Teens Cinderella Storms AZA ERICK HOFFMAN Special to The Jewish News T than him. We were really lucky to have him on the team this year." Scoring for Shapiro was in the hands of Chad Mahakian and Andrew Baum, both of Farmington Hills, who com- bined for 25 points a game. Jolson A, Greenberg A, Chazak, Herzl, Shaprio A and Shapiro B all made it to the playoffs, held at the West Bloomfield Jewish Community Center. In the end, Shapiro beat Greenberg A in a tough battle, by a welve freshmen from Berkley High School, only one month after founding their Chazak AZA chapter, took to the court in the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization's AZA Basketball League. Other participants were Jolson, Shapiro, Greenberg, Kitzoni, Herzl and Tzavah AZA. Leading the way for Chazak \Nrere freshmen Ben Chesterman and Trevor Weltman, both of Huntington Woods. The team kicked off the season with a 69-7 march over Tzavah AZA. The following weeks brought sophomores, juniors and sen- iors from larger chapters out to watch as the Berkley freshmen won their first four games by margins of 20 or more. After a hard-fought battle against Jolson A, Chazak suf- fered its first defeat, losing to the upperclassmen, 44-38. None- theless, Chazak still AZA champs: Standing are Justin Rolnitzky, managed to take the fourth seed Matt Tugender, Shawn Achtman, Eric in the playoffs. Hoffman. Kneeling are Yale Miller, Chad Reigning champion Greenberg Mahakian, Andrew Baum. AZA started the new season with a two-game winning streak that final score of 52-41. This is the first was ended by Jolson. Under captains time in four years that Greenberg was Brian Stone of Farmington Hills and not .the champion. Cary Rosen of Walled Lake, Jolson Another first-year chapter, Tzavah, squeaked by. Stone and Rosen each under captain Brad Millman of West scored 18. Benjamin Margolis of Ann Bloomfield, fought an uphill battle all Arbor led Greenberg with 22. season with very determined freshmen. Jolson emerged victorious with a After watching them beat their in- scoring drive in the final minutes and school, cross-town rival, Kitzoni AZA, held off Greenberg with a 2-3 zone the region expects great things from throughout the game. them in coming years. ❑ Jolson completed the regular season with only one loss, to undefeated Eric Hoffman is AZA president for Shapiro. Greenberg advanced to the playoffs and faced Jolson again in the Michigan Region BBYO. first round. Shapiro kicked off the season by stampeding their first opponent, their Teens Plan Fun Day fellow chapter members of the Shapiro C team. The A team's Shawn Achtman Detroit Teen Connection will visit of Walled Lake hit three-pointers all C. J. Barrymore's amusement park game long to lead his team to a 61-20 and entertainment center in Utica victory. on Sunday, May 23. 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