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The Detroit hockey team
that competed at the
JCC Maccabi Games &
ArtsFest in California
Perseverance Pays Off
For Female Hockey Player
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August 16 • 2018
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he first results from Detroit are
in from the JCC Maccabi Games
& ArtsFest in Orange County,
Calif., and they’re as cold as ice.
The Detroit hockey team reached
the quarterfinals of the 11-team com-
petition last week but didn’t advance
any further and fell one victory short
of making it to the medal round.
Mark Weiss and Mark Berke were
the team’s coaches.
Players were Ryan Becker, Ryan
Berke, Jacob Budabin, Henry
Ellenbogen, Alex Engel, Ty Esterline,
Jenner Leib, Morgan Leib, Adin
Lofman, Lance Markowitz, Jonah
Stein, Jonah Stern, Robert Victor and
David Wrotslavsky.
Forward Morgan
Leib became the first
girl to play hockey
for Detroit and only
the second girl to
play the sport since
it became part of the
Maccabi Games in
Morgan Leib
2016.
The other girl is
Hannah Goldenberg,
a goalie for Stamford, Conn. She’s
played all three years.
Morgan made history through her
perseverance. She tried out last year
but was cut from what turned out to
be a veteran squad.
She turned the negative into a posi-
tive, making hockey an even bigger
priority in her life and ramping up
her determination to play hockey for
Detroit in the Maccabi Games.
“Getting cut last year was a huge
motivating factor in my desire to make
the team this year,” she said. “When
you fail, you have to get better and
complete the task.”
Weiss said he saw a different player
this year when Morgan tried out.
“She was older and stronger, of
course, and she had a better sense of
the game to go along with her work
ethic and passion,” Weiss said.
Morgan started playing hockey
when she was 8 and made her first
travel hockey team when she was 11.
She transferred from North
Farmington High School to the
Detroit Hockey Academy in Wixom
in January. She plays on the Little
Caesars AAA U19 hockey team.
“I love my new school,” the 16-year-
old Farmington Hills resident said.
“I wasn’t nervous when I went to
Maccabi tryouts this year. I was
confident because I had trained and
worked so hard, and I play against
guys every day at school.”
A 3.7 GPA student, Morgan is setting
her sights on playing college hockey at
a school where she can pursue her off-
ice goal of going into the medical field,
most likely in pediatrics.
She’s the daughter of Eric and Jodi
Leib and big sister to Noah, 14.
SUPER BOWL FOR SOFTBALL
It may not be Super Bowl Sunday,
but Championship Sunday is just
as important to players in the Inter-
Congregational Men’s Club Summer
Softball League.
Three division playoff cham-
pions will be crowned Sunday at
Community Sports Park in West
Bloomfield.
All six teams in each division made
the playoffs. The participants in
Sunday’s championship games were
determined this past Sunday, when
the first two rounds of playoff games
were held.
Here’s the lineup for Sunday:
• Temple Shir Shalom No. 2 vs.
Young Israel of Southfield at 9 a.m. for
the Rosen Division title.
• Temple Israel No. 6 vs. Temple
Israel No. 2 at 10:20 a.m. for the
Greenberg Division title.
• Congregation Shir Tikvah vs.
Temple Beth El at 11:40 a.m. for the
Koufax Division title.
All three regular-season division
champions (Shir Shalom No. 2, Temple
Israel No. 6 and Shir Tikvah) will play
for division titles.
For more information on the league,
go to mensclubsoftball.org. •
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