sports

Hall of Famers

Epstein is perhaps best known as the
coach who turned the Livonia Franklin
High School softball team into a peren-
nial power.
ime is getting short to pur-
He took the Patriots to the state
chase tickets for the annual
championship
game three times, win-
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall
ning
the
Class
A
title in 1986 with a
of Fame Induction Dinner.
1-0
victory
over
Waterford
Kettering.
The event will be held Monday, Oct.
Franklin
lost
in
the
1985
and
1990
22, at the Jewish Community Center in
championship
games.
West Bloomfield. Dinner is at 5 p.m.
Epstein was a stand-
and the program is at 7
out
athlete at Detroit
p.m.
Central
High School. He
The 2012 Hall of Fame
graduated
from Wayne
inductees are Lynda
State
University,
taught
Goldstein Benit, Herb
elementary
school
physi-
Brown, Daniel Cohen,
cal
education
in
Detroit
Storm Kirschenbaum
and Livonia, and was a
and Jamie Silverstein.
longtime
bowler in the
Erwin "Itsy" Lieberman
B'nai
B'rith
Brotherhood
will receive the Alvin
League.
Foon Humanitarian
"Joe was a nice person,
Award.
Storm Kirschenbaum
very
well-liked, and a
Barry Bershad,
will become the first
great
family man:' said
Frederick Cohen,
High School Athlete of
Farmington
Hills resident
Howard Golding, Burt
the Year to be inducted
Fran
Klinger,
a longtime
Hurshe, Alan Kaczander, into the Hall of Fame.
friend
of
Epstein
and his
Rick Kacander and
wife,
Linda
(Deutch).
The
Howard will be the
Epsteins
were
married
for
54
years.
first recipients of Pillars of Excellence
A funeral service was held at Ira
awards.
Kaufman
Chapel in Southfield and
High
School
Athletes
Jewish News
burial
was
in Adam Shalom Memorial
of the Year Rachel Bergman, Sydney
Park
in
Livonia.
Glanz and Max Kollin will be honored
In addition to his wife, Epstein is
as will Bill Hertz Memorial Scholarship
survived
by three children, six grand-
winners Jessica Niskar and Neil
children,
a brother and two brothers-
Rosenthal.
in-law.
Kirschenbaum will become the first
The Epstein family suggests
High School Athlete of the Year to
memorial
donations be made to the
be inducted into the Hall of Fame. In
Alzheimer's
Association, Detroit Area
1996, he broke Birmingham Groves'
Chapter,
in
Southfield;
Temple Shir
baseball records for batting average
Shalom
in
West
Bloomfield;
and the
(.518), home runs (10), RBI (54), stolen
Peter
&
Dorothy
Brown
Adult
Day Care
bases (33), hits (44) and runs (37) and
Program
in
West
Bloomfield.
All-American.
was named a USA Today
For more information on the din-
Nikki's At U M
ner and to purchase tickets, contact
Former
Okemos High School girls
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation
water
polo
star Nikki Baron is now a
Executive Director David Blatt at
freshman
goalie
on the University of
or
dblatt@michiganjewishsports.org
Michigan
women's
team.
(248) 592-9323. The foundation spon-
She
was
118-9
at
Okemos, which
sors the Hall of Fame and hosts the
won
state
championships
in 2010 and
dinner.
2011
and
finished
second
in
2012 while
Brown, a former Detroit Pistons
she
was
in
the
nets.
coach, will be the lead instructor at a
basketball clinic for youths ages 8-17
Kicking In California
from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday, Oct.
Adam
Carn-Saferstein is a fresh-
20, at the JCC in West Bloomfield.
man
midfielder
on the University of
Registration is $20, which includes a
California
at
Santa
Barbara men's soc-
or
call
T-shirt. Go to www.jccdet.org
cer
team.
Leah Worthy at (248) 432-5404.
He was a four-year starter at center
midfielder
at Ann Arbor Pioneer High
No Ordinary Joe
School,
which
went 16-2-4 in his senior
The area's sports community lost a
❑
season.
beloved former star athlete and coach
Oct. 1 when West Bloomfield resident
Please send sports news to sports@
Joe Epstein died at age 76 after a battle
thejewishnews.com.
with Alzheimer's disease.

Steve Stein
Contributing Writer

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