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N
ot many 24-year-olds make history.
But that’
s exactly what Aaron Radner
did March 18 at 300 Bowl in Waterford
Township.
Radner rolled a 258-300-300 — 858 series in
the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’
nai B’
rith
bowling league. It’
s the highest series in not only
the 58-year history of the league, but in the histo-
ry of B’
nai B’
rith bowling worldwide.
Radner threw 24 consecutive strikes to end his
night after leaving the nine pin on his final ball of
the first game. He had strikes in 33 of 36 frames
over three games.
There was no luck involved for the youngest
bowler in the league, and former outstanding bowler
at North Farmington High School and Michigan State
University.
“My ball hit in the right spot on each strike,
” Radner said.
“There were one or two times when a pin was left standing
and it got kicked out, but that was it.
”
Longtime B’
nai B’
rith bowler and Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson league historian Gary Klinger watched Radner’
s
record-breaking night unfold from the next set of lanes.
“It was hard to believe,
” Klinger said. “
Aaron buried
every shot. Each of his strikes was right in the pocket. He’
s
such a smooth bowler. His style is picture perfect.
”
When it was all over, Radner said, he walked away from the lanes to be
by himself for a while and tried to let the moment sink it.
“It wasn’
t until the next day that what I had done hit me,
” the
Farmington Hills resident said.
By then, his phone was blowing up with congratulatory calls and texts
from family, friends and bowlers. And he had to focus on his job as an
accountant for a Plymouth company.
While the back-to-back 300 games was quite a feat, it was the 800 series
that Radner was most excited about because it was the first of his career.
“It’
s much more difficult to put together an 800 series than
bowl a 300 game,
” he said. “
As someone said to me, it’
s
very easy not to bowl an 800 series. All it takes it a cou-
ple of bad frames.
”
Radner’
s 800 series was only the seventh in
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson league history. The
previous high league series was 279-246-290 —
815 bowled in 2012 by Barry Fishman.
There have been 34 perfect games in the
league, including four this season. The first
300 game in league history was by Eric
Goldberg in 1997.
Only twice has a Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson bowler had two 300 games in a
season. Rick Reznik did it in 2007 and 2008.
Radner did it in one night.
It was the 800 series, not another 300
game, that was on Radner’
s mind as he began
his third game back in March.
“I’
d thrown an 800 series in practice, but never in
competition,
” he said. “
After I threw five or six strikes to
start the third game, I knew I had a great chance to get an
800 series, so I focused on getting another 300 game.
”
Radner now has four career 300 games, all rolled in the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson league. Each was bowled in
March.
The first two were in 2015 and 2018. He was only
20 and bowling as a substitute in the league when he
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Detroit Country Day
School three-sport
star Elle Hartje, who
plays tennis, soccer
and hockey for the
Yellowjackets, has
signed to play wom-
en’
s hockey at Yale
University.
Outside of school, Hartje has
been a member of state, national
and International Silver Stick
championship hockey teams,
she played for the U.S. Under-18
Women’
s Select hockey team at
the 2018 U18 Series vs. Canada
in Calgary in 2018 and she
attended USA Hockey’
s
Girls Under-18 Select
Player Development
Camp in 2017 and
2018.
Her Belle Tire 19U
team won the Michigan
Amateur Hockey
Association state cham-
pionship in March and she was
the leading scorer in the tour-
nament.
Hartje was one of six finalists
for the Detroit Athletic Club’
s
girls high school athlete of
the year award, which was
announced May 13.
Perfect
Times Two
B’
nai B’
rith bowler sets
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STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
quick hits
LEFT: Aaron Radner shows off the bowling ball he used
to roll the 33 strikes in his 258-300-300—858 series.
Kalamazoo College women’
s
lacrosse player Amanda
Moss was named to the
All-Michigan Intercollegiate
Athletic Association second
team.
Moss, a senior from
Bloomfield Hills, was second
on the Kalamazoo team in
goals and points and she led
the Hornets in assists for the fourth straight year.
She started all 60 games of her Kalamazoo
career and finished with school records of 55
assists and 164 points. She had 109 career goals.
Moss also made the All-MIAA second team as a
sophomore.
Jordan Anstandig hit two home runs for
the Alma College baseball team, but the West
Bloomfield resident couldn’
t prevent the Scots
from losing a doubleheader last month to
Hope.
Hope won 7-6 on a walk-off in each game.
Anstandig’
s solo homer with two out in the
ninth inning in the opener tied the game.
Coach Barry Brodsky and his Birmingham
Marian High School girls soccer team are tak-
ing aim at their third consecutive state cham-
pionship and third straight Catholic League
Division I title.
Marian beat Grand Rapids Forest Hills
Northern 2-1 in 2017 and 4-2 in 2018 in the
last two Division 2 state championship games.
BY STEVE STEIN