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standings with 185 points, nine 
points ahead of runners-up 
Klinger and Taub. 
But Lefton and Zorn finished 
in second place in the first half 
of the season, seven points in 
back of the Vieders, and in 
third place in the second half, 
11 points behind Klinger and 
Taub and six points behind Lyle 
Schaefer and Ryan Stone.
So they didn’t play in the 
team championship match.
The league’s individual 
competition remained a full-
season format. 
Zorn won his first individual 
league title with 95 points, 
three points in front of Klinger. 
Schaefer was third with 87.5 
points, and Lefton and David 
Swimmer tied for fourth place 
with 83.5 points.
Among the interesting league 
season statistics compiled by 
Klinger, the league’s founder 
and organizer, were:
• Zorn was the league’s most 
improved golfer. He dropped 
his average gross score 3.25 
strokes, from 50.69 in 2022 to 
47.44 this year. Right behind 
him was Mitch Cohen at 3.00 
strokes, from 50.29 to 47.29.
• Max Novick shot the only 

eagle of the season. Other 
leaders were Josh Baker and 
Jeff Vieder with six birdies, and 
Ryan Vieder with 41 pars and 
58 bogeys.
• Low rounds of the season 
were shot by Ryan Vieder 
on the Links of Novi’s South 
course (39) and East course 
(39) and Baker on the West 
course (39).
• Klinger and Taub won six 
straight matches in a stretch of 
nine wins in 11 matches to end 
the regular season.
• Defending team champions 
Kerry Chaben and Mike 
Klinger started strong, with 
three straight victories, but won 
just four of 13 matches the rest 
of the way.
• Bob Shapiro, Larry Shapiro 
and Cohen each shot his best 
score of the season on opening 
day.
• Of the 25 regular players, 
only seven didn’t have a birdie 
all season. 
• Baker, Schaefer and Zorn 
each played all 16 rounds.
• There were three rainouts 
this season. 

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Mike Stone: ‘Regular Schlub 
with a Microphone’

Longtime Detroit sportstalk personality Mike Stone 
announced recently that he will continue as cohost of 
the morning show on 97.1 The Ticket through the end 
of the NFL season, then cut back his time on the air.
Stone, who will be 65 in December, joined The 
Ticket in 2009 after 15 years with WDFN, Detroit’s first 
sports talk station. He said he’ll remain with The Ticket 
for at least two years as a fill-in host after the Super 
Bowl.
“I still consider myself a regular schlub with a 
microphone,” Stone said in a story posted on the The Ticket website that 
details his career in Detroit.
Stone has been the host of the popular sports panel discussion at the 
Hank Greenberg Golf, Tennis and Pickleball Invitational for the past few 
years.

Mike Stone

97.1 THE TICKET

The Michigan Jewish Sports 
Foundation has announced the 
honorees who will be celebrated at 
the 2023 Michigan Jewish Sports 
Hall of Fame induction banquet. 
The banquet will be held Oct. 
16 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek 
in Southfield.
First, let’s meet the Hall of 
Famers in the Class of 2023. 
They are Randy Blau, a four-year 
tennis player and captain of the 
Kalamazoo College men’s tennis 
team; Jim Relle, the 1984 U.S. 
Olympic rowing team captain; 
Robert Silverman, an All-American 
diver at the University of Michigan; 
and Leon Grundstein, a Big Ten 
track champion at U-M.
The Pillars of Excellence recip-

ients are Franci Silver, general 
chairperson of the 2019 and 2024 
JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit and 
a former Detroit coach and delega-
tion head; Scott Burnstein, a sports 
reporter for the Oakland Press for 
20 years; Barry “Rat” Lepofsky, an 
umpire for 43 years; and Ron Levin, 
boys basketball coach at South 
Lyon East High School.
The Jewish News High School 
Athletes of the Year are 2023 grad-
uates Noah Adamczyk, an All-State 
boys basketball player at Bloomfield 

Hills and Central Michigan 
University recruit; Clay Hartje, an All-
State baseball and hockey player 
at Detroit Country Day who will be 
playing baseball at Johns Hopkins 
University; and Ella Blank, who 
earned nine varsity letters in girls 
golf, girls basketball and softball at 
Birmingham Groves.
The Dr. Steven and Evelyn Rosen 
Stars of Tomorrow Scholarship win-
ners are 2023 high school graduates 
Merrick Michaelson (Frankel Jewish 
Academy); Marnie Jacobs (North 

Farmington); Jenner Leib (Orchard 
Lake St. Mary’s); Kaytlyn McPherson 
(Berkley); and Clay Hartje.
Former Michigan State University 
basketball star, 1979 Detroit Pistons 
draftee and current basketball 
broadcaster Greg Kelser will 
receive the Shirley and Alvin Foon 
Humanitarian Award.
For information on tickets, spon-
sorships, auction donations and the 
ad journal, contact foundation exec-
utive director Don Rudick at (248) 
390-5981 or zeedon1@gmail.com, 
or visit michiganjewishsports.org. 
There is special ticket pricing for 
youths and young adults.
Proceeds from the dinner benefit 
the Rosen scholarship program and 
the Hall of Fame.

Hall Doors Open for Four Inductees

Captain Ben Steers 
the Soccer Ship 
at Elon University
Ben Rosenblatt is one of three 
captains of the Division I Elon (N.C.) 
University men’s soccer team. 
He was elected a captain by his 
teammates. The senior defender/
midfielder from Huntington Woods 
hopes to lead the Phoenix to 
even greater heights this fall than it 
achieved last season.
Rosenblatt helped Elon win the 
Colonial Athletic Association regular-season outright championship for the 
first time in 2022 and secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. 
Elon hosted a first-round NCAA tournament game against Marshall at 
its home field as it made its first appearance in the national competition 
since 2015. The Phoenix lost 1-0 to Marshall, but the defeat didn’t diminish 
the success of its 11-5-3 season.
Rosenblatt was named to the All-CAA Tournament Team last season 
after scoring the lone goal in Elon’s 1-0 win over Drexel in the CAA 
tournament semifinals.
A Berkley High School graduate, Rosenblatt was selected a Jewish 
News High School Athlete of the Year in 2020.

Ben Rosenblatt (center) celebrates 
after scoring a goal for Elon 
University.

ELON UNIVERSITY

