After the 17-medal success of the first day, the
swim team won 18 more on Tuesday. Jonathan
Schwartz won three more gold medals in the 50
freestyle, 200 breaststroke, and the 400 medley relay
for the 13-14 age group, giving him six after the first
two days.
On Wednesday, Detroit earned 15 medals on the fi-
nal day of the swim competition.
Another successful unit was Detroit's boys golf team.
Josh Hoffman won the overall gold for 13-14-year-olds,
and Scott Lieberman the silver medal for the 15-16
group.
In addition, every competitor on the Detroit team
won medals in the daily competition, or in the scram-
ble on Thursday.
"All the medals we won were truly an indication of
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how good this team is," coach Al Adelson said. "Detroit
was dominant."
In tennis, Danny Matz and Eric Megdall teamed
up to win a bronze medal in the 13-14-year-old
doubles tournament, defeating an Israeli pair that
defeated both Detroiters, on separate occasions, in
singles.
The toughest part of the tournament for the tennis
players was when Matz and Megdall had to play each
other in the round of 16. Matz went on to defeat Meg-
dall, only to lose to the eventual winner in the quar-
terfinals.
Jamie Royal took the bronze medal in the girls 13-
14 tournament.
In the 15-16-year-old competition, Brad Jaffe won
the silver, and Jay Frankel defeated teammate Mark
Frankel for the bronze. Mark Frankel and Jaffe de-
feated Jay Frankel and Aaron Beitner for the gold medal
in doubles.
The rain was so hard on Wednesday, only boys and
girls soccer saw outdoor action.
Although they lost to D.C., the girls defeated
Pittsburgh by the same 5-0 score. Meanwhile, the boys
team dropped a heartbreaking 3-1 decision to North
Jersey. Both teams had entered the game undefeat-
ed.
While the volleyball team stayed dry in the gym at
the Pittsburgh JCC, their chance at a medal ended ear-
ly in the final round as they fell to Columbus.
Detroit delegation head Jill Spokojny was pleased
with how well the local athletes competed.
"It was a very successful week," she said. "We have
competitive athletes and they were rewarded for it.
Every athlete commented that it was a wonderful ex-
perience, on and off the field."
Seattle
Ten Detroit track and field athletes, for lack of a real
track meet in Pittsburgh or Milwaukee, headed north-
west to Seattle to compete.
Erica Soloway medaled in three distance events in
the girls 15-16-year-old age group. She won silver
medals in the 800 meter and mile runs, and a gold
in the two mile. She, with teammate Scot Goldman, was
part of a coed mile relay team that won a bronze.
In the sprint events, Elyse Simon and Erica Rives
finished second and third in the girls 15-16 100 meter
race.
Nathan Miller took bronze medals in the 100 and 400
meters, and gold in the 110 and 300 meter hurdles for
15-16-year-olds. Miller, along with Goldman, Dave
Livshitz and Sean Teeple, were on the silver medal win-
ning 400 meter relay team.
Teeple, who won a silver medal at the Maccabiah
in Israel last month, teamed with Miller, Simon and
Rives to win silver in the 400 meter coed relay. Teeple,
Miller, Livshitz and Dave Raban won the silver medal
in the mile relay.
Raban and Livshitz also took silver and bronze in the
800 meter run and the two mile run. Livshitz took third
place honors in the mile run and the high jump.
In the girls 13-14 division, Blair Teeple took a sil-
ver in the 100 meter hurdles and a silver in the shot
put. ❑
Above: Howard Dworman
attacks the Upper West
Side defense.
Left: Stacey Raf fends off a
Pittsburgh defender.