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December 25 • 2014
I is the end of 2014, time to reflect on
the most newsworthy local Jewish
sports stories of the year.
Here's a look back at the first half of
2014. A list of the top stories of the sec-
ond half of the year will be in next week's
sports column.
A True Champion
A magnanimous gesture warmed a
cold, snowy night Jan. 26 at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield.
David Jaffa, winner of the 15th annual
Texas Hold'em poker tournament hosted
by the Pisgah-Zeiger and Bloch-Israel B'nai
B'rith lodges, donated his hard-earned
$700 first prize to the new B'nai B'rith
Great Lakes Region scholarship fund.
"Unbelievably generous" is how tourna-
ment spokesman Rick Sherline described
the donation.
"It was an honor and a pleasure said
Jaffa, 67, of Bloomfield Hills, a longtime
B'nai B'rith member and supporter and
former president of the Harry B. Keidan
Lodge.
He won the poker title among 50 com-
petitors. It was his second B'nai B'rith tour-
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Cancer survivor Jeff Ellis of West
Bloomfield did something amazing in
January at the Michigan Senior Olympics
weightlifting competition at the Rochester
Athletic Club.
He won his seventh Senior Olympics
gold medal in weightlifting with a record-
breaking bench press of 320 pounds in the
55-59 age group.
It was his middle-age best bench press
"and a weight I haven't benched in more
than 20 years:' said the former Michigan
State University weightlifting standout.
Ellis was diagnosed with colon cancer
in 2009.
Inclusive Basketball
Special needs youngsters from Friendship
Circle played on the same teams with non-
special needs athletes from i9 Sports in
an inclusive basketball league that broke
ground for both organizations.
Seventy-two players went through drills
and competed with appropriate rules in
three age divisions on seven Sundays in
Friendship Circle's Florene Elkus &
Edward Elkus Memorial Gym in West
Bloomfield.
i9 Sports, based in Florida, focuses on
Golfers Judy and Walter
Coleman shot their first
holes-in-one less than a
month apart.
children who want to play sports, but not
at a highly competitive level.
"We decided to work with i9 Sports
because they have the same values as we
do. We want sports to be inclusive and
fun, with the emphasis away from the
scoreboard:' said Catie Quinn, Friendship
Circle's program manager.
Briefly ...
• Downtown Fox won its fifth straight
B'nai B'rith basketball league champion-
ship thanks to a 49-39 win over Pisgah-
Zeiger in the playoff title game at the JCC
in West Bloomfield.
• Longtime golfers Judy and Walter
Coleman of Keego Harbor shot their first
holes-in-one less than a month apart
— March 13 and April 8 — at the same
Boynton Beach, Fla., golf community
where they spend time off and on during
the winter.
• Harrison Milen and Brett Kramer
helped the North Farmington High School
baseball team win its second straight
Oakland Activities Association White
Division championship. Each also pitched
an inning May 1 at Comerica Park during
a 7-3 win over Bullock Creek.
• Andrew Cahn, a former Michigan Mr.
Tennis from West Bloomfield High School,
went a team-best 20-13 in doubles for
Western Michigan University in his sopho-
more season on the men's tennis squad.
• About 50 players in the
InterCongregational Men's Club Summer
Softball League took time out from their
regular-season schedule on the Sunday
of Memorial Day weekend to raise $290
for West Bloomfield Relay for Life. Each
player donated a minimum $5 to play
exhibition softball games.
• Western Michigan University sopho-
more relief pitcher Gabe Berman from
Bloomfield Hills Andover High School had
a 2.62 ERA and nine saves in 23 games for
the baseball Broncos. He struck out 41 in
34 1/3 innings.
• Coach Barry Brodsky led the
Birmingham Marian High School girls
soccer team to the Michigan High School
Athletic Association Division 2 state cham-
pionship game but lost 2-1 to Richland
Gull Lake. Marian finished 19-1-1.
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