42 | MARCH 16 • 2023
SPORTS
BY STEVE STEIN
quick hits
Rosenblatt Named a
Captain at Elon
Call him captain.
Ben Rosenblatt of Huntington Woods has
been named one of the three captains of the
Elon (N.C.) University soccer team for the fall
2023 season.
“I’m excited,” Rosenblatt said. “After seeing
what the previous captains did, my role will
be to set a good example on and off the field
and during games, make sure we’re playing
together as a unit.”
Rosenblatt is a 5-foot-10, 156-pound senior
defender/midfielder. He’s played 29 games for
Elon, a Division I program, over three seasons.
He was named to the all-tournament team at
the Colonial Athletic Association tournament
the last two years.
His header produced the only goal in Elon’s
1-0 win over Drexel in the CAA tournament
semifinals last season. Elon (11-5-3) won its first CAA
regular-season title last year and played in the NCAA
tournament.
Elon’s captains were selected by the players and
coaching staff.
“Ben has built great respect within our team for
his daily drive and commitment that has seen him
develop into one of our most influential players,” said
Elon coach Marc Reeves.
Rosenblatt will have another year of eligibility
after next season because of the loss of the COVID
season. He said he’ll definitely play but where will
depend upon his academic pursuits. He’s a sports
management major.
The Berkley High School grad plans to go to law
school after his soccer playing days are over.
He’s the son of Marc and Debbie Rosenblatt.
Future is Bright for Frankel
Academy’s Boys and Girls
Bowling Teams
The season is in the books for the Frankel
Jewish Academy bowling teams.
The boys and girls teams bowled in
individual and team competitions Feb. 23 at
the Division 4 regional at Ten Pin Bowling
Alley in Tecumseh to avoid a conflict with
Shabbat, bowling the equivalent of nine or 10
games in about four hours.
It was winter break at Frankel, so each
team was shorthanded.
It was the first tournament of the season
for the revived Frankel girls team, the
first one in Joe Bernstein’s nine years as
Frankel’s bowling coach.
“The girls improved dramatically during the
season,” Bernstein said. “Only one of our girls
will graduate, so I’m looking forward to next year.
Several boys will be back next year, too.”
The Frankel boys finished 14th of 15 teams at
the regional. Sophomore Meir Shomer led the way
individually, finishing 36th of 74 bowlers with 149-
139-133-122-153-155--851.
The girls were ninth of nine teams. Junior Sarah
Fish led the way individually with 131-150-150-141-87-
135--794, good for 24th of 49 bowlers.
Here are the rosters of the teams:
Boys: Senior Jacob Rond, juniors Avi Shere and
Jonah Miller, and sophomores Ezra Lupovitch, Brody
Fleishman and Meir Shomer.
Girls: Senior Katelyn Winkleman, junior Sarah
Fish, sophomore Zoe Schiffer and freshmen Molly
Resnick and Lilly Resnick.
Boys junior varsity: Juniors Eric Diskin, Eliyah
Fradkin and Ashten Spector, and freshmen Sloan
Gartenberg and Ryan Reinstein.
Ben Rosenblatt, center, celebrates scoring the winning
goal for Elon in its 1-0 win over Drexel.
ELON UNIVERSITY
JOE BERNSTEIN
Meet the Frankel boys and girls bowling teams.
Hockey Star Elle
Hartje Earns
National Honor
It’s been a great season for Yale
University women’s hockey star
Elle Hartje.
The junior from Bloomfield Hills
had 13 goals
and 38 assists
in 32 games
going into the
NCAA Division
I tournament,
giving her 127
points during her
three-year Yale
career (40 goals,
87 assists).
She re-broke her school single-
season record for assists (she had
35 assists last year, breaking a
37-year-old record).
There’ s more. She was named
co-national player of the month
for February by the Hockey
Commissioners Association and
the ECAC Hockey Forward of the
Month.
Hartje had 19 points during
February with four goals and
15 assists in eight games. She
had at least one point in each
game, multiple points in seven of
the eight games, averaged 2.4
points per game, was a plus-19,
and had a 61.6% success rate on
faceoffs. Yale went 7-1 during the
month. It was Hartje’s first national
recognition.
Earlier, Hartje was named First
Team All-ECAC.
Yale (28-3-1) is ranked No. 2
nationally. The Bulldogs earned
the No. 4 seed in the NCAA
tournament and faced No. 5 seed
Northeastern on March 11 at home
at Ingalls Rink in New Haven,
Conn in the quarterfinals.
A victory would send Yale to
the Frozen Four on March 17 and
19 in Duluth, Minn. It’ s the second
straight year — and second time
ever — that Yale has qualified for
the tournament.
Yale won its first-ever ECAC
regular-season championship but
lost 4-3 to Clarkson in double-
overtime in the ECAC tournament
semifinals and failed to earn the
conference’ s automatic bid to
the NCAA tournament. Instead, it
earned an at-large berth.
Elle Hartje
YALE UNIVERSITY