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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

26 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 

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. 

