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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
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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
Stats
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