B
owlers are back on the
lanes this season in the
Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson B’nai B’rith league
after the COVID-19 pandemic
forced them to take some time
off.
Two of the league’s bowlers
are on a roll.
Aaron Radner bowled his
sixth 300 game in league
play, the most in the league’s
60-year history.
Joey Schechter, at age 22 the
league’s youngest bowler (the
minimum age is 18), had the
league’s highest series of the
season as of mid-February.
Radner’s latest 300 and
Schechter’s 278-213-279--
770 series were each bowled
Jan. 31 at Country Lanes in
Farmington Hills, on the first
night of the second half of the
weekly league’s regular season.
Radner slipped past Dave
Shanbaum on his way to the
top of the league’s 300 leader
board.
Shanbaum has five 300
games in league play.
He’s not competing in the
league this season. He lives
in Windsor and crossing the
Canadian border into the U.S.
is problematic because of pan-
demic restrictions.
This is Radner’s fourth year
in the league. He was a substi-
tute occasionally when he was
in college.
He’s bowled three 300
games at Country Lanes, the
league’s longtime home, and
three 300 games at the 300
Bowl in Waterford, the league’s
home for two years.
His 300’s have been bowled
in March 2015, March 2018,
March 2019 (twice), October
2019 and now January 2022.
He has one other 300
game in his bowling career.
It came in August 2019 at
the Rose Bowl in Roseville in
the Detroit All Star Traveling
Classic.
“Why have I bowled six
300 games in the B’nai B’rith
league? I really don’t know.
Maybe I’m relaxed,” Radner
said.
Radner’s series Jan. 31 was
257-300-193--750.
“I just couldn’t make the
proper adjustments in the
third game,” he said.
His second-game 300 con-
tinued a trend.
“Not one of my seven 300
games has been bowled in the
first game of a series. They’ve
all been in the second or third
game,” Radner said. “I don’t
know why I’ve never bowled a
300 in a first game. It’s weird.
You’d think that would be a
good time for a 300.”
Another 300 game, young
bowler’s 770 series are highlights
of Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
season.
Perfection
Pushes Away
the Pandemic
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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SPORTS
Joey Schechter (second from
left) with Jerry & His Kidz
teammates (from left) Bill Zavier,
Yale Weiner and Jerry Gurwin.
GARY KLINGER
GARY KLINGER
Mix-N-Match teammates (from left)
Kenny Weiss, Brian Cohen and
Noah Cohen are big fans of prolific
300 bowler Aaron Radner.