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We deal in jewelry, watches, diamonds and coins. k Service Private Owners, Banks & Estate coast cg pecoettl Contact Larry A 33700 Woodward Ave. • Between Mile & Ada 248-644-8565 60 October 16 • 2014 0510 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. ❑ Send sports news to steyestein502004@ yahoo.com.