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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

