Dave Stegman (right)
won three medals.

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Jeff Wish and Sean Teeple
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Complete Detroit
Maccabi Results

STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER

H

ere's how Detroit athletes
fared at the Jewish
Community Centers North
American Maccabi Youth
Games held Aug. 14-19 in
Cleveland:

BOYS BASKETBALL

Detroit split four games in the
15-16 age division and did not
qualify for the medal round.
The first victory was a 60-41

win over St. Louis in Detroit's ed with a 56-55 win over group. He shot 87 for 18 holes at
opener. Jeff Jacobs had 13 points, Sephardic (N.Y), then it lost 78- Beechmont Country Club, 44 for
Matt Stein added 12 points and 47 to Sid Jacobson (N.Y.).
nine holes at Punderson State
Justin Kaplan had eight points
Jacobs was the hero of the win Park and 43 for nine holes at
and 17 rebounds. Ronnie Levin over Sephardic. The guard hit a Manakiki Golf Course.
and Matt Ishbia both had seven jumper at the buzzer after Detroit
BOYS SOCCER
points and Ben Lincoln had six had to go the length of the court
Detroit went 0-4 in the 15-16
points and seven assists.
in the final six seconds.
age division pool play and
Philadelphia knocked Detroit
BOYS GOLF
failed to qualify for the medal
out of the winners' bracket with
Brad Schwartz earned a round. The losses were 1-0 to
a 72-49 victory. Detroit rebound- bronze medal in the 13-14 age Boston, 4-0 to Wayne (N.J.), 3-0
to Montreal and 6-0 to Sid
Jacobson (N.Y.).

BOYS SOFTBALL

Detroit was winless in pool
play and it didn't qualify for the
medal round. The defeats were
14-1 to Montreal, 12-7 to San
Francisco, 14-3 to Chicago and
13-0 to Los Angeles.
Against Montreal, Ben Salba,
Brent Wayburn and Ryan Weiss
played well defensively. Josh
Gad-Harf played well defensive-
ly and Brent Leder, Salba and
Neal Snitz had key hits against
San Francisco.

BOYS SWIMMING

The 13-14 age group 400-me-
ter medley relay team of Jared
Matz, Steven Misuraca, Jeremy
Landa and Steve Rosenberg won
the bronze medal (4:54.79). The
400 freestyle relay team of

Swimmers Stacey and
Melissa Axner were
multiple medal-winners.

Misuraca, Rosenberg, Landa and
Matz also won the bronze (4:08).
Dave Stegman won the bronze
in the 15-16 100 butterfly (55.93)
and the bronze in the 200 but-
terfly (2:06).

BOYS TENNIS
Gabe Bernstein made it to the
Round of 16 in the 13-14 age di-
vision singles competition by win-
ning 8-4 over Adam Evans of
Metro West (N.J.), 8-5 over Blake
Baratz of Minneapolis and 4-6, 7-
5, 6-3 over Scott Leavitt of
Cleveland. Bernstein then fell 6-
3, 6-4 to Ian Behrens of Central
Queens (N.Y.).
In first-round 15-16 action,
David Alpert of Dayton beat Seth
Helfman 8-3 and Stuart Levy of
Great Britain beat Justin
Goldfarb 8-0.
BOYS TRACK
In 13-14 age group events, Jon
Berman won the gold medal in
the 3200-meter run (10:50.2) and
the silver in the 1600 (5:04). Jeff
Nolish earned the silver in the
100 hurdles. Bronzes in 13-14
went to Sean Teeple in the 200,
the 400 relay team of Nolish,
Scott Adelman, Berman and
Teeple and the 1600 relay team
of Nolish, Adelman, Berman and
Teeple.
Chad DeWolf won the gold in
the 15-16 high jump. Also in 15-
16, Robert Roth won the silver in
the 100 and the 1600 relay team

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