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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