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matches Oct. 21. Feldman and 
Witt played only their semifi-
nal match Oct. 21.
All the nighttime match-
es and most of the daytime 
matches at the state tourna-
ment were played indoors.
The state tournament closed 
the door on Shaevsky’s Frankel 
tennis career. He was on the 
team for four years and went 
to the state tournament three 
times.
After playing No. 4 doubles 
at state as a sophomore and 
junior, winning just one match, 
he switched to singles this year 
and made his run to the semi-
finals.
Shaevsky is the student gov-
ernment president at Frankel 
in addition to being a boys 
tennis team captain along with 
Carson and Dean. He’s a lead-
er, and he helped lead the team 
to new heights.
“I kept preaching to the guys 
that we may not be as talented 
or have as much tennis expe-
rience as our opponents, but 
we’ll win through our effort, 
devotion and determination,
” 
Shaevsky said.
Shaevsky’s older brother 
Benny, now a senior at the 
University of Michigan, played 
tennis for Frankel for three 
years before Harry joined the 
team in his freshman year. 
Between the two brothers, they 

played in five state tourna-
ments for Frankel.
Larry Stark was the 
boys tennis coach at West 
Bloomfield for eight years 
before coming to Frankel.
“Larry is the GOAT,
” his 
wife said when asked for the 
Frankel boys tennis team’s 
secret of success over the past 
decade.
“He tells everyone on the 
team at the start of each season 
that if they believe in them-
selves and are serious about 
the process, they can achieve 
great things,
” she said. “In the 
end, we all believe. Larry can 
relate to kids at all levels of 
tennis experience.
”
A member of the Michigan 
Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 
Larry Stark was an outstanding 
singles and doubles player at 
Michigan State University after 
a stellar prep career at Berkley 
High School.
“I know what it takes to win 
matches. That’s what I teach 
the boys,
” Larry Stark said.
New Frankel athletic direc-
tor Robert Walker has a tie 
to the Frankel boys tennis 
program. He was the coach 
from 2009-11, shortly before 
Stark arrived on the scene in 
2014. 

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Frankel tennis players 
cheer on their teammates 
at the state tournament.

JONAH MILLER

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Alexander 
Justin Bloch, 
son of Stacey 
and Dr. 
Michael Bloch, 
will be called 
to the Torah as a bar 
mitzvah at Temple Israel 
in West Bloomfield on 
Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. He 
will be joined in 
celebration by his sister 
Samantha and brother 
Matthew. Alexander is 
the loving grandchild of 
Barbara and Dr. Arnold 
Goldman, and the late Flo 
and Louis Bloch. 
He is a student at 
Clifford H. Smart Middle 
School in Commerce 
Township. Alexander’s 
most meaningful 
mitzvah project was 
volunteering as a buddy 
for the Miracle League, 
a charitable organization 
that provides children 
with disabilities an 
opportunity to play 
baseball.

Oren Henry 
Korobkin, son 
of Emily and 
Scott Korobkin, 
will lead the 
congregation 
in prayer as a bar mitzvah 
at Temple Israel in West 
Bloomfield on Saturday, 
Nov. 4, 2023. He is the 
loving grandchild of 
Adele and Alan 
Levenson, Suzie Share, 
Leslie and Harold Leach, 
Mike Korobkin and 
Marian Kraus. He is the 
adoring great-grandchild 
of Geraldine Kraus. 
Oren is a student at 
South Hills Middle School 
in Bloomfield Hills. His 
most meaningful mitzvah 
project was making 
blankets for people going 
through their first cancer 
treatment.

