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SPORTS
N
oah Adamczyk wasn’t
about to let his team
lose its biggest game
of the season.
The Bloomfield Hills High
School boys basketball star
scored 17 of his 28 points —
including 12 in a row for the
Black Hawks in one stretch
— and made a critical play on
defense in the fourth quarter
to lead Bloomfield Hills to
a come-from-behind 52-50
victory over Lake Orion on
March 1.
Bloomfield Hills trailed
Lake Orion by 12 points
with about four minutes to
go in the game and won it
on two free throws in the
final seconds after Adamczyk
created a turnover by poking
the ball away from a Lake
Orion player at half-court.
The win vaulted the Black
Hawks (15-4, 5-2) into a first-
place tie with Lake Orion
in the Oakland Activities
Association White Division
with each team having one
more league game to play.
“That’s why you play the
game, for moments like that
in crunch time,” Adamczyk
said about his fourth-quarter
heroics.
“And that’s why I love
basketball. There’s no other
game like it. It’s so back and
forth. It’s fun. I know saying
basketball is fun is a generic
thing to say, but it’s true.
“Basketball is all about
putting the ball in the hoop,
and there are so many ways
to do that. As for playing
defense, well, it’s either you
want to or you don’t.”
Adamczyk is a 6-foot junior
who is one of the state’s top
point guards.
The three-year starter and
first team All-OAA White
selection as a sophomore
came into the March 1 game
against Lake Orion averaging
21 points, four assists, four
steals and three rebounds a
game.
Those numbers
demonstrate that it’s not all
about him when the Black
Hawks hit the court.
“Noah is a great team
guy. Very unselfish. His
teammates voted him one of
our three captains this season.
The other two captains are
seniors,” said Bloomfield Hills
coach Phil Kurajian.
“Noah is so easy to coach.
It’s a blessing for me to coach
him.”
It isn’t a blessing to
coach against him. Just ask
Birmingham Groves coach
Benny White.
Here’s what White said
about Adamczyk in a
Homelife.com story after
Adamczyk scored 35 points
against Groves on Jan. 27
in a 62-46 Bloomfield Hills
victory:
“The game plan was to
make his catches hard ... We
didn’t do that,” White said.
“We allowed him to catch it
where he wanted to and get
some rhythm ... You’ve got to
pay attention to him. When
you do that, it frees up other
people.”
Kurajian said it was an easy
decision to insert Adamczyk
into Bloomfield Hills’ starting
lineup two years ago when he
was a freshman.
“Noah earned his spot
in our lineup right away,”
Kurajian said. “I could see
then that he was unbelievably
Noah’s Arc
STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Bloomfield Hills High School
basketball star is making life
miserable for Black Hawks’
opponents.
Here’s an image
that strikes fear into
Bloomfield Hills’
opponents. Noah
Adamczyk fires up a
3-point shot Feb. 25
vs. West Bloomfield.
SUSAN ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY