66 | NOVEMBER 23 • 2023 

quick hits

Bowler Aaron Radner Is 
Anything but Average

Aaron Radner has the highest average in 
the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai B’rith 
bowling league.
After a week off the 
perch, Radner rolled 
back to the top Oct. 30 
with a 258-263-258 — 
779 series, giving him a 
231 average through 21 
games. Joey Schechter 
(who led the average 
race for a week) was in 
second place behind 
Radner with a 224 
average through 21 
games.
Also on Oct. 30 in the weekly league, 
Harold Grossbart threw strikes in the first 
10 frames of his first game on his way to a 
287, and Mort Friedman bowled 235-222-
188 — 645, his highest series since a 703 in 
February 2020. Friedman’s 645 series was 
99 pins over his average.

BY STEVE STEIN 

Aaron Radner

GARY KLINGER

Elle Hartje is No. 1 
on Yale Women’s 
Hockey Career 
Assist Leader Board

No Yale University 
women’s hockey 
player has compiled 
more career assists 
than senior captain 
Elle Hartje from 
Bloomfield Hills.
Hartje recorded her 
team record-breaking 
90th career assist Oct. 
28 in the first period 
of the Bulldogs’ 8-0 
victory over visiting 
Dartmouth, just 51 seconds after scoring 
a goal. She ended up with a career-high 
four assists in the game.
Hartje is a top candidate for the Patty 
Kazmaier Award, which is presented to 
the top women’s collegiate hockey player 
in the country. The Hockey News called 
Hartje “one of the best two-way players” 
in the nation.

YALE UNIVERSITY

Elle Hartje

JCC Maccabi Games Meetings Scheduled

Meetings have been scheduled for coaches 
and athletes who want to represent Detroit 
in the 2024 JCC Maccabi Games that will be 
held in the Motor City.
The coaches meeting will be at 7 p.m. Nov. 
30 at The J, 6600 W. Maple Road in West 
Bloomfield. Head coaches must be at least 
age 21. Assistant coaches must be at least 
age 18.
Athlete meetings will be at 1 p.m. Dec. 3 at 
The J and 7 p.m. Jan. 10 at Temple Emanu-
El, 14450 W. 10 Mile Road in Oak Park. Jewish athletes ages 12-16 as of July 31, 2024, are 
eligible to participate in the 2024 Maccabi Games.
Basketball, baseball, dance, golf, ice hockey, soccer, swimming, table tennis, tennis and 
volleyball are the sports offered. There also is a Star Reporter activity for those who want to 
report on the Maccabi Games, scheduled for July 28 through Aug. 2, 2024.
For further information, send an email to MaccabiDetroit@gmail.com.

MACCABI DETROIT

Michigan Jewish 
Sports Hall of Fame 
Inductee Frank 
Goldberg Dies 

Frank Goldberg, who 
was inducted into 
the Michigan Jewish 
Sports Hall of Fame 
in 2005, died last 
month. He was 80. 
A 1961 graduate 
of Detroit Mumford 
High School, where 
he excelled in 
baseball and football, 
Goldberg went to star 
in football at Central Michigan University 
as a middle linebacker and tight end. 
He was drafted by the NFL’s Cleveland 
Browns in 1965.
Goldberg lived in the Detroit area for 
most of his life. After he retired from a 
career as a teacher, coach, small business 
owner and financial planner, he spent 
summers in the Saginaw Bay area and 
winters in Naples, Florida. 
Memorial contributions in his name can 
be made to the Toni and Trish Hospice 
Home in Auburn, Michigan; Bay Area 
Community Foundation in Bay City; Delta 
College Public Broadcasting in University 
Center, Michigan; or the Food Bank of 
Eastern Michigan in Flint. 

LEGACY.COM

Frank Goldberg

U-M Golfer Masters 
Birmingham Country 
Club Course

University of Michigan 
golfer Mikaela Schulz 
of West Bloomfield 
came “home” for a 
tournament and nearly 
won it.
Playing as an 
individual for U-M, 
which did not compete 
as a team at the 
tournament, Schulz tied 
for second place in a 
54-golfer field at the Chippewa Invitational 
held at Birmingham Country Club.
Schulz shot 79-71—148 in the 36-hole 
tournament. She had four birdies in a final 
round 1-under 71, her 10th career sub-par 
score at U-M. Schulz finished five strokes 
behind the tournament champion.
A graduate student at U-M, Schulz 
is pursuing a master’s degree in 
social work after earning a bachelor’s 
degree in biopsychology, cognition and 
neuroscience.

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Mikaela Schulz

