34 | APRIL 16 • 2020 

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