The Jeters, champion team of the Inter-Congregational Men's Club fall softball
league
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ew York Yankees star Derek
Jeter retired this season.
The Jeters team in the Inter-
Congregational Men's Club fall softball
league wasn't the retiring sort.
Manager Victor Uzansky's team won
the league championship, beating the first-
and second-place teams from the regular
season (Bad News Jews and Marble Rye)
in the playoffs Sunday at Drake Sports
Park in West Bloomfield in a remarkable
three-game run to the title.
Jeters finished 3-7 during the regular
season. Bad News Jews and Marble Rye
were a combined 18-2. Jeters beat Bad
News Jews and Marble Rye by a combined
41-11 in the playoffs.
"They [Jeters] hit the ball well Sunday.
They crushed it. Give them credit:' said
Steve Achtman, league organizer and Bad
News Jews manager.
Bad News Jews went 10-0 during the
regular season and earned the No. 1 seed
in the playoffs.
They were followed in the regular-
season standings by Marble Rye (8-2),
Dances With Softballs (4-6), Kosher Ribs
(4-6), Jeters and The Sandlot (1-9).
This was the second year for the league
and it once again had six teams made up
of players from the inter-congregational
summer league.
Players compete for their temple or shut
during the summer. They're on their own
in the fall.
Achtman from Temple Israel and
Howard Rosner from Temple Shir Shalom
formed the teams this season.
They kept returning players with the
same manager from last year if requested
and mixed in new players based on their
skill levels, trying to keep the league com-
petitive.
After five weeks of doubleheaders this
fall at Drake Sports Park — also the sum-
mer league site — it was time for the
playoffs.
All six teams made the single-elimina-
tion post-season, with the top two seeds
(Bad News Jews and Marble Rye) earning
byes.
In opening-round games, Dances With
Softballs beat The Sandlot 23-4, and Jeters
played its closest game of the playoffs,
squeaking past Kosher Ribs 12-10.
Jeters' first upset came in the semifi-
nals, a 16-4 win over the Bad News Jews.
Marble Rye beat Dances With Softballs
14-9 in the other semifinal, setting up the
championship game against Jeters.
Winning is important in the slimmed-
down, mixed-up version of the summer
league, but it isn't everything.
"It's a competitive league but also fun
because you're competing against your
friends:' Achtman said.
Will the league grow beyond six teams?
That's difficult to say. Achtman said run-
ning a league this size is a lot of work.
He is thinking of suspending the free
substitution rule for the playoffs and
requiring players to appear in at least one-
third of their team's regular-season teams
to be eligible for the playoffs.
The substitution rule allows teams to
bring in players on a day when they're
missing players.
Names in the News
• Tennis pro Aaron Krickstein of Grosse
Pointe is on the list of nominees for the
2015 Michigan Sports Hall of Fame induc-
tion class.
The public can vote on the
Hall of Fame's website at www.
MichiganSportsHOF.org through Monday,
Oct. 20. The 2015 class will be announced
Tuesday, Oct 28, and inducted in
February 2015.
Krickstein, 47, was ranked No. 6 in the
world in February 1990 after advancing to
the fourth round at Wimbledon and the
semifinals of the U.S. Open in 1989.
• Berkley High School star Jon Radner
was named one of the "Juniors of
Influence" on the 2013-2014 Jewish Sports
Review boys high school basketball All-
America team.
The 5-foot-10 shooting guard from
Huntington Woods averaged 27 points,
five rebounds, four assists and two steals
per game for the Bears. He was an All-
State honorable mention selection.
• Northwestern University senior men's
soccer midfielder Eric Weberman from
North Farmington High School scored
a goal earlier this month at Northern
Illinois that caught the attention of
opposing goalie Andrew Glaeser.
"[There] was kind of a scrum at the
top of the box. The ball popped out to
(Weberman). He took a touch and hit
a dime in the top corner:' Glaeser told
the Northern Star, a student-produced
newspaper.
The goal in the 43rd minute gave
No. 24-ranked Northwestern (6-1-4) an
early lead. The Wildcats won 2-0. ❑
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