AUGUST 17 • 2023 | 51 and sixth in the 200 breast- stroke. He won one ribbon in 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, placing fourth in the 200 breaststroke, and one rib- bon in 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama, placing eighth in the 200 breaststroke. He won his lone National Senior Games medal in Minneapolis in 2015, a silver in the 100 breaststroke. He also won a ribbon there for a sixth-place finish in the 50 breaststroke. Normally held every two years, the National Senior Games got off schedule when the 2021 Games were can- celed because of the COVID- 19 pandemic. Berk said everything went off without a hitch in Pittsburgh. That wasn’t the case last year in Ft. Lauderdale, where transportation and pool issues (no swimming was allowed for one day because of toxic levels of chlorine in the water) impacted the National Senior Games, as did daily thunderstorms. Berk attends Temple Israel and Adat Shalom Synagogue. Send sports news to stevestein502004@yahoo.com. PHOTOS COURTESY JIM BERK The swimming portion of the 2023 National Senior Games was held at the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph C. Trees Pool. It looks like there will be a showdown for the B’nai B’rith Golf League team championship Aug. 24 at the Links of Novi. Brothers Adam and Ryan Vieder, who topped the team standings in the first half of the season, are most likely not going to repeat in the second half. So they will need to face the second-half winners in a title match. In the team standings through July 28, Mitch Lefton and Stu Zorn led the way with 63 points, one more than second-place Gary Klinger and Dale Taub, two more than third-place Jody Mendelson and David Swimmer and three more than fourth- place Lyle Schaefer and Ryan Stone. The Vieders had 35 points and were in last place among the 12 two- man teams. Zorn was well in front in the race for the league’s individual championship, which is a season-long competition, on July 28. He had 79.5 points, eight more than Klinger, who was in second place. This is the weekly league’s 11th year, and the first time the team competition was split into two halves. Mitch Lefton and Stu Zorn. GARY KLINGER They’ll Tee It Up for the Title Four teams were undefeated after the first day of the two-day Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League dou- ble-elimination playoffs. Temple Beth El No. 1 and Temple Shir Shalom No. 2 were both 2-0 in the Greenberg Division playoffs and Congregation Shaarey Zedek was 2-0 and Congregation Shir Tikvah was 1-0 in the Koufax Division playoffs follow- ing games played Aug. 6. Temple Israel No. 6 was the regular-season champion in the six-team Greenberg Division. It was 0-1 in the playoffs after the first day. Shir Tikvah was the regular-season champion of the seven-team Koufax Division. The league plays on Sundays at Drake and Keith sports parks in West Bloomfield. Ryan Turell, an Orthodox Jew who spent last season, his first as a professional basketball player, with the Motor City Cruise of the G League, was one of five league players who were profiled in an Amazon Prime Video documentary. Destination NBA: A G League Odyssey aired Aug. 8. The documentary also includes interviews with former G League players who made it to the NBA. Fifty-five percent of players on NBA rosters in the 2022-23 sea- son played in the G League, the NBA’s minor league. If Turell earns a spot on an NBA roster, he would be the first Orthodox Jew to do so. The 6-foot-7, 190-pound forward wears a kippah on the basketball court and has said he’ll con- tinue to do so in the NBA. Turell, 24, was select- ed by the Cruise in the first round of the 2022 G League draft. He was the 27th overall pick of the draft. He averaged 27.1 points per game in his senior year at Yeshiva University in New York City, tops among men’s collegiate basketball players. Avery Gach’s stock in the world of college football recruiting continues to rise. The Birmingham Groves High School junior was recently ranked the No. 2 high school football player in the state, according to 247Sports’ composite rankings. He’s the No. 12-ranked offensive lineman and No. 124 overall prospect in 247Sports’ nation-wide rankings for his class. Earlier, Gach earned a five-star ranking from recruiting guru Tom Lemming. Five stars is at the top of Lemming’s recruiting scale. A 6-foot-5, 290-pound offensive lineman, Gach has received offers from more than 30 colleges, including Michigan and Michigan State. He’s the most heavily recruited Jewish high school football player in the state in recent memory. INTER-CONGREGATIONAL MEN’S CLUB SUMMER SOFTBALL LEAGUE Four Teams Perfect in Softball Playoffs Ryan Turell Profiled in Documentary Ryan Turell MOTOR CITY CRUISE Avery Gach: No. 2 Prep Football Player in the State Avery Gach MURRAY GOLDENBERG/CLASSIC PHOTOGRAPHY