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Maccabi Games
Gold For Basketball
Players, Dancers

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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et’s continue our JCC Maccabi
Games & ArtsFest coverage
with these reports from the
games earlier this month in Orange
County, Calif.

mother as coach for the second year.
Sloan Lemberg, another former
four-year Detroit dancer, choreo-
graphed Detroit’s gold-medal winning
Israeli dance routine. Former
ABOVE: From left,
Detroit dancer Alana Appel
Coach Jeremy
BLUE GOLD
helped prepare Detroit’s
Fishman and players dancers for the games during
Detroit 14U boys basket-
Noah Kam, Alex
ball players Noah Kam,
rehearsals that led up to the
Mayoras and Carson trip to California.
Carson Brodsky and Alex
Brodsky on the gold
Mayoras brought home a
There will be more on the
medal-winning 14U
gold medal playing in the
Detroit dance team in an
boys basketball team.
Blue bracket.
upcoming Jewish News sports
They were on a mixed
column.
delegation team with players from
San Diego, San Jose and Peninsula/
DIAMOND DOINGS
Palo Alto in California and Louisville,
The 14U Detroit baseball team didn’t
Ky.
win a medal, but it did beat a Dallas
“Our team quickly forged a great
team that won a medal.
bond,” said Detroit’s Jeremy Fishman,
“Overall, our guys had a terrific
who was the coach.
experience and bonded as a team,”
Kam, Brodsky and Mayoras started
said Rabbi Jason Miller, Detroit’s
each of the team’s playoff games. Also
coach and a Maccabi athlete in the
on the team were Adam Lapinski
early 1990s.
(Louisville), Yosi Gallicot (San Diego),
There were 12 players on the
Jon Jon Antebi (Palo Alto), Zach
Detroit team in California, evenly
Berman (Palo Alto), Josh Posnock (San mixed between 13- and 14-year-olds.
Diego) and Max Fletcher (San Jose).
Miller said pitchers Jake Berg, Josh
Miller, Robbie Whelan, Jonah Farabi
DANCE STARS
and Jonah Shapiro were tough on the
Thirteen girls were on the Detroit
mound during Detroit’s five games.
dance team, the largest dance contin-
Jonah Cohen, Shay Cooney, Rusty
gent in recent years. The girls showed
Oddo, Shapiro and Miller led Detroit
that 13 isn’t an unlucky number, win-
at the plate. Max Friedman, Eddie
ning medals in 15 of 20 routines.
Eichenhorn, Austin Lipman, Asher
Four-year dancers Alex Mison and
Carrick, Berg and Cooney played well
Haley Whelan carried the Detroit del-
defensively. •
egation banner in the games’ opening
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ceremonies.
The other Detroit dancers were
Chloe Schram, Dani Gingras,
Emma Salle, Abby Chayet, Emma
Goldschmidt, Shayna Foreman,
Sophie Rosen, Nicole Spizizen, Rachel
Weiss, Mari Lynn and Cami Krugel.
Linda Taylor coached the Detroit
dance team for the fourth year. Her
daughter Melanie Taylor, a former
four-year Detroit dancer, joined her

The Detroit 14U baseball team

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