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sports HIGHlights
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T
he Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’
nai B’
rith
bowling league and B’
nai B’
rith basketball
league each ended earlier than planned last
month because of COVID-19 social-distancing mea-
sures.
Here are the leagues’
final stats:
BOWLING
Team standings
Note: First-half team champions were NeinandTenn (Red Wings
Division), Mix-N-Match (Lions Division), Dream Team (Tigers Division)
and House Ballz (Pistons Division). The second half of the season was
not completed.
Top team games (with handicap)
600 Club (Red Wings Division): 2857
House Ballz (Pistons Division): 2815
Pin Pals (Tigers Division): 2781
Mix-N-Match (Lions Division): 2780
Top individual scores and series
Red Wings Division: Matt Rappaport, Dave Shanbaum 300; Shanbaum
824; Lions Division: Aaron Radner, Phil Horowitz 300; Radner 804;
Tigers Division: Lyle Schaefer 288; Schaefer 782; Pistons Division:
Yale Weiner 290; Mike Rosen 777
Top individual averages
(minimum 200)
1. Aaron Radner 229.30 (highest in league history) 2. Dave Shanbaum
227.06 3. Keith Kingston 217.39 4. Lyle Schaefer 216.65 5. Mike Rosen
216.40 6. Mike Kolb 215.32 7. Phil Horowitz 214.47 8. Gary Klinger
210.31 9. Matt Rappaport 210.00 10. Benny Shapiro 208.93 11. Rick
Woolman 208.89 12. Eric Weiss 207.17 13. Sam Mauch 205.13 14. Rob
Greenfield 204.77 15. Bob Breitman 203.71 16. Noah Cohen 203.52 17.
Steve Lotzoff 202.57 18. Corey Slutsky 201.47
BASKETBALL
Team standings
1. Pisgah/Zeiger (Coach Rick Sherline) 8-0 2. Pisgah (Coach David
Banooni) 5-3 3. Brotherhood I (Coach Rich Luger) 2-6 4. Brotherhood II
(Coach Justin Peters) 1-7
Stats
1. NeinandTenn, 60.1 winning
percentage
2. Mix-N-Match, 60.0
3. 600 Club, 59.1
4. Yogi’
s Rollers, 57.6
5. Dream Team, 56.9
6. Mertz Bakery, 55.8
7. Ten Pin Commandments, 55.2
8. NHL Property Management, 53.7
9. House Ballz, 48.9
10. Pin Pals, 47.4
11. Manute Bolers, 47.0
12. Gramps R Us, 46.4
13. Gorillas, 45.5
14. Wynning, 44.4
15. Pin Bowl Wizards, 42.2
16. Who Needs Malach, 41.7
17. Back-up Ballz, 40.7
18. Upstarts, 37.4
“Playing sports is part of
our culture at FJA,” Cooper
said.
She should know.
Cooper did a class project
in the fall that argued that
FJA should require students
to participate in extra-
curricular activities.
As part of her research,
she discovered that of the
146 students enrolled at FJA
in the 2018-19 school year,
102 students participated
in at least one sport and
there were 12 multi-sport
athletes.
In addition, she learned
that 18 girls were planning
to play tennis, 16 girls were
planning to play soccer and
16 boys were planning to
play baseball this spring.
Cooper, Grey and
Blackman are all going
to college, but their
competitive athletic careers
are over.
Cooper, 17, a West
Bloomfield resident, is
headed to the University
of Michigan. Grey, 17, who
lives in Bloomfield Hills,
is going to Michigan State
University. Blackman, 17, of
Novi, also is going to MSU.
FJA Athletic Director
Rick Dorn said the MHSAA
was wise to delay its final
decision on spring sports,
and the organization
ultimately made the correct
decision to cancel them.
“I anticipated that spring
sports were going to be
called off,” Dorn said. “The
day the NCAA canceled
spring sports (March 12), I
knew that day was going to
come for us.”
The MHSAA halted
winter sports temporarily
March 12 and stopped
all athletic activities
temporarily March 16.
The rest of the winter
sports season and the
spring sports season were
canceled April 3 by the
MHSAA, one day after
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’
s
directive to close school
buildings for the rest of the
academic year.
Josh Birnberg, first-
year coach of the West
Bloomfield High School
baseball team, finished
tryouts March 12 and never
got to hold his first practice
as coach.
“I was hoping we’
d play
this season, but it was
false hope,” he said. “I’
m
disappointed, but not for
myself. I’
ll coach next
season. I’
m disappointed for
my eight seniors.”
Birnberg is also
a hitting
and fielding instructor at
High Performance Training
in Keego Harbor. That job
also is on hold because of
COVID-19.
“What’s happened made me
realize you have to cherish your
good memories.”
— MITCH BLACKMAN