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She’s Been a Bulldog This Season at Yale Elle Hartje has had a remarkable sophomore season with the Yale University women’s hockey team. As the regular season came to a close in early March, the sophomore forward from Bloomfield Hills led the Bulldogs with 16 goals and she had a team single-season record 34 assists for 50 total points. Her point total at the time was the most for any Yale women’s hockey player in the last 37 years, and she ranked Elle Hartje third in NCAA Division I in assists per game and 10th in points per game. Yale advanced to the ECAC playoff championship game March 5, but lost 2-1 in overtime to Colgate, a team it had shut out twice in two previous meetings this season. Earlier in the week, Hartje was named to the all-ECAC first team. Despite the loss to Colgate, Yale (25-8-1) had a good shot to get an all-large berth in the NCAA tournament. Yale didn’t play in the 2020-21 season, which was canceled by the NCAA because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hartje spent the season in Bratislava, Slovakia, playing for a club team and the Slovakian national team. The Detroit Country Day School grad’s maternal grandparents were born and got married in Bratislava. An aunt lived there until she was 4.
YALE UNIVERSITY
BY STEVE STEIN
The roster is set. Twenty-three teen athletes will represent Detroit at the revived JCC Maccabi Games this summer in San Diego. The Maccabi Games were canceled in 2020 and 2021 by the JCC Association of North America because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Not bad. Our allotment was 40 athletes, so we got more than 50% of that,” said Karen Gordon, Detroit’s delegation head, about the size of the Motor City Maccabi Games contingent. “I’m so excited these kids are going,” Gordon said. There aren’t enough Detroit athletes to form a team in any of the team sports, so Detroit athletes will join with athletes from other delegations on teams. Here’s a list of Detroit athletes who will compete in San Diego (golf, swimming and tennis are individual sports): 14U baseball — Drew and Eli Edelstein, Ari Gottlieb, Alexander Scheinfeld.
14U boys basketball (3 vs. 3) — Ari Ellis. 16U boys basketball (3 vs. 3) — Gideon Lopatin, Shmuel Shottenstein. 16U girls soccer — Eva and Vivienne Alfonso, Sydney Goldman. Dance — Emily Feinstein, Addison Fenster, Madison Kraft. Girls basketball — Layla Hill, Grace Kleinfeldt. Golf — Alex Lustig. Hockey — Aiden BenEzra, Brennan Gesund, Aaron Goldman, Lucas Hutten, Braylon Juszak. Swimming — Megan Zelmanov. Tennis — Sarah Krivichkin. The Maccabi Games will be held July 31 through Aug. 5, hosted by the Lawrence Family JCC. Founded in 1982, the Maccabi Games have grown into the largest Jewish sports competition in North America. This is the 40th year for the Maccabi Games. Detroit was a host city in 2019, the last time the Maccabi Games were held.
Bloomfield Hills Star Marches into State Tournament with a League Championship Noah Adamczyk and the Bloomfield Hills High School boys basketball team did what they needed to do. Adamczyk scored a game-high 15 points and the Black Hawks beat Rochester Hills Stoney Creek 62-35 on March 3 to earn a share of the Oakland Activities Association White Division championship. Bloomfield Hills and Lake Orion each finished 6-2 in league play. Two days before it defeated Stoney Noah Adamczyk Creek (0-8), Bloomfield Hills rallied for a 52-50 win over Lake Orion. Adamczyk scored 17 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter of that game. Also, the star junior point guard caused a Lake Orion turnover that resulted in the winning free throws. Bloomfield Hills opened Division 1 district play with a 60-46 victory March 7 over West Bloomfield. Adamczyk had 28 points in that game.
MICHELLE ADAMCZYK
They’re Going to the Maccabi Games
MARCH 17 • 2022
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