 NOVEMBER 21 • 2019 | 37

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Here’
s how Frankel Jewish Academy boys tennis players fared in the 
Division 4 state championships Oct. 18-19 at Hope College in Holland.

No. 1 singles
Eric Adelson (FJA) def. Les Agnew (Chesaning) 6-0, 6-0. No. 6 seed Ben 
Clay (Grand Rapids Catholic Central) def. Adelson 6-1, 6-4.

No. 2 singles
Alex Bean (FJA) def. Connor Smith (Flint Powers) 6-1, 6-0. No. 4 seed Jack 
Ford (Kalamazoo Hackett) def. Bean 6-3, 6-0.

No. 3 singles
Eli Grey (FJA) def. Luke Lebourdais (Saginaw Nouvel) 6-0, 6-0. Grey def. No. 
5 seed Kaden Dykstra (Hudsonville Unity Christian) 6-0, 6-2. Grey def. Ryan 
McClelland (Grand Rapids Catholic Central) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (8). No. 1 seed Cody 
Richards (Traverse City St. Francis) def. Grey 6-2, 6-0 (semifinals).

No. 4 singles
Rafi Weinstein (FJA) def. Rob Hentschel (Whitehall) 6-2, 6-3. No. 5 seed 
Austin Widner (Hudsonville Unity Christian) def. Weinstein 7-5, 6-1.

No. 1 doubles
Kyle Johnson/Jeff Shembarger (Barrien Springs) def. Russell Presser/
Mitchell Blackman (FJA) 6-0, 6-1.

No. 2 doubles
Tyler Zucks/Brady Karcher (Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard) def. Ben Goldstein/
Ethan Grey (FJA) 6-1, 7-5.

No. 3 doubles
Erik Belen/Adam Johnson (Berrien Springs) def. Andrew Schulman/Max 
Charlip (FJA) 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-4.

 
No. 4 doubles
Elan Krakoff/Adin Charlip (FJA) def. Grant Rabideau/Andrew Braun 
(Frankenmuth) 6-3. 6-0. No. 1 seed David Roark/Chase Williams (Allegan) 
def. Krakoff/Charlip 6-0, 6-1.

Team standings
1 (tie). Allegan and Kalmazoo Hackett 21 points; 3. Grosse Pointe 
University Liggett 20; 4 (tie). Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard and Traverse City 
St. Francis 18; 6. Grand Rapids NorthPointe Christian 17; 7. Grand Rapids 
Catholic Central 16; 8. Ludington 13; 9 (tie). Jackson Lumen Christian 
and Williamston 11; 11 (tie). Almont and Hudsonville Unity Christian 9; 
13 (tie). Frankel Jewish Academy and Flint Powers 7; 15 (tie). Grosse Ile 
and Whitehall 5; 17. Barrien Springs 4; 18. Grand Rapids West Catholic 3; 
19 (tie). Chesaning, Grant and Saginaw Nouvel 2; 22 (tie). Frankenmuth, 
Hillsdale and Paw Paw 1; 25 (tie). Essexville Garber, Lake Odessa Lakewood 
and Niles Brandywine 0.

Inter-Congregational Men’
s Club Fall Softball 
League final regular-season standings
1. Kosher Ribs 7-2-1 
2. SHAEF 7-2-1 
3. Jeters 5-4-1 
4. Marble Rye 3-5-2 
5. Bad News Jews 3-7-0 
6. The Sandlot 2-7-1 

Playoffs Oct. 13 results 
Game 1: Jeters 12, The Sandlot 0.
Game 2: Bad News Jews 22, Marble Rye 17.
Game 3: SHAEF 9, Jeters 7 (semifinals).
Game 4: Kosher Ribs 7, Bad News Jews 6 (semifinals).
Championship: Kosher Ribs 17, SHAEF 12.

Stats

T

he cheers have barely 
died down, and the 
tears of happiness 
have barely dried.
Just a few months after 
Detroit hosted the 2019 JCC 
Maccabi Games & ArtsFest, 
with about 1,150 athletes 
and 125 artists participating, 
it’
s time to start thinking 
about the 2020 Maccabi 
Games.
San Diego, Calif., will be a 
host from Aug. 2-7. ArtsFest 
will be held there.
For only the second time 
since the Maccabi Games 
began in 1982, the event 
will be held at a college 
venue. Pace University in 
Westchester County, N.Y., 
will be a host from Aug. 
9-14.
Two informational 
meetings for prospective 
Detroit athletes ages 13-16 
and artists ages 13-17 have 
been scheduled.
The meetings will be at 4 
p.m. Sunday, Dec. 15, and 7 
p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, both 
in Handleman Hall at the 
JCC of Metropolitan Detroit 

in West Bloomfield.
Attendance at only one 
meeting is needed.
About 1,700 athletes and 
artists are expected to be 
in San Diego. From 700 to 
800 athletes will be at Pace. 
Detroit will be represented 
at both sites.
Maccabi Detroit 
delegation head Karen 
Gordon was a Detroit coach 
in 1986, when the Maccabi 
Games were held at York 
University in Toronto.
She said she’
s excited 
about the Maccabi Games 
returning to a college 
campus.
“Kids will be staying in 
dorms instead of with host 
families. Is that better? No. 
It’
s just different,” Gordon 
said. “Kids will still get to 
meet other kids from around 
the country and the world, 
and I think they’
ll enjoy 
being in college dorms.”
For more information on 
the 2020 Maccabi Games, go 
to maccabidetroit.com. 

Maccabi Games 
Meetings are Scheduled

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Participants in the JCC Maccabi Games & ArtsFest in Detroit this summer filled a 
blank wall at the closing party with thoughts on what Maccabi means to them.

KAREN GORDON

