Jewish athletes in the news:
• The commotion 
surrounding Josh Nodler’s all-
important final year of college 
hockey has calmed down. 
Bowling Green coach Ty Eigner 
was reinstated Oct. 19 after 
being placed on 
administrative 
leave following 
allegations of 
hazing at an off-
campus event 
involving a few 
of his players. 
Nodler, a center, is 
in his first season 
at Bowling Green 
after previous 
stops at Michigan 
State and UMass. 
The Oak Park 
resident was drafted by the 
NHL’s Calgary Flames in 2019.
• It happened in an exhibition 
game, but freshman Noah 
Adamczyk of Bloomfield Hills 
scored his first points for the 
Central Michigan University 
basketball team. The 2023 
Jewish News High School 
Athlete of the Year had five 
points, shooting 2-of-4 from 
the field and 1-of-2 on three-
pointers, in the Chippewas’ 
97-32 win over Alma on Oct. 
29. Adamczyk, a Bloomfield 
Hills High School grad, also 
had a rebound in five minutes 
of action. 
• The Elon (N.C.) University 
men’s soccer team’s 
remarkable late-season run 
came to an end Nov. 5 when 
the No. 6 seed Phoenix lost 
to No. 2 seed Monmouth on 
a penalty-kick shootout after 
the two teams battled to a 
scoreless tie in the semifinals 
of the Colonial Athletic 
Association tournament. 

Huntington Woods resident 
Ben Rosenblatt, a 2020 Jewish 
News High School Athlete of 
the Year, was Elon’s senior 
captain this season. The 
Berkley High grad had a goal 
and an assist playing midfield 
and defense. 
Elon (6-9-3) won 
its last four CAA 
regular-season 
games to qualify 
for the conference 
tournament and 
knocked off No. 
3 seed Stony 
Brook 1-0 in 
the tournament 
quarterfinals 
before losing to 
Monmouth.
• Ryan Turell, 
who is trying to become the 
first Orthodox Jewish player in 
the NBA, is back with the Motor 
City Cruise, the Detroit Pistons’ 
G League affiliate, after being 
cut by the Pistons. This will be 
Turell’s second season with the 
Cruise. He averaged 4.0 points 
and 1.7 rebounds per game last 
season.
• Max Sasson of Birmingham 
is off to a good start with 
the Abbotsford Canucks, the 
Vancouver Canucks’ American 
Hockey League affiliate. 
Through 11 games, he had three 
goals and two assists. The AHL 
is the top minor league for NHL 
teams.
• Detroit Red Wings 
defensemen Jake Walman 
is wearing a neck guard in 
practice and games following 
the death of former NHL player 
Adam Johnson, who was cut by 
a skate blade during a game in 
England’s professional league.

Names in the News: Nodler’s 
Coach Is Back Behind the Bench

BOWLING GREEN UNIVERSITY

Josh Nodler

NOVEMBER 23 • 2023 | 67

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Topkis-Goldman
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ndrew Michael 
Goldman and Marlee 
Jayne Topkis were mar-
ried at the Gotham Hall in New 
York. Rabbi Joshua Bennett of 
Temple Israel officiated.
Andrew is the loving son 
of Laurie Fischgrund and Dr. 
Kenneth Goldman, and Lisa 
Daniels-Goldman. Marlee is the 
loving daughter of Denise and 
Dr. William Topkis.
Following a fabulous honey-
moon in Buenos Aires, Iquazu, Mendoza and Patagonia, 
Andrew and Marlee reside in New York.

MAZEL TOV!

JULY 25, 2023
Samantha and Jonathan Sulzer of West 
Bloomfield are proud to announce the birth 
of their daughter, Noa Rose, sister of Leo, 5, 
and Rayna, 3. She is the granddaughter of 
Rick and Renee Unger, and Brian and Sherri 
Sulzer. Noa is named in loving memory of her paternal 
great-uncle John Werhane and maternal great-aunt 
Claire Serling.

Eliana Raine 
Mayerson, 
daughter of 
Melissa and 
Randy Mayer-
son, will be 
called to the Torah as a bat 
mitzvah at Temple Israel 
in West Bloomfield on 
Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. 
She is the loving grand-
child of Barbara and the 
late Robert Sloan, and the 
late Nancy and the late 
David Mayerson.

Eliana is a student 
at Hillel Day School of 
Metropolitan Detroit in 
Farmington Hills. Her 
most meaningful mitzvah 
project is maintaining a 
portion of the cemetery 
where infants, including 
her brothers, have been 
laid to rest. She cleans and 
beautifies the area known 
as Babyland to create a 
more comforting place for 
loved ones to visit.

