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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 
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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 
worldwide record.

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 

