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

