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Klinger has yet to bowl this
season. He’s recovering from
Sept. 28 back surgery and plans
to return to bowling after the
first of the year.
He’s bowling for the MIA
team, an appropriate name
considering his condition.
Country Lanes is the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
league’s longtime home. The
league was supposed to return
there in the 2020-21 season
after bowling for two years at
300 Bowl in Waterford.
The Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson and Downtown Fox-
MLZG leagues each saw its
2019-2020 season end early
because of the pandemic.
The last Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson bowling night of the
season was March 9, 2020.
Five weeks of regular-season
competition and three weeks
of playoffs remained for the 18
teams.
There were 16 teams in the
Downtown Fox-MLZG league
when it shut down for the sea-
son in March 2020.
It was the 59th season for the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
league. The Downtown Fox
league had been around for
more than 100 years.

The 2020-21 seasons never
began for the leagues. After
waiting a few months following
what would have been the start
of the league seasons, the sea-
sons were canceled because of
the pandemic.
While capacity and other
restrictions placed on bowl-
ing alleys by the Michigan
Department of Health and
Human Services made it
impossible for the leagues to
operate normally, there was a
more important reason for the
cancellations.
Several bowlers in each
league had been infected by the
virus.
“Too much risk,
” Klinger
said when asked why the
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
executive board canceled the
season in December 2020.
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
competition for the 2020-21
season was scheduled to begin
Jan. 4, 2021.
No opening date was set for
the Downtown Fox-MLZG
league, which planned to bowl
Tuesday nights at its regular
home, Hartfield Lanes in
Berkley.

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Berkley High School Grads Experience
Soccer, Hockey Success

Here are a couple of college notes:
Ben Rosenblatt (Huntington
Woods, Berkley High School) is
a member of the Elon University
men’s soccer
team that is
playing in its first
Colonial Athletic
Association
tournament since
2017. Rosenblatt,
a sophomore
defender, has
one goal this
season, vs.
Radford on Oct. 26. He’s played
in most of Elon’s games. Elon is a
Division I program based in Elon,
N.C. There are about 7,000 stu-

dents at the private school.
Josh Nodler (Oak Park, Berkley
High School) was the leading
scorer on the Michigan State hock-
ey team prior to last weekend’s
games against
Ferris State. He
had three goals
and five assists
for eight points.
He also led the
Spartans (4-5-1,
1-2-0) in assists,
was second
in goals, tops
in power-play
points (2-2--4), and his 86 faceoff
wins was seventh in the Big Ten
Conference.

BEN ROSENBLATT

Ben
Rosenblatt

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Josh Nodler

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