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

