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the first and once in the sec-
ond. West Bloomfield scored 
twice in the first. The game 
stayed tied 2-2 until Weiss’ 
timely hit ended the non-
league battle.
Weiss would have been on 
the West Bloomfield junior 
varsity baseball team to start 
last season.
Instead of being angry 
about losing the season to the 
pandemic, the right-handed 
thrower and batter went to 
work.
“I trained hard and this 
past winter, I got in some 
great practices with my new 
travel baseball team, the 

Detroit Metro Stars,” said 
Weiss, who is on the Metro 
Stars’ 16U Red team.
Weiss, 16, has been playing 
travel baseball since he was 
12.
West Bloomfield lost 3-2 to 
non-league opponent Utica 
Ford on March 29 in its next 
game after beating Lincoln 
Park. Then the Lakers took 
a week off from competition 
for spring break.
“Two one-run games in 
our first two games. We 
won one and lost one,” 
Birnberg said. “That’s base-
ball. You can’t get too high 
or too low.” 

Josh Weiss (5-8) and his good friend Matt Fountain (6-7) each stood 
tall for the West Bloomfield baseball team in the Lakers’ season-
opening win over Lincoln Park.

ANDREW WEISS

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No Missing Links for the 
B’nai B’rith Golf League

It’s getting close to tee-off time for the B’nai B’rith golf 
league. There’s a full house once again, with 24 golfers, 12 
teams of two, ready to do battle each week at the Links of 
Novi, the league’s home course for several years.
“We had to turn people away,” 
said league spokesman Gary 
Klinger. “We can’t have any more 
teams because we play in the 
late afternoon ... It would be too 
dark to finish early and late in the 
season.”
Tee times for the nine-hole 
rounds range from 5:32 to 6:06 
p.m.
Opening day is April 29. 
Competition will continue each 
Thursday for 17 weeks. 

Jeff Vieder tees 
off at the Links 
of Novi during 
the 2019 
B’nai B’rith 
golf league 
season.

GARY KLINGER

