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Barry Brodsky’
s quest for a four-peat will
have to wait a year.
The Birmingham Marian High School
girls soccer coach has guided his team
to three straight Division 2 state champi-
onships.
The Mustangs’
hopes for a fourth
consecutive state title were wiped out in
March when the Michigan High School
Athletic Association canceled spring sports
because of the public health crisis caused
by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It was very disappointing for us at
first to have the season canceled, but as
time has passed, we’
ve realized what’
s
happening around us is bigger than sports,” Brodsky said. “The health of our
families and other loved ones is more important.”
Brodsky was heading into the season with a challenge: He did not have a
goalie with varsity experience.
“There’
s no doubt we had a strong starting lineup,” he said. “The goalie
situation would have made the season interesting.”
held, but relieved in one
respect.
“If we held the Greenberg
in September, you know a
lot of the conversation at the
event would have centered
around the pandemic, and
that wouldn’
t have been good,
”
she said. “It could have made
the day stressful instead of
fun.
”
Baseball Hall of Fame relief
pitcher Goose Gossage (Hank
Greenberg Memorial Lifetime
Achievement Award), ESPN
NFL expert Adam Schefter
(Dick Schaap Memorial
Award for Media Excellence)
and the Grenader family and
Camp Mak-A-Dream (Barry
Bremen Memorial Inspiration
Award) were supposed to
be honored at this year’
s
Greenberg Invitational.
The honorees are expected
to receive those awards next
year. The rescheduled 30th
annual Greenberg Invitational
will be held June 7, 2021, at
Franklin Hills.
Cicurel said those who paid
for sponsorships or reserva-
tions for the 2020 Greenberg
Invitational can donate the
money to the foundation’
s
causes, apply it toward to the
2021 Greenberg Invitational
or receive a refund.
A raffle for two tickets for
the third or fourth round of
the 2021 Masters golf tourna-
ment plus amenities, a $6,500
value, is still on.
The raffle winner would
have been chosen June 8 at
the Greenberg Invitational,
but now the drawing will take
place Sept. 14 on Facebook
Live on the foundation’
s web-
site, michiganjewishsports.org.
Raffle tickets are $100 and
can be purchased online. No
more than 200 tickets will be
sold.
Also still on — for now
— is the annual Michigan
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
induction banquet, present-
ed by the Michigan Jewish
Sports Foundation. It takes
place in the fall at the Jewish
Community Center of
Metropolitan Detroit in West
Bloomfield. No date has been
set.
From 250 to 280 peo-
ple attend the Greenburg
Invitational and Hall of Fame
banquet annually.
BATTER UP?
The Inter-Congregational
softball league, which fea-
COURTESY OF BRODSKY FAMILY
Brodsky
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