36 | JANUARY 19 • 2023

quick hits

Eight Were Great
on the Tennis
Court
Eight Jewish boys tennis
players from Bloomfield Hills,
Birmingham Groves and
Birmingham Seaholm high
schools were named to all-state
teams selected by the Michigan
High School Tennis Coaches
Association. Here’s the list:
• Division 1 singles: Jonah
Chernett, Bloomfield Hills
freshman.
• Division 1 doubles: Ryan
Rose, Bloomfield Hills junior.
• Division 1 doubles: Merrick
Chernett, Bloomfield Hills junior.
• Division 2 singles: Nolen
Kovan, Birmingham Groves
senior.
• Division 2 singles: Michael
Liss, Birmingham Groves

sophomore.
• Division 2 doubles: Alex
Lewis, Birmingham Seaholm
senior.
• Division 2 doubles: Jake
Rosenwasser/Dylan Wolf,
Birmingham Groves seniors.

BY STEVE STEIN

Merrick and Jonah Chernett.

JOREY CHERNETT

B’nai B’rith Bowlers
Roll into the Second
Half of the Season

Team Lebowski. FlashDancers.
The Gorillas. 600 Club.
Those teams were the first-half
winners in the four divisions of
the weekly Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson B’nai B’rith Bowling
League and have qualified for the
playoffs in April.
The first half of the league’s
29-week season concluded Jan.
2. The next 13-week half will
be followed by three weeks of
playoffs.
Team Lebowski (Pete Weber
Division), FlashDancers (Mark
Roth Division), The Gorillas (Earl
Anthony Division) and 600 Club
(Walter Ray Williams Division)
each finished on top of a six-team
division in the 24-team league.
Here were the high games and
high series in each division in the
first half of the league season:
• Pete Weber: Jason Cox 267,
Sam Mauch 699.
• Mark Roth: Dave Shanbaum
290, Aaron Radner 802.

• Earl Anthony: Mitch Cohen
285, Mike Rosen 797.
• Walter Ray Williams: Steve
Moss 298, Mitch Lefton 745.
Gary Goldin had the highest
over average game (plus 66) and
Eric Goldberg had the highest
over average series (plus 116)
during the first half. Goldberg’s
big series was bowled Jan. 2. His
683 series was a season high
for him and a 245 game was his
second highest of the season.
Other notable accomplish-
ments from Jan. 2 included Joey
Schechter’s second straight
652 series and Rob Greenfield
picking up the double pinochle
split (4-6-7-10) in an otherwise
uncharacteristic 149 game.
The in-season Mark Klinger
Memorial Over-Average
Tournament for league bowlers
began Jan. 9. Competitors must
exceed their current average in
each two-week round to move
on to the next round in the four-
round tournament.
The league bowls Monday
nights at Country Lanes in
Farmington Hills.

GARY KLINGER

Meet Team Lebowski: Jay Weiss, Phil Ross, Howard Halpern and Gary
Shuman.
Salita Promotions’ Boxer is the Best in
the Business

The awards rolled in late last
year for Flint boxer Claressa
Shields.
She was named ESPN.
com’s women’s fighter of the
year and the Women’s Boxer
of the Year by The Sporting
News after a year in which
she became a two-time
undisputed middleweight
champion in October thanks
to a unanimous decision win
over arch-rival Savannah
Marshall in England, Marshall’s
home country.
The victory over Marshall avenged the only loss Shields has suffered
in her 67-fight amateur and professional career. Marshall beat Shields
in 2012 when they were amateurs.
Shields’ promoter is former professional boxer Dmitriy Salita, an
Orthodox Jew from Ukraine whose Salita Promotions company is
based in Southfield.
They’ve been connected since 2017, just after Shields won her
second Olympic gold medal for the U.S.
“Claressa is a generational talent whose accomplishments inside
the ring are unprecedented,” Salita said. “Last year was another year
of incredible goals achieved for her, most significantly her win over
Savannah Marshall on British soil at the O2 Arena in London. That
match was the most watched women’s sports event ever on the
Sky television network. The Sky is the limit for the GWOAT (Greatest
Woman of All Time) of women’s boxing.”

SALITA PROMOTIONS

Claressa Shields and Dmitriy Salita.

Merrick and Jonah Chernett

SPORTS