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Game Fever

Akiva hosts JAMD at the new Meer Gymnasium.

DLkNA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer-
ALEX LUMELSKY
Photographer

T

he bleachers were
on back order, but
the floor was top-
notch and the light-
ing superb as Yeshivat Akiva
launched its new Meer Family
Gymnasium.
The Jan. 9 game, which pit-
ted Akiva's Pioneers basketball
team against the Jewish
Academy of Metropolitan
Detroit Jaguars, opened with a
3-pointer by JAMD's Ari
Carmen. The game's top scor-
er, with 13 points, was Akiva's
Ben Berlin, followed closely
by JAMD's Adam
Greenbaum, who tossed in 12
points.
Both Akiva and the JAMD
played team-oriented games,
said JAMD coach Bob
Shoemaker. The game ended
with a 59-28 Jaguar win.
Next year, the JAMD,
which is housed at the Jewish
Community Center in West
Bloomfield, will host Akiva in
the JCC's newly renovated
g oy ym.
b

.

Clockwise from the top left:

Rabbi Yigal Tsaidi, school princi-
pal, enjoys a front-row seat.

Early game action in the new
Meer Gym.

Basketball fan Talya Carmen,
10, of Southfield.

The Pioneers get pointers from
Akiva coach Dr. Ken Kohn as
Rabbi Tsaidi looks on.

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