defense.
Baltimore won the game by
a lopsided, 117-14, bringing
grumblings from the Detroit
delegation about unsports-
manlike conduct. Detroit
coaches Mark Jeross and Bob-
by Gamer called a team meet-
ing after the loss. "We're just
going to try to learn from it
and do better next time," said
Gamer.
While Baltimore won the
game, they may have lost the
war. Star player Tali Rombro,
a high school junior who is be-
ing recruited by several col-
leges, slipped and fell while
backpedaling in the open
court and injured her wrists.
She was taken to the hospital
for X-rays.
Wrestler Marc Goldman
may have been at a disad-
vantage before the competi-
tion even began. Goldman,
who would have preferred to
wrestle in the 130-pound
weight class, weighed in Mon-
day at 133.
Said Detroit chaperone and
Maccabi veteran Jay Robin-
son, "For me to lose three
pounds in this hot sun would
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up the Ann Arbor delegation
not be a problem. But Marc
by taking the gold in the 13-
has no place to lose weight on
14 800-meter run. Wark, a
a 5-8, 133-pound frame."
member of the Ann Arbor
Goldman, though, has fam-
Track Club, out-kicked a Los
ily tradition going for him at
Angeles runner down the
the Maccabi Games. He is one
stretch.
of two Detroit athletes with
relatives enshrined in the
Outside Baltimore on Sun-
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall
day morning, two buses car-
of Fame.
rying the Toronto team
His grandfather, Julius,
collided in the fog. Several
earned 14 letters in baseball,
athletes were shaken up and
football, basketball and track
one required seven stitches to
at the Detroit Institute of
close a cut.
Technology, and was voted
The accident had no effect
the school's "athlete of the
on the Toronto girls softball
half-century." The late Julius
team when they faced Detroit
Goldman was also a member
Monday afternoon. Detroit
of the Olympic Rules Com-
was overmatched by Toronto
mittee for basketball.
pitcher Julie Brooks, age 15,
Detroit's lone entry in
karate, Yaakov Krieger, is the
son of Byron Krieger, who
was a member of the U.S.
Olympic fencing team in 1952
and 1956 and a Wayne Uni-
versity All-American.
With the temperature 1n
the mid-80s and with very lit-
tle shade at the University of
Maryland Baltimore County
track, Detroit coaches Joel
Kashdan and Don Rudick
nearly boiled over. Several of
their runners were missing
from semi-final heats of the
800 meters.
But the runners did not
panic, and several Detroiters
medaled during the first day
of track and field competition.
Adam Estrine (2:15.4) and
Jessica Fields (2:53.2) took
bronze medals in the 13-14
800 meters, Chad DeWolf
took a silver medal in 13-14
long jump (17-11), and
Michael Grant took a silver in
110 hurdles.
Rebecca Wark helped perk
20 at the Maple-Drake Jew-
ish Community Center, the
athletes could purchase De-
troit Maccabi uniforms dating
back to the 1986 games in
Toronto.
The Detroit Maccabi Club
also announced that it would
print a souvenir yearbook at
the conclusion of the Balti-
more games. Both projects
will help raise money for the
club, said Jay Robinson, who
estimated the club will lose
$10,000 on the Baltimore
games.
At the team meeting, Rab-
bi Martin Berman of Congre-
gation Beth Achim requested
a moment of silence during
his invocation in memory of
Paul Sonkin. Mr. Sonkin, a
member of the Detroit Mac-
cabi soccer team, died in an
automobile accident last
month.
who has been pitching fast-
pitch for eight years.
Brooks' smooth, mitt-pop-
ping delivery kept Detroit off
balance, and Toronto defeated
Detroit, 12-0.
Racquetball, wrestling and
gymnastics have smaller
numbers of competitors at the
games. Monday was a day of
coaching clinics and demon-
strations for each of those
sports, with competition start-
ing on Tuesday.
The racquetball players
heard national champion
Marty Hogan, who then
played each Maccabian in a 7-
point game.
At the team meeting Aug.
There were a few glitches
as the games began, but Mac-
cabi veterans agreed that Bal-
timore was doing a fine job as
host city. Many Detroiters
had problems finding sched-
ules and maps for the first
day, but those problems were
remedied.
When the athletes visited
the National Aquarium in
Baltimore's Inner Harbor on
Monday evening, several less-
cautious delegation heads told
their teen-agers they were
free to wander during the 10-
block walk from the subway.
Detroit and other adult
chaperones quickly called
Baltimore police and asked
for extra security in the area.
The police quickly complied.
Most of the Maccabi coach-
es and chaperones stayed at
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