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May 17 • 2018

jn

he Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson B’nai B’rith bowl-
ing league has been compet-
ing weekly at Country Lanes in
Farmington Hills since 1986.
But the league had to find a new
home — quickly — late this season
when Country Lanes closed for about
a month following the sudden death
of its owner.
The league moved to 300 Bowl in
Waterford Township, “mostly because
it was available,” said league spokes-
man Gary Klinger.
The final week of the regular season
and the three weeks of playoffs were
bowled at 300 Bowl.
“We’re going back to 300 Bowl
next season,” Klinger said. “It would
be risky to return to Country Lanes.
There are a lot of unknowns there.
Hopefully, most of our guys can make
the move.”
Klinger’s team won the league
championship for the second straight
season, rolling past the five other
teams that made the playoffs.
Matt Rappaport, Ben Shapiro and
Aubrey Topper are Klinger’s team-
mates. Their team name this season
was Neinandtenn, an homage to win-
ning the league title in 2017 on lanes 9
and 10 at Country Lanes.
The team called itself Kling and His
Court in 2017. Fast-pitch softball fans
may remember the famous King and
His Court, a four-man team featur-
ing pitching great Eddie “The King”
Feigner that beat full teams across
the country from the late 1940s to the
early 21st century.
There were 18 teams in the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson league
this season, divided once again into
four divisions.
The season is divided into two
halves. The winner of each division in
each half of the season earns a berth
in the playoffs. Because two teams
won both halves in their division this
year, only six teams made it to the
postseason.
Neinandtenn won the Red Wings
Division championship in both halves,
and the Dream Team won the Pistons
Division championship in both halves.
Each team earned a bye in the playoff
quarterfinals.
“It’s been a while since we had two
byes in the playoffs,” Klinger said.
“We’ve never had more than two byes.”
House Balls and Older Than Dirt
were the first- and second-half win-
ners in the Lions Division. Ten Pin
Commandments and Mix ‘n’ Match

Meet the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai
B’rith bowling league champions. From left are
Matt Rappaport, Ben Shapiro, Gary Klinger and
Aubrey Topper.

were the first- and second-half cham-
pions in the Tigers Division.
After its bye, Neinandtenn defeated
the House Balls 17-7 in the playoff
semifinals. Ten Pin Commandments
beat the Dream Team 14-10 in the
other semifinal match.
It came down to Neinandtenn
vs. Ten Pin Commandments in the
championship match April 30 and
Neinandtenn won 18-6.
“Our team had a great season.
A couple of us had one of our best
years,” Klinger said. “It’s fun to be on
the team. We’re good friends and we
have fun.”
This was the fourth year the team
was together.
“We didn’t come close at all to win-
ning the league championship the
first two years,” Klinger said. “Bowling
is fickle.”

WHAT A RELIEF
Emory University freshman pitcher
Jacqueline Spizizen from West
Bloomfield came on in relief May 12
and earned the victory in her team’s
4-2 win over Lynchburg in an elimina-
tion game of the Atlanta Regional in
the NCAA Division III softball tourna-
ment.
Spizizen relieved Emory starter
Madison Schaefer in the second
inning and didn’t give a run the rest of
the game. She allowed seven hits and
fanned six in six innings.
Down 2-0, Emory (29-11) scored
four unanswered runs including two
in the top of the seventh that broke a
2-2 tie.
Lynchburg (30-14) had two runners
on base in the bottom of the seventh
when Spizizen, a Detroit Country Day
School graduate, struck out the final
batter. •

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