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winter tradition returns
Sunday, Jan. 20, to the JCC in
West Bloomfield. The 43rd
season of B’
nai B’
rith basketball will tip
off that day. Six teams are in the league,
the same as last year. A Great Lakes
Region team bowed out, but a new
Brotherhood team is taking its place.
Joining three-time defending cham-
pion Pisgah-Zeiger in the league this
year are three Brotherhood teams
along with Great Lakes Region and
Pisgah.
Regular-season games will be played
at 9, 10 and 11 a.m. Sundays for 10
weeks, followed by the playoffs, which
will be held on the final Sunday of the
season. The top four teams in the reg-
ular-season standings will make it to
the post-season.
Gary Klinger, who has been running
the league but not playing in it for the
past 10 years or so, will actually be
running in the league this season.
“I’
m going to be playing again with
the new Brotherhood team,
” said
Klinger, who played for about 25 years
before stopping because of family com-
mitments.
At a time when many recreation
sports leagues are struggling to survive,
the B’
nai B’
rith league has been hold-
ing strong at six teams for a few years.
“I see a couple reasons for that,
”
Klinger said. “One is the camaraderie.
We all know each other. Also, this is a
competitive league.
”
That competition certainly was evi-
dent in last year’
s playoff championship
game. Pisgah-Zeiger beat Brotherhood
III 53-49 in a game that Pisgah-Zeiger
coach Rick Sherline described as a
“heavyweight title fight.
”
“The lead changed hands four or
five times in the second half. Both
teams made clutch shot after clutch
shot,
” said Sherline, who has been play-
ing in the league since it was formed

in 1976.
Pisgah-Zeiger and Brotherhood III
played three times last season, splitting
their two regular-season games, and
the largest margin of victory was eight
points. Each team went 8-2 in the reg-
ular season and tied for first place.
Sherline is back as Pisgah-Zeiger’
s
coach. The other league coaches this
year are Rich Luger (Brotherhood I),
Jereme Goodman (Brotherhood II),
Justin Peters (Brotherhood III), Dan
Butler (Great Lakes Region) and Gregg
Schultz (Pisgah).

BACK TO NORMAL
Bowlers in the Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson B’
nai B’
rith league are rolling
good scores again.
“We struggled the first couple
months of the season, but the scores
have been great the past five weeks or
so,
” said league director Gary Klinger.
The major reason for the struggle
was the venue. The league is bowling
this season at 300 Bowl in Waterford
Township after calling Country Lanes
in Farmington Hills home since 1986.
“300 Bowl is a new or almost new
place for most of us in the league,
”
Klinger said. “It was like losing a home
field advantage when we left Country
Lanes. We have no complaints about
300 Bowl, though. They’
ve treated us
great.
”
Klinger said league bowlers will
vote in a few weeks to see if the league
will remain at 300 Bowl or return to
Country Lanes. He expects the vote to
be close.
The league left Country Lanes late
last season and went to 300 Bowl
after Country Lanes closed for about
a month following the death of its
owner. ■

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STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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