SPORTS
Perfection Pushes Away the Pandemic
Another 300 game, young bowler’s 770 series are highlights of Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson season. STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
GARY KLINGER
GARY KLINGER
B Mix-N-Match teammates (from left) Kenny Weiss, Brian Cohen and Noah Cohen are big fans of prolific 300 bowler Aaron Radner.
Joey Schechter (second from left) with Jerry & His Kidz teammates (from left) Bill Zavier, Yale Weiner and Jerry Gurwin.
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FEBRUARY 24 • 2022
owlers are back on the lanes this season in the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai B’rith league after the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to take some time off. Two of the league’s bowlers are on a roll. Aaron Radner bowled his sixth 300 game in league play, the most in the league’s 60-year history. Joey Schechter, at age 22 the league’s youngest bowler (the minimum age is 18), had the league’s highest series of the season as of mid-February. Radner’s latest 300 and Schechter’s 278-213-279-770 series were each bowled Jan. 31 at Country Lanes in Farmington Hills, on the first night of the second half of the weekly league’s regular season. Radner slipped past Dave Shanbaum on his way to the top of the league’s 300 leader board. Shanbaum has five 300 games in league play. He’s not competing in the league this season. He lives in Windsor and crossing the Canadian border into the U.S. is problematic because of pandemic restrictions. This is Radner’s fourth year in the league. He was a substi-
tute occasionally when he was in college. He’s bowled three 300 games at Country Lanes, the league’s longtime home, and three 300 games at the 300 Bowl in Waterford, the league’s home for two years. His 300’s have been bowled in March 2015, March 2018, March 2019 (twice), October 2019 and now January 2022. He has one other 300 game in his bowling career. It came in August 2019 at the Rose Bowl in Roseville in the Detroit All Star Traveling Classic. “Why have I bowled six 300 games in the B’nai B’rith league? I really don’t know. Maybe I’m relaxed,” Radner said. Radner’s series Jan. 31 was 257-300-193--750. “I just couldn’t make the proper adjustments in the third game,” he said. His second-game 300 continued a trend. “Not one of my seven 300 games has been bowled in the first game of a series. They’ve all been in the second or third game,” Radner said. “I don’t know why I’ve never bowled a 300 in a first game. It’s weird. You’d think that would be a good time for a 300.”
