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May 8 • 2014

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he B'nai B'rith Downtown Fox
bowling league has gone from
the brink of extinction to the
brink of something big.
With only seven teams expected to
return this season and dissolution or
merger with another B'nai B'rith league
distinct possibilities, league President
Justin Kaplan led an aggressive recruit-
ing campaign that resulted in 14 teams
playing in the first half of the year.
Consolidation to 12 teams for the
second half didn't slow the league's
progress.
"We had 12 strong teams:' Kaplan
said.
The revival came full circle last week
at the post-season banquet when Sy
Zate, who bowled in the league for
nearly 60 years, presented the champi-
onship trophy named in his honor to
the winning team.
"Sy is the godfather of our league
Kaplan said. "He worked so hard for so
many years to keep it together. We had
to keep the league alive to honor him:'
The champion team — and win-
ner of the second-half title — was
Sternberg & Company. Scott Berger,
Mike Sternberg and brothers Marc and
Ryan Weiss were on the team.
The Jets won the first-half champion-
ship. Mark Fineberg, David Kolb, Bob
Smith and Bob Weiss were on the team.
Matt Kolb (David Kolb's son) threw
the league's lone 300 game. Mike
Frankfort (284) and Kaplan (279) also
had high-scoring games at Drakeshire
Lanes in Farmington Hills, the league's
home each Tuesday night from October
through April.
"It was a successful season, one of
our best in years:' said Kaplan, who was
re-elected president at the banquet.
"That's the most teams we've had
in some time. We need to continue to
recruit bowlers and teams. Maybe we
can have 16 or 18 teams next year:'
Kaplan said bowlers' averages this
season ranged from around 100 to 217
(handicaps were used in scoring). Most
teams had four bowlers. Some had five
or six.
Bowlers interested in joining the
nearly 100-year-old league can call
Kaplan at (248) 672-0818.

Downtown Fox's Mike Sternberg, Marc

Weiss, Scott Berger and Ryan Weiss

JCC Golf Classic
Karen Gordon directed the 2008 JCC
Maccabi Games when it was held in
Detroit.
Six years later, she's co-chair of the
JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest that the
JCC of Metropolitan Detroit will host in
August.
Those prominent leadership roles are
major reasons why she'll be honored
June 2 at the 21st annual Dr. Larry
D. Sills Memorial JCC Golf Classic
at Meadowbrook Country Club in
Northville.
The outing is a benefit for the JCC's
Send a Kid to Camp scholarship fund.
Gordon also is
a longtime Detroit
Maccabi coach and
delegation head and
she was a JCC camp
counselor.
Last fall, she
received a Pillar of
Karen Gordon
Excellence award
from the Michigan
Jewish Sports Foundation at its
Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
induction banquet.
A math teacher at Ferndale High
School, she lives in West Bloomfield.
The Sills family endows the outing
in honor of their son and brother, who
died in a plane crash in 1987.
The outing has raised $1.8 million in
the last 11 years so children can attend
JCC summer camps.
More than 1,000 campers were
enrolled last summer. Thanks to dona-
tions and the outing, 348 families
received financial assistance totaling
nearly $410,000.
Outing packages start at $295.
Registration and lunch will be at 11
a.m. A shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. will
be followed by a silent auction at 5:30
p.m. and live auction and program hon-
oring Gordon at 6:30 p.m.
To make reservations, buy raffle
tickets and learn about sponsorship
opportunities, contact Paul Barker, the
JCC's director of program development,
at (248) 432-5538 or pbarker@jccdet.
org.

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