January 17 • 2019 21
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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

It’s Tipoff Time for B’nai 
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