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Detroit Curling Club tournament as a 
warm-up and training session for the 
major competition.
The best the Israeli team has done in 
the Group B Championships through 
the years is fourth place in back-to-back 
tournaments a few years ago.
The Detroit Curling Club bonspiel 
will have a maximum eight teams and 
32 players. There’
s a five-game guaran-
tee and the minimum donation to play 
is $150 a player ($200 Canadian).
There will be a dinner at 7 p.m. 
Friday, Oct. 25, and competition will 
begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, and 
noon Sunday, Oct. 27. The tournament 
entry fee includes the Friday dinner and 
lunch and dinner Saturday.

Players can register online at 
israelcurling.eventbrite.co.uk. For 
more information, send an email to 
israelcurling@gmail.com.
The Israel Curling Federation, found-
ed in 2007, is a not-for-profit orga-
nization that promotes curling in the 
country. It sponsors several other Israel 
national curling teams including mixed, 
senior and wheelchair squads.
The Detroit Curling Club, founded in 
1885, is one of the oldest curling clubs 
in the United States.
Its facility at 1615 E. Lewiston Ave. 
in Ferndale, which opened in 2002, 
has four sheets of ice and is used as a 
community center in the summer, when 
there is no curling there because of the 

warm temperatures.
Most bonspiels were held outdoors 
until the 20th century. Now most bon-
spiels are indoors. 

Meet the Israel national men’
s curling team. From 
left are Simon Pack, Larry Sidney, Aaron Horowitz 
and Alex Pokras.

L 
arry Kaplan and Steve Matz swim regularly 
at the Jewish Community Center in West 
Bloomfield.
All that hard work in the water paid 
off this summer when Kaplan competed 
at the National Senior Games in June in 
Albuquerque, N.M., and Matz swam in the 
Michigan Senior Olympics in August at 
Oakland University.
Kaplan, 63, of Farmington Hills, swam 
personal-best times in every event he 
entered and earned a ribbon for being a part 
of a seventh-place 200-yard mixed medley 
relay team at the nationals.
Matz, 67, of Franklin, won two gold med-
als and a silver medal at the Michigan Senior 
Olympics and set a meet record for the sec-
ond time.
Competing in the men’
s 60-64 age group 
in Albuquerque, Kaplan was 21st of 31 
swimmers in the 50 breaststroke (:42.57), 
19th of 25 swimmers in the 100 breaststroke 
(1:36.02), 24th of 29 swimmers in the 50 
freestyle (:35.42) and 15th of 20 swimmers 
in the 100 freestyle (1:20.74).
He joined forces with Sharon Renier of 
Jackson, Mich., Al Hodgeman of Iowa and 
Lynn Sandberg of Missouri on the sev-
enth-place age 60-64 medley relay team, 
which was timed in 2:52.09.
Kaplan’
s :41.93 relay leg in the 50 breast-
stroke was a personal-best time, topping the 

:42.57 he swam earlier at the nationals.
The chiropractor said he was surprised to 
learn in 2018 that he had qualified for the 
nationals through his performance at the 
Michigan Senior Olympics and he wasn’
t 
going to go to Albuquerque but his wife, 
Lisa, “told me I had to go because I earned 
it,
” he said.
“It was the right decision, although it 
took some time to get used to the altitude in 
Albuqueque,
” he said. “I had a great time. I 
met athletes from all over the country and 
the residents were great. When they saw you 
wearing a National Senior Games name tag, 
they always asked how you were doing.
”
Matz won gold medals in the 50 breast-
stroke (:35.78) and 100 breaststroke (1:19.81) 
and a silver medal in the 50 freestyle (:29.31) 
in the men’
s 65-69 age group at the Michigan 
Senior Olympics.
The attorney’
s :35.78 clocking in the 50 
breaststroke was an age-group meet record. 
Only one competitor of any age swam the 
event faster at the meet.
Three years earlier, Kaplan set the meet 
record in the 100 breaststroke (1:21.00) for 
the men’
s 60-64 age group. That record still 
stands.
The breaststroke is a tough, grueling event 
for a swimmer of any age.
Matz said he’
s able to do well in the breast-
stroke because he began swimming it when 
he was a youngster and at Southfield High 
School.
He likes the competition at the Michigan 
Senior Olympics, but “it’
s not all about win-
ning,
” he said. “The athletes are so support-
ive of each other.
” 

Senior Swimmers 
Make Waves at Meets

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Here are the final team and individual standings in the 
B’
nai B’
rith golf league this season. Points were accu-
mulated through holes and matches won:

TEAM
1. Adam Vieder/Ryan Vieder 
......................... 165 points
2. Jeff Vieder/Mitch Cohen 
........................... 164 points
3. Gary Klinger/Dale Taub ............................ 153 points
4. Mike Klinger/Kerry Chaben ...................... 151 points
5. David Swimmer/Art Hurvitz 
...................... 142 points
6. Rich Luger/Richard Spalter ...................... 132 points 
7. Josh Baker/Josh Harvith 
.......................... 131 points 
8. Mitch Lefton/Stu Zorn 
.............................. 126 points 
9. Howard Genser/Lyle Schaefer 
.................. 121 points 
10. Larry Shapiro/Marc Ruskin/Al DiPaolo .... 116 points

INDIVIDUAL
1. Jeff Vieder ............................................... 79.5 points
2. Adam Vieder ............................................ 78.5 points
2. Ryan Vieder ............................................. 78.5 points
4. Mike Klinger ............................................ 76.5 points
5. Kerry Chaben 
........................................... 75 points
6. Gary Klinger 
............................................. 74.5 points
7. Josh Harvith ............................................ 74 points
7. Mitch Cohen ............................................ 74 points
9. David Swimmer ....................................... 72 points 
10. Mitch Lefton .......................................... 70 points
11. Stu Zorn ................................................ 69.5 points
12. Dale Taub .............................................. 68.5 points
12. Lyle Schaefer 
......................................... 68.5 points
14. Josh Baker ............................................ 67 points
15. Marc Ruskin .......................................... 65 points
16. Richard Spalter 
...................................... 64.5 points
17. Rich Luger 
............................................. 62.5 points
18. Art Hurvitz ............................................. 62 points
19. Howard Genser 
...................................... 59 points
20. Larry Shapiro 
......................................... 53.5 points

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