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The Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson
B’nai B’rith bowling league ends its
season with a ... golf outing.
It’s the Mark Klinger Memorial out-
ing, named for the person who found-
ed it, and it’s held the same day as
the league’s post-season banquet.
For the last two years, the outing
has been held at Mystic Creek Golf
Course in Milford and the banquet has
been held at Gino’s Pizzeria in Keego
Harbor.
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson bowl-
ers and friends can participate in the
outing. This year’s champion in the
27-golfer field at 8-under-par was the
team of Steve Batch, Tim Twentyman,
Josh Alpert and Mike Rott.
Second place, two strokes behind
the champions, was the team of Mike
Weinstock, Rob Bothan, Jerry Wayne
and Spencer Burke.
There was a tie for third place at
4-under between the team of Stu
Zorn, Larry Slutsky, Larry Woodberg
and Tom Schwartz and the team of
Bryan Levine, Harold Grossbart, Lyle
Schaefer and Rick Sherline.
Woodberg and Bothan won closest-
to-the-pin contests and Schaefer and
Bothan won long drive contests.
quick hits
JODI MILLS
Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson bowlers (from
left) Stu Zorn, Larry Slutsky, Larry Woodberg
and Tom Schwartz teed it up at the league’s
post-season golf outing.
GARY KLINGER
The second season of
the weekly Detroit Jewish
Basketball League tipped
off May 31 at Beech Woods
Recreation Center in
Southfield.
Eight teams are in the
league this year, the same
as last year, with new rules
in place that give players
more opportunities to play.
“There’s an awesome
environment,” said league
founder and organizer
Daniel Shamayev. “I love to
see empty benches during
games. That means every-
one is out on the floor.”
The men’s league also
is more “teched up” this
season with one game each
night live-streamed on the
league’s Instagram account.
Each team will have at least
two games live-streamed
during the season.
There are 60 full-time
and 25 part-time players.
The part-timers fill in where
needed. League play will
continue through Aug. 16.
The second session of
the weekly Detroit Jewish
Basketball Youth League for
players in grades 5-8 still
has openings. The session
will be from July 23 through
Aug. 20 at Farber Hebrew
Day School in Southfield.
There are 25 players in
the first session at Farber,
which began June 11.
To register for the youth
league, call Shamayev at
(248) 797-3763 or danielr-
shamayev@gmail.com.
Teams in both leagues
have jerseys that list the
name of their sponsor.
Avery Gach is entering
some lofty territory. He is
now arguably the most
heavily recruited Jewish
high school football play-
er in the state in
recent memory.
He’s definite-
ly the top high
school football
player in Oakland
County in the
Class of 2025 and
one of the best
in the state in his
class. He recently
earned a five-star recruit-
ing ranking — the highest
ranking on the scale —
from recruiting guru Tom
Lemming.
Gach, a 6-foot-5, 290-
pound junior offensive
tackle at Birmingham
Groves, has 29 Division
I scholarship offers, and
the number continues to
climb. Among the schools
recently joining the schol-
arship list were Alabama,
Georgia, Nebraska and
Southern Cal.
Gach has stayed
focused on football during
the recruiting process.
“You can’t get distract-
ed,” he said. “Plus, talk is
cheap. You have
to perform on the
field.”
Gach certain-
ly performed
last season. He
racked up 114
“pancake” blocks
and didn’t allow
any pass pressures
or sacks. A “pan-
cake” block is a run block
by an offensive lineman
that results in the defen-
sive player being flat on
his back.
The 2023 high school
football season is on the
horizon, and Gach is excit-
ed about that. He played
baseball for Groves this
spring.
“That was fun,” he said.
“I got a chance to hang
out with the baseball play-
ers who don’t play foot-
ball.”
Brotherhood-Eddie
Jacobson Bowlers Head
to the Links
‘Awesome Environment’ at
Basketball League
Avery Gach: 5-Star Recruit,
29 Scholarship Offers
Avery Gach
MURRAY GOLDENBERG/CLASSIC
PHOTOGRAPHY