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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 
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