sports

A ‘Lasson’ In
Sportsmanship

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Yaakov Lasson
Rusgo.
shows off the
• Temple Beth El —
trophy he received
Andy Broder.
for winning
• Temple Kol
the Jeff Fox
Ami/B’nai Israel
Sportsmanship
Synagogue — Evan
Award.
Chudnow.
• Congregation
Shaarey Zedek — Alex
Gruskin.
• Temple Beth Ahm — Ryan Baxter.
• Congregation B’nai Moshe — Joey
Yashinsky.
• Bais Chabad Torah Center — Jacob
Taylor.
The league’s fall season began Sunday
at Community Sports Park. There are six
teams. Each has players from different
synagogues.
For more information on the league,
go to www.mensclubsoftball.org.

Off To Waterford
The Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai
B’rith bowling league is on the move. At
least for one season.
After 32 seasons at Country Lanes in
Farmington Hills, the league will set up
shop at 300 Bowl in Waterford during
the 2018-2019 season.
The league finished its 2017-2018
season at 300 Bowl after Country Lanes
closed temporarily because of the death
of its owner.
So, a decision had to be made. Stay at
300 Bowl or return to Country Lanes?
League spokesman Gary Klinger said
league members voted 60 percent to 40
percent to go to 300 Bowl.
“It was a big decision. There were
pros and cons on both sides,” Klinger
said. “The bottom line is going back to
Country Lanes is too risky right now.
We’re going to 300 Bowl for one year.
We’ll see what happens after this sea-
son.”
Klinger said the league lost a couple
teams because team members would
have had a longer drive to 300 Bowl than
Country Lanes, but the addition of a few
teams should keep the league’s lineup
fairly stable.
Bowling will begin at 7:30 p.m., each
Monday in the weekly league instead of
8:15 p.m. because of the increased travel
time for many league bowlers.
“We should be done bowling by 10:15
or so each night,” Klinger said. “We were
done about 11 each week at Country
Lanes.”
Opening night will be Sept. 17. •

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portsmanship can take on many
forms.
For Yaakov Lasson, sports-
manship this season in the Inter-
Congregational Men’s Club Summer
Softball League meant, in his words,
taking ownership of his Young Israel of
Southfield team off the field.
He took it upon himself many weeks
to make sure the team had enough play-
ers to compete.
Most players on the team’s roster live
in Southfield. Many games were played
a substantial drive away at Community
Sports Park in West Bloomfield.
“Yaakov showed a tremendous
dedication to the team,” said Young
Israel of Southfield manager Daniel
Khodorkovsky.
“I wanted to be a positive, consistent
member of the team,” Lasson said.
Lasson became a member of a pres-
tigious group this season. He’s the
latest winner of the league’s Jeff Fox
Sportsmanship Award, named for a
former Temple Shir Shalom player who
died in 2011.
Lasson said he was honored to receive
the award. He’s a big fan of the league.
“It’s a great opportunity for players to
connect with people from other syna-
gogues,” he said. “Our guys love playing
in the league.”
Young Israel of Southfield won the
playoff championship in the Rosen
Division after going 7-10-1 during the
regular season.
When he isn’t playing softball,
Lasson is the rabbi at the Fleischman
Residence/Blumberg Plaza of Jewish
Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit in
West Bloomfield.
Each Inter-Congregational Softball
League team is asked to nominate a
player for the Fox Award, and the winner
is selected at random.
Here were the other nominees for 2018
and their teams:
• Temple Israel No. 1 — Loren
Blumberg.
• Temple Israel No. 2 — Ryan
Schneider.
• Temple Israel No. 3 — Mark Jacobs.
• Temple Israel No. 4 — Jonathon
Frohlich.
• Temple Israel No. 5 — Mark Riley.
• Temple Israel No. 6 — Nathan Cohen.
• Temple Shir Shalom No. 1 — Matt
Steyer.
• Temple Shir Shalom No. 2 — Dan
Knauss.
• Adat Shalom Synagogue No. 2 —
Zach Rich.
• Congregation Shir Tikvah — Josh

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