DECEMBER 16 • 2021 | 43

The Brotherhood-Eddie 
Jacobson B’nai B’rith bowling 
league is rolling toward the 
end of the first half of the 
2021-22 season after being 
shut down in the 2020-
21 season because of the 
COVID-19 pandemic.
Here were the standings in 
the weekly league — which 
requires bowlers to be 
vaccinated against COVID-
19 — following competition 
Dec. 6 at Country Lanes in 
Farmington Hills:

PISTONS DIVISION
1. The Rolling Stoned; 2. The 
Newbies; 3. Team Lebowski; 
4. Wrecking Balls; 5. Mark IT 
Zero; 6. Bowl Me.

TIGERS DIVISION
1. Yogi’s Rollers; 2. MIA; 
3. No Names; 4. House Ballz; 
5. Gramps R Us.

RED WINGS DIVISION
1. Mix-N-Match; 2. The 
Gorillas; 3. Irritable Bowl 
Syndrome; 4. NHL Property 
Management; 5. Manute 
Bolers.

LIONS DIVISION
1. 600 Club; 2. Jerry & His 
Kidz; 3. Fulfilling Holes; 
4. The Holy Rollers; 
5. Frozen No More; 
6. Mertz & The Sprinkles.

After a strange 2020-
21 football season, 
Noah Rioux was 
hoping for some 
normalcy this fall.
What became 
normal for the North 
Farmington High 
School junior was not 
being able to play 
football.
After suffering a torn 
ACL and slight meniscus tear 
in his first varsity lacrosse 
game for North Farmington in 
the spring, Rioux underwent 
surgery April 30 and missed 
the football season.
“I may have been cleared 
for the playoffs, but we didn’t 
make the playoffs,” he said.
So why was the previous 
North Farmington football 
season weird? The COVID-19 
pandemic, of course.
Rioux, a 5-foot-11, 175-
pound fullback/middle 
linebacker, played in each 
of North Farmington’s three 
playoff games as the Raiders 

marched the furthest 
in the state playoffs 
since 1978.
The Raiders’ 
playoffs included 
a forfeit win over 
South Lyon in the 
Division 2 district 
finals, then a 64-day 
wait before they lost 
50-22 at Traverse 
City Central on Jan. 9 
in the regional finals.
The forfeit and layoff were 
because of COVID-19, the 
latter so the Michigan High 
School Athletic Association 
and Michigan Department of 
Health and Human Services 
could put together a pilot 
program of rapid antigen 
coronavirus tests for football 
players, coaches and other 
team personnel.
Rioux was brought up to the 
varsity team midway through 
the regular season. He played 
on the Raiders’ kickoff, kickoff 
return, punt, punt return and 
placekick block special teams.

Promising North Farmington Football 
Player Sits Out Season

NOAH RIOUX

Noah Rioux

B’nai B’rith Bowlers on a Roll

Meet Mix-N-Match, the Red Wings 
Division leader as of Dec. 6 in 
the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson 
B’nai B’rith bowling league. From 
left are Kenny Weiss, Brian Cohen, 
Noah Cohen and Aaron Radner. 
Noah Cohen had the league’s 
high game (279) and Radner had 
the league’s high series (755) as 
of Dec. 6.

GARY KLINGER

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