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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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