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Gert Feldman
Gert Feldman of West
Bloomfield is the oldest
bowler in the Jewish
Women International
Detroit leagues. At age
"90-plus," she still bowls
twice a week, averaging
115 in the Galilee Monday
Morning League and 99 in
the Israel-Zeiger Thursday Night League.
Ryan Rosen
Former Bloomfield Hills
Andover High School
football star Ryan Rosen
was a freshman defensive
lineman this fall on the
Kenyon College (Ohio)
team. Last year at Andover,
Rosen was named to the
Oakland Press All-Oakland
County honorable mention list and the All-Oakland
Activities Association Blue Division Team. He's a
member of the Hillel Day School class of 2006.
Matt
Felsenfeld
Michael Kolb
Michael Kolb of
Commerce Township
averages 222 in the
B'nai B'rith Downtown
Fox league at Drakeshire
Lanes in Farmington Hills,
second-highest among
league bowlers. He rolled
his second career 300
game Sept. 21. His 772 series that night is third-
highest in the league this season.
Scott Robbins
Scott Robbins of Farming-
ton Hills has a league-
best 228 average in the
B'nai B'rith Downtown
Fox bowling league at
Drakeshire Lanes in Farm-
ington Hills. He bowled
his first 800 series Oct. 5,
rolling 288-280-279/847
with 32 strikes in 36 frames. More recently, he
bowled his first 300 game in the B'nai B'irth Ben
Bider Tournament at Drakeshire.
Matt Felsenfeld is a fresh-
man golfer at the Univer-
sity of Michigan. The West
Bloomfield resident, one of
the top junior golfers in the
country, graduated from
the David Leadbetter Golf
Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
The Wolverines will open their spring season Feb.
11-12 in the Big Ten Match Championships at the
TPC of Heron Bay in Coral Springs, Fla.
Fran Klinger
Fran Klinger of Farmington
Hills has been bowling in
Jewish Women Interna-
tional Detroit leagues for
46 consecutive seasons.
She's currently in the
Galilee Monday Morning
League. She's a past presi-
dent of the JWI Bowling
Association of Metropolitan Detroit and the JWI
Mid-America Bowling Association.
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Capping It
Greenhills senior wins
state doubles title.
Steve Stein
Special to the Jewish News
D
avid Goldfarb couldn't have
scripted a better ending to
his high school tennis career.
Besides helping Ann Arbor
Greenhills win its third consecutive
MHSAA Division 4 state champion-
ship — an unprecedented accom-
plishment for the perennial power —
he won his first state title on a doubles
team with one of his best friends as
his partner.
The No. 2 doubles state champion-
ship won by Goldfarb and Shamik
Ganguly was served with a heaping
tablespoon of sweet revenge.
Goldfarb and Ganguly dominated
Cody Liverance and Graham Preston
6-2, 6-0 in the finals, avenging a
third-set tie-breaker loss to the North
Muskegon duo in their first match of
the season.
The Greenhills seniors' 6-1, 6-0
win over Chris Miller and Briggs
Richmond from Traverse City St.
Francis in the semifinals also was
special for Goldfarb because he lost
to that team in the No. 3 doubles state
championship match in 2009.
"Awesome," was Goldfarb's one-word
description of his run to the state title.
"I was really nervous before the match
against St. Francis. It was my last
chance to get to play for a state cham-
pionship, and I didn't want to lose."
He made it to the state semifinals at
No. 3 doubles as a sophomore and lost
in the finals as a junior.
Goldfarb and Ganguly, who was in
his first varsity season, improved as
a team throughout the fall. They fin-
ished 29-5. Their only loss to an oppo-
nent from a Division 4 school was to
Liverance and Preston from North
Muskegon.
"Shamik and I complemented each
other well',' Goldfarb said. "He's really
good at running down shots and I like
to finish points, to put them away."
Greenhills coach Eric Gajar is
amazed at Goldfarb's finishing ability.
"David has a cannon for a forehand:'
he said.
Gajar, the school's director of
admissions, said Goldfarb also is a
champion off the tennis court. "He's
one of our Gryphon Ambassadors.
David Goldfarb
He's a host at our open houses. David
is the kind of person you want repre-
senting your school. He's a class act.
He's able to balance his calm demean-
or with a competitive fire when he
plays tenths."
Goldfarb, 18, carries a 3.76 grade
point average in a challenging aca-
demic environment at the 320-stu-
dent Greenhills Upper School. The
Ann Arbor resident is considering
attending Kalamazoo College or the
University of Michigan, focusing on
math or science.
He plans to continue playing com-
petitive tennis, but not at the collegiate
level. The 5-foot-9, 150-pounder has
been a year-round player for several
years.
Service With A Smile
Even though they didn't win many
matches this fall, the 10 players on the
second-year Akiva Hebrew Day School
boys middle school tennis team never
lost their "unflappable enthusiasm."
That compliment came from assis-
tant coach Laura Stern, who was
amazed by the boys' willingness to
learn.
"They picked up the skills and eti-
quette of the game very quickly," she
said. "That really makes me happy
because they've now acquired a sport
they can enjoy their entire lives."
Bryan Weinstein was the
Southfield-based team's coach. His
assistants were Bob Torgow and
Stern. The roster included Jake
Berlin, Asher Keyes, Alter Klausner,
Andrew Korman, Cobi Nadal, Adam
Phillips, Mikey Stebbins, Justin
Schulman, Jordan Well and Jed
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