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