24 | JUNE 27 • 2024
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quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN
SPORTS
Par for the Course:
B’nai B’rith Golf
League Returns to
The Links of Novi
They’ve teed off in the 12th season
of the weekly B’nai B’rith Golf
League. The league has returned
to The Links of Novi for the 11th
year after starting at Fox Hills Golf
& Banquet Center in Plymouth.
The leaders after the sixth
week of the 17-week league
season were Marc Ruskin and Jeff
Novick in Division 1 of the team
competition and Mitch Lefton
and Stu Zorn
in Division 2
of the team
competition.
There are six
two-golfer
teams in each
division. Zorn
was atop the
individual
leader board after six weeks of
play. The individual competition is
not split into divisions.
A total of 25 golfers are in
the league. Two golfers are
sharing one spot in the team and
individual standings.
Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Summer
Softball Teams are Fit to be Tied
The Inter-Congregational Men’s
Club Summer Softball League had a
close race in one division and a not-
so-close race in one division as the
regular season neared the midway
point.
Temple Israel No. 6, Temple Shir
Shalom No. 2 and Temple Beth El
No. 1 were each 7-1 in the five-team
Greenberg Division. Meanwhile,
Congregation Beth Ahm was way
in front in the Koufax Division with a
7-1 record. Congregation Shir Tikvah
was in second place behind Beth Ahm at 4-4. The other five teams in the
seven-team division were below .500.
League games are played Sunday mornings at Drake and Keith sports
parks in West Bloomfield. This is the league’s 28th season.
Lincoln Tailor is on Top of the Detroit
Jewish Basketball League
The fifth season of the Detroit Jewish Basketball League is in the books.
More than 80 players competed on 12 teams in the league’s first spring
season.
Lincoln Tailor captured the Division I championship and Ethnospot won
the Division II championship. The league was divided into divisions based
on the skill levels of the players.
Itai Nussbaum, Yosef and Jason Cohen, Dustin Koelzer, Alex Phillips
and Zec Possick were on the Lincoln Tailor team.
Ben Mutz was the league’s leading scorer at 26 points per game.
Steven Hertzberg led the way in rebounding with 13 per game and Alex
Phillips was tops in the league with six assists per game.
League games were played on Wednesdays from mid-March through
May 29 with a one-week break for Passover at Beech Woods Recreation
Center and Tyndall Center in Southfield.
This was league founder and commissioner Daniel Shamayev’s final
season in charge. He graduated in May from Yeshiva University in New
York City with a degree in accounting, and he’ll be studying during the
summer to pass the certified public accountant exam so he can be a
licensed CPA. Once he becomes a CPA, he plans to live and work in the
NYC area.
The league will return in the fall, with a new commissioner in charge.
Are You a JCC Maccabi Games
Volunteer or Host Family? Be Sure
to Attend an Orientation
Just three more volunteer and host family orientations for this summer’s
JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit remain on the calendar. Attendance at an
orientation is mandatory for volunteers and host families. The times and
dates of the final orientations are 2 p.m. June 30, and 8:30 p.m. July 9 at
Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph Road
in Bloomfield Township, and 2 p.m. July
14 at The J, 6800 W. Maple Road in West
Bloomfield.
The Maccabi Games will be held from
July 28-Aug. 2. About 1,200 Jewish teens
from across the world are expected to
participate. To register as a volunteer,
host, spectator or athlete, go to www.
maccabidetroit.com.
Meet the Lincoln Tailor basketball team: Dustin Koelzer, Alex
Phillips, Itai Nussbaum, Zev Possick, and Yosef and Jason Cohen.
DETROIT JEWISH BASKETBALL LEAGUE
GARY KLINGER
Stu
Zorn
INTER-CONGREGATIONAL MEN’S CLUB
SUMMER SOFTBALL LEAGUE.
One-sentence wonders:
• Western Michigan
University distance
runner Brooke Soper
from Okemos, a digital
media and journalism
major, was named to
the women’s track and
field Academic All-Mid-
American Conference
Team.
• Birmingham native Max Sasson
had 18 goals and 24 assists for 42
points in 56 games this
season for the Abbotsford
Canucks, the top minor
league team of the NHL’s
Vancouver Canucks.
• New York Boulders
outfielder David Vinsky, a
Farmington Harrison High
School graduate, was
leading the independent
Frontier League with six
homers and 25 RBIs at the begin-
ning of June.
Brooke Soper
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
An Academic Honor, Strong Showing on
the Ice and a Slugging Boulder