50 | MAY 19 • 2022

SPORTS

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN

A milestone season has
begun for the B’nai B’rith golf
league.
This is the 10th season for
the weekly nine-hole league,
and its ninth season at The
Links of Novi after starting
at Fox Hills Golf & Banquet
Center in Plymouth.
The 17-week league once
again has a full roster of 12
two-man teams, 25 golfers in
all (one team has two golfers
who alternate weeks).
Competition, camarade-

rie and reasonable costs
have kept the league going
strong, according to organiz-
er Gary Klinger. So has the
league’s stability.
“We’ve been playing at the
same times on the same day
(late afternoon/early evening
Thursday) each week for 10
years,” Klinger said. “Guys
can count on it. It’s locked
in.”
Klinger said the league
isn’t filled with superstar
golfers.

“Most of the guys are
decent golfers,” he said. “We
use handicaps, which is the
great equalizer.”
Mike Klinger and Kerry
Chaben led the league’s
team standings through the
first two weeks of the current
season (April 28 and May 5).
They had compiled 30
points by going 12-4-2 on
holes and winning both of
their matches.
League golfers also com-
pete as individuals.

Happy 10th Anniversary to the B’nai B’rith Golf League

GARY KLINGER

Mike Klinger and
Kerry Chaben.

Orthodox Jewish boxing pro-
moter Dmitriy Salita has put
together a special pre-
Memorial Day weekend
show for area boxing fans.
Salita Promotions’ next
Detroit Brawl card May 26
in the Lincoln Ballroom
of the Ford Community &
Performing Arts Center in
Dearborn is headed by an
intriguing heavyweight main
event.
It matches WBC No.
11-ranked Otto Wallin (23-1, 14
KO’s) of Sweden against vet-
eran Rydell Booker (26-5-1,
13 KO’s) of Detroit.
Wallin shocked the box-
ing world in 2019 when he

stunned world champion
Tyson Fury with a third-round
punch that Fury later needed
47 stitches to close. Fury won
the fight by a controversial
unanimous decision.
Booker was the No.
1-ranked heavyweight in the
U.S. when he was an ama-
teur. All five of his profession-
al losses have been inflicted
by a former champion or
undefeated top contender.
“(The May 26) show is part
of our bigger initiative to
bring world-class profession-
al boxing to Detroit on a con-
sistent basis,” Salita said.
For ticket information,
go to Dearborntheater.com.

Salita Promotions Packs a Punch

SALITA PROMOTIONS

Dmitriy
Salita

Elle Hartje played a starring
role in the best season
in the history of the Yale
University women’s hockey
team.
The No. 4-ranked
Bulldogs advanced to the
NCAA Frozen Four for the
first time. Yale lost 2-1 to
No. 1-ranked and eventual
national champion Ohio
State in March in the
national semifinals.
Hartje, a sophomore
forward from Bloomfield
Hills, broke the Yale team
record for assists in a
season (35), and her 51
points were the most for
a Yale women’s hockey
player in 38 years and
the second-most in team
history.
An All-ECAC First Team
selection, Hartje led the
conference in points per
game with 1.42, and she
was fifth and 10th nationally
in assists and goals per
game.

Yale didn’t play in the
2020-21 season because
of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hartje spent the season in
Slovakia playing for a club
team that earned a bronze
medal in the Elite Women’s
Hockey League and the
Slovakian national team.
The Detroit Country
Day School grad lived in
Bratislava, Slovakia, where
her maternal grandparents
Jan and Eva Rival were
born, lived as adults and
got married.

YALE UNIVERSITY

Elle
Hartje

Elle Hartje Writes Her Name in the Yale
Women’s Hockey Record Book

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