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Jewish members
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hockey team:
Jack Blumberg,
Blake Rogow,
Nolan Rogow,
Spencer
Applebaum and
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pencer Applebaum didn't mind
being the last line of defense
this season for the state cham-
pion Cranbrook-Kingswood High School
hockey team.
"The best part about being a goalie
is you can be a game-changer for your
team; he said. "There's pressure, of
course, but I like it:'
Applebaum had an outstanding senior
year for the Cranes (25-2-4), who won
the Michigan High School Athletic
Association Division 3 state title.
He was 18-3 in 24 games with six shut-
outs, a 1.71 goals-against average and .916
save percentage.
His work was appreciated by Cranbrook-
Kingswood coach Andy Weidenbach.
"Spencer was resilient and calm under
pressure. He didn't panic," he said. "He's a
gamer"
He was a gamer all three years he
played for Bloomfield Hills-based
Cranbrook-Kingswood. He was the
Cranes' goalie in most of their big games
when he was a sophomore and junior.
Senior forward Blake Rogow was one of
the Cranes' top penalty-killers this season.
He said having Applebaum in the nets
allowed him to do his job better.
"You weren't afraid of making a mis-
take; he said. "If you couldn't clear the
puck out of the zone, you knew Spencer
can deal with flurries around the net:'
The Michigan High School Hockey
Coaches Association named Applebaum
to its Division 3 All-State First Team,
and he was selected to the Michigan
Interscholastic Hockey League's all-league
team.
Applebaum has been a goalie in com-
petitive hockey since he was 5 or 6 years
old. That may come to an end next school
year, when he attends Miami (Ohio)
University.
He's been accepted into the prestigious
Farmer School of Business. As for hockey,
he's thinking of become a student-man-
ager or video specialist for the school's
NCAA Division I team or play on the club
squad.
Applebaum is a centerfielder this spring
for the Cranbrook-Kingswood baseball
team. He played baseball for Detroit in the
2012 JCC Maccabi Games in Houston.
Two of Applebaum's backup goalies
on the Cranbrook-Kingswood hockey
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team this season also are Jewish. They
are juniors Nolan Rogow and Stephen
Friedland. Each played in one game, with
Friedland getting a shutout
"Nolan and Stephen are well-liked and
respected, and bring a lot of energy to the
team; Weidenbach said.
Both will be in the battle to determine
Cranbrook-Kingswood's No. 1 goalie next
season. Weidenbach anticipates four or
five goalies will have a shot at replacing
Applebaum.
The three goalies, Blake Rogow (10
goals, 10 assists) and defenseman-power
play specialist Jack Blumberg (18 goals, 13
assists) made up the Cranes' Jewish con-
tingent this year.
Blake Rogow said he enjoyed his penal-
ty-killing role.
"What you do doesn't show up on the
stat sheet and the casual fan doesn't usu-
ally see it; he said.
"But I take pride in the fact that my
teammates and coaches knew what I did.
I'm glad I found my niche on the team:'
His competitive hockey career likely
is over. Rogow is planning to attend the
University of Michigan or Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tenn.
Six In A Row
Make it six straight B'nai B'rith basketball
championships for Downtown Fox.
The latest came last month when
Downtown Fox beat Pisgah-Zeiger
75-50 in the league's playoff title game at
the Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield.
Downtown Fox defeated Brotherhood
I 71-50 and Pisgah-Zeiger topped Great
Lakes Region 73-54 in the semifinals.
Bruce Nosanchuk is the Downtown
Fox coach. His roster this season included
Steven Banks, Kevin Giles, Matt Chasnick,
Russ Kacin, Adam Kresch, Ed Szmlanski,
Keno all Walton, Chris Warfield and Eric
Wolfe. Warfield was named the five-team
league's MVP
League Director Gary Klinger hopes to
have a sixth team on board next year.
Players are needed for the nine-hole
weekly B'nai B'rith golf league, which will
begin April 23 at the Links of Novi. A
maximum 20 golfers can participate and
12 had signed up as of last week.
Interested? Contact Klinger at (248)
229-1816 or gkslurpee@aol.com .
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