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Two Pins From The Top
Dave Shanbaum threw an 813 series
Oct. 29 in the Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson League. It was the second-
highest series in league history behind a
815 rolled Jan. 9 by Barry Fishman.

Net Worth
Victories were few and far between this
fall for the nine players in grades 5-8 on
the Southfield-based Akiva Hebrew Day
School boys tennis team, but there was
no lack of tenacity.
"The boys played teams that were
bigger, better and older, but they never
gave up:' said co-coach Laura Stern.
"They were enthusiastic, optimistic
and scrappy, and they displayed great
sportsmanship. The season extended
until the last week of October because
of the holidays and the boys had to
play in blustery weather, but that didn't
bother them.
"What's great about tennis is these
boys can play it as a lifetime sport:'
Stern said. "They don't have to stop after
an eight-week season. It isn't an expen-
sive sport. All you need is a racquet,
some tennis balls and an opponent:'
Akiva's opponents this fall included
Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills,
Grosse Pointe Academy and Ann Arbor
Greenhills, which brought 17 of its 34
players to the match.
Practices were held twice a week at
nearby Southfield-Lathrup High School.
Home matches were played there and at
the Detroit Tennis and Squash Club in
Farmington Hills.

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Akiva tennis team:
Louis Schwartz,
Coach Bryan
Weinstein and son
Jed Weinstein,
Coach Laura Stern
and grandson Ezra
Klausner, Yoni
Katz, Sven Skinner,

and Mikey Stebbins.
(Not pictured: Josh
Kornblum.)

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November 22 • 2012

ne measly pin.
That's all that separated
bowler Sam Mauch from
his first 300 game. The 34-year-old
Birmingham resident rolled a 299 on
Nov. 12 in the B'nai B'rith Brotherhood-
Eddie Jacobson League.
After bowling 11 consecutive strikes,
Mauch needed one more for a perfect
game. But with just
about the entire
league cheering
him on, he left a
10-pin.
"I looked perfec-
tion in the eye and
came up just short:'
Sam Mauch
he said. "It was a
high hit on the final
ball. I didn't throw it hard enough:'
Mauch's 299 was the 12th in league
history. There have been 17 300s
thrown since the league was formed in
1961.
While coming excruciatingly close to
a 300 game was disappointing, Mauch
couldn't complain about the rest of his
night at Country Lanes in Farmington
Hills.
He threw a 194-299-258 — 751
series, very good for a guy with a 189
average. He rolled 25 strikes in the three
games and had just three open frames.
They came in the first four frames of
the first game.
How did Mauch do after his 299?
The right-hander threw a spare in
first frame of the third game, then five
straight strikes.
"I was very happy with how I bowled
that night:' he said. "I got off to a slow
start, then I really bowled well:'
Mauch said his closest previous brush
with a 300 game was a 279 he bowled
while he was in college at the University

of Texas. The Dallas native has been
bowling in leagues off and on since he
was in high school.
He's an attorney with the Birmingham
law firm of Saretsky Hart Michaels &
Gould, specializing in securities litiga-
tion.

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