Sports

Detroiters go for the

gold (and silver and

bronze) in Houston,

Columbus, Cherry Hill.

LONNY GOLDSMITH
Special to The Jewish News

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indy Pickens won silver
and bronze medals in
her previous three years
in the JCC Maccabi
Games and the Detroit delegation
soccer player knew early in the week
in Columbus, Ohio, that her shot at
gold was gone. .
After her soccer team lost a heart-
breaking 1-0 game for the bronze
medal, her shot at a third medal of
any color seemed gone as well.
Until the track meet.
Pickens, running in borrowed size-
10 shoes and socks of delegation head
Karen Sklar Gordon, ran in the
4x200-meter relay with her soccer
coach, Jodi Berris, and won the gold
medal.
"The track meet was an open event
and another opportunity for them to
win," said Gordon, who added that
Berris and Pickens ran with two girls
that were on their soccer team, made
up of girls from Detroit, Pittsburgh
and Richmond.
Nicole Falkauff also represented the
soccer team well in the track meet,
winning the gold medal in the 1,600-
meter run.
Golfers won individual medals in
their own sport for Detroit's Maccabi
team. Brad Rosen finished second in
the overall competition among 15-
and 16-year-olds and was tied for
third with an 87 on Aug. 11. Aaron
Friedman won the gold medal on
Aug. 11 in the 13-14-year-old compe-
tition, shooting an 82, capturing the
silver medal overall.
In Columbus team action,
Detroit's boys 15-16-year-old basket-
ball team, which averaged nearly 78
points in its first four games, fell to
Pittsburgh 40-28 in the semifinals. It
rebounded against Milwaukee to win
the bronze medal, 62-55.
The volleyball team, undefeated
until the gold medal match and up
one game on Pittsburgh, lost its
next three games and took home sil-
ver.

8/20
1999

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