sports » Good Sports 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 2117650 44 August 18 • 2016 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. * Send sports news to stevestein502004@yahoo.com.