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Radner also had the league’s 
highest average for the sixth 
straight year. He averaged 
230.45 in 69 games. Lyle 
Schaefer was second on the 
average list at 222.13 in 69 
games, and Dave Shanbaum 
was third at 220.88 in 72 
games.
David Gerges was the 
league’s most improved 
bowler. He raised his aver-
age 15.22 pins from 174 to 
189.22. Dennis Horwitz (189-
201.80—12.80), Brian Hacker 
(124-136.18—12.18) and 
Schaefer (212-222.13—10.13) 
also had double-digit average 
increases.
League bowlers rolled 1,650 
games in the 200s during the 
regular season, led by Radner 
with 56. 
 There were 416 series 
in the 600s, led by Hassan 
Fatouhi with 18, and 49 series 
in the 700s, the same as the 
previous season. Radner led 
the way this season with nine.
 
FIRST HALF VS. 
SECOND HALF 
Klinger said comparisons of 
the first and second halves 
of the season are some of his 
favorite statistics. Here’s what 
he discovered this season:
Cohen averaged 142 in the 
first half and 170 in the sec-
ond half, a league-best 28-pin 
improvement, and finished 
with a 156 average. Schaefer 
averaged 212 in the first half 
and a spectacular 229 in the 
second half, a 17-pin improve-
ment, and finished with a 222 
average.
Steve Achtman and Rob 
Greenfield were models of 
consistency in the two halves. 
Achtman averaged 156.1 in 
the first half and 156.3 in the 
second half and finished with 
a 156 average. Greenfield aver-
aged 208.7 in the first half and 

208.9 in the second half and 
finished with a 208 average.
Teammates Shanbaum 
and Horwitz each had a 
league-best 24 match points. 
Shanbaum was 48-24 in 72 
games and Horwitz was 46.5-
22.5 in 69 games. It was the 
first time teammates shared 
the top spot in match points. 
There are three annual 
in-house tournaments held 
during the league season.
Schaefer won the Mark 
Klinger Over-Average 
Tournament. David 
Hershkovic won the end-of-
season over-average tourna-
ment and Kevin Elbinger won 
the end-of-season bracket 
tournament, held simultane-
ously over three weeks along 
with the playoffs.
Elbinger edged Jerry 
Eisenberg 224-194 in the 
bracket tournament champi-
onship match. Elbinger beat 
Andy Rosenfeld 250-202 and 
Eisenberg beat Herskovic 209-
179 in the bracket semifinals.
League playoff champion 
Uncle Miltie also won the 
International B’nai B’rith 
Bowling Association’s vir-
tual national tournament, 
held simultaneously with the 
league season. Eric Foreman, 
Rosenfeld, Cohen and 
Elbinger were on the Uncle 
Miltie team.
The Aristocrats finished 
fourth in the national tourna-
ment. Brian and Noah Cohen, 
Kenny Weiss and Radner were 
on that team.
One important statistic 
reported by Klinger didn’t 
involve pins. League bowlers, 
in an effort spearheaded by 
Ron Malach, donated more 
than $1,700 to the Israel 
Emergency Fund and Global 
Israel Alliance. 

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