MARCH 17 • 2022 | 39

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN 

The roster is set.
Twenty-three teen ath-
letes will represent Detroit 
at the revived JCC Maccabi 
Games this summer in San 
Diego.
The Maccabi Games 
were canceled in 2020 
and 2021 by the JCC 
Association of North 
America because of the 
COVID-19 pandemic.
“Not bad. Our allotment 
was 40 athletes, so we 
got more than 50% of 
that,” said Karen Gordon, 
Detroit’s delegation head, 
about the size of the Motor 
City Maccabi Games con-
tingent.
“I’m so excited these kids 
are going,” Gordon said.
There aren’t enough 
Detroit athletes to form a 
team in any of the team 
sports, so Detroit athletes 
will join with athletes from 
other delegations on teams.
Here’s a list of Detroit 
athletes who will compete 
in San Diego (golf, swim-
ming and tennis are individ-
ual sports):
14U baseball — Drew 
and Eli Edelstein, Ari 
Gottlieb, Alexander 
Scheinfeld.

14U boys basketball (3 
vs. 3) — Ari Ellis.
16U boys basketball (3 
vs. 3) — Gideon Lopatin, 
Shmuel Shottenstein.
16U girls soccer — Eva 
and Vivienne Alfonso, 
Sydney Goldman.
Dance — Emily Feinstein, 
Addison Fenster, Madison 
Kraft.
Girls basketball — Layla 
Hill, Grace Kleinfeldt.
Golf — Alex Lustig.
Hockey — Aiden Ben-
Ezra, Brennan Gesund, 
Aaron Goldman, Lucas 
Hutten, Braylon Juszak.
Swimming — Megan 
Zelmanov.
Tennis — Sarah 
Krivichkin.
The Maccabi Games will 
be held July 31 through 
Aug. 5, hosted by the 
Lawrence Family JCC.
Founded in 1982, the 
Maccabi Games have 
grown into the largest 
Jewish sports competition 
in North America.
This is the 40th year for 
the Maccabi Games. Detroit 
was a host city in 2019, 
the last time the Maccabi 
Games were held. 

They’re Going to the Maccabi Games

Elle Hartje has had a remarkable sophomore season with 
the Yale University women’s hockey team.
As the regular season came to a close 
in early March, the sophomore forward 
from Bloomfield Hills led the Bulldogs 
with 16 goals and she had a team sin-
gle-season record 34 assists for 50 total 
points.
Her point total at the time was the 
most for any Yale women’s hockey play-
er in the last 37 years, and she ranked 
third in NCAA Division I in assists per 
game and 10th in points per game.
Yale advanced to the ECAC playoff championship game 
March 5, but lost 2-1 in overtime to Colgate, a team it had 
shut out twice in two previous meetings this season.
Earlier in the week, Hartje was named to the all-ECAC 
first team.
Despite the loss to Colgate, Yale (25-8-1) had a good 
shot to get an all-large berth in the NCAA tournament.
Yale didn’t play in the 2020-21 season, which was can-
celed by the NCAA because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hartje spent the season in Bratislava, Slovakia, playing 
for a club team and the Slovakian national team.
The Detroit Country Day School grad’s maternal grand-
parents were born and got married in Bratislava. An aunt 
lived there until she was 4. 

Elle Hartje

YALE UNIVERSITY

Noah Adamczyk and the Bloomfield Hills High School 
boys basketball team did what they needed to do.
Adamczyk scored a game-high 15 points and the 
Black Hawks beat Rochester Hills 
Stoney Creek 62-35 on March 3 to 
earn a share of the Oakland Activities 
Association White Division champion-
ship.
Bloomfield Hills and Lake Orion each 
finished 6-2 in league play.
Two days before it defeated Stoney 
Creek (0-8), Bloomfield Hills rallied for 
a 52-50 win over Lake Orion.
Adamczyk scored 17 of his 28 points in the fourth 
quarter of that game. Also, the star junior point guard 
caused a Lake Orion turnover that resulted in the win-
ning free throws.
Bloomfield Hills opened Division 1 district play with a 
60-46 victory March 7 over West Bloomfield. Adamczyk 
had 28 points in that game. 

Noah Adamczyk

MICHELLE ADAMCZYK

She’s Been a Bulldog 
This Season at Yale

Bloomfield Hills Star Marches 
into State Tournament with 
a League Championship

