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Pat Siegal, Adam Fox, Mel Siegal and Sheryl Fox celebrate
Adam Fox winning the Jeff Fox Sportsmanship Award.

Steve Stein | Contributing Writer

S

ometimes everything works out
perfectly.
It happened this season in the
Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Softball
League, which presents the Jeff Fox
Sportsmanship Award each year.
Each team nominates a player and
because each nominee is worthy of the
honor, the winner is chosen in a drawing.
There were 17 nominees this year. The
winner was Adam Fox of Temple Shir
Shalom No. 1, the son of Jeff Fox, the
award’s namesake and a beloved former
Shir Shalom player who died in 2011.
Adam’s mother, Sheryl Fox, and
grandparents Mel and Pat Siegal were
at Community Sports Park in West
Bloomfield Aug. 7 to share in the joy
when Adam was presented the award.
A league picnic for players and their
families also was held that day, along with
12 playoff games.
When the dust settled, the playoffs
were down to a Final Four. League
semifinals, third-place and champion-
ship games will be played Aug. 21 at
Community Sports Park.
It will be No. 5 seed Congregation B’nai
Moshe vs. No. 1 seed Temple Israel and
No. 2 seed Temple Israel No. 2 vs. No. 3
seed Shir Shalom No. 1 in the semifinals
at 9 a.m. Third-place and championship
games will be at 10:20 a.m., with the
semifinal losers and winners colliding.
All four semifinalists were part of
a five-way tie for first place with 13-3
records in the league’s regular-season
standings. League directors needed to
apply several tie-breakers to determine
the No. 1 through No. 5 seeding for the
playoffs.
Seventeen teams are the most in the
league’s 21-year history.
No league games were played Aug. 14
so players could observe Tisha b’Av.

STAR DANCERS
Detroit dancers returned from the JCC
Maccabi Games in St. Louis this month
with lots of medals.
“It was a great Maccabi week,” said
Linda Taylor, the dancers’ coach.
Here are Detroit’s gold medal winners
along with age group and dance category:
• Melanie Taylor: 15-16 jazz solo and
modern solo.
• Alex Mison: 13-14 open solo.
• Sloan Lemberg: 15-16 open solo.
• Alana Appel, Alex Mison, Emma
Goldschmidt, Haley Whalen, Mari Lynn,
Melanie Taylor, Rachel Kruman and

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Sloan Lemberg: 13-14 open large group.
• Alex Mison and Haley Whelan: 13-14
open duo and 13-14 student choreogra-
phy.
Here are Detroit’s silver medal winners:
• Alana Appel, Alex Mison, Emma
Goldschmidt, Haley Whalen, Joey Organ,
Mari Lynn, Melanie Taylor, Rachel
Kruman and Sloan Lemberg: 13-14 Israeli
large group.
• Alana Appel, Alex Mison and Haley
Whalen: 13-14 jazz trio.
• Melanie Taylor and Sloan Lemberg:
15-16 jazz duo.
• Joey Organ: 13-14 modern solo.
• Alana Appel, Mari Lynn and Rachel
Kruman: 13-14 lyrical trio.
• Alana Appel: 13-14 student choreog-
raphy.
Here are Detroit’s bronze medal win-
ners:
• Emma Goldschmidt: 13-14 jazz solo.
• Haley Whalen: 13-14 hip-hop solo.
• Emma Goldschmidt: 13-14 open solo.
• Joey Organ: 13-14 lyrical solo.
• Sloan Lemberg: 15-16 lyrical solo.
• Joey Organ: 13-14 student choreog-
raphy.
• Sloan Lemberg: 15-16 student chore-
ography.
Melanie Taylor and Sloan Lemberg
each also received a Midot medal for
showing grace, kindness and sportsman-
ship.
Also in St. Louis, Detroit volleyball
players Sarah Lewis and Nia Kepes played
on a combined team with girls from St.
Louis, San Francisco and Chicago. The
team finished fourth among eight squads,
losing to Baca Raton, Fla., in the bronze
medal match.
Watch for more Detroit Maccabi news
in upcoming sports columns.

GO SEE THE TIGERS
Tickets are still available for B’nai B’rith
Great Lakes Region’s 38th annual day at a
Detroit Tigers game Aug. 28. The Tigers
will face the Los Angeles Angels at 1:10
p.m. at Comerica Park.
A portion of the ticket price allows
guests from Jewish Family Service and
other not-for-profit organizations to
attend the game. Tickets are $40 for
Kaline’s Corner and bleacher seats and
$60 for lower baseline box seats. Each
includes a $19 donation.
To purchase tickets, contact Jim Grey
at (248) 739-9070 or GreyCo@aol.com
or call the B’nai B’rith office at (248) 646-
3100.

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