Quick Hits

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BY STEVE STEIN

They’re Going to the Maccabi Games

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.

She’s Been a Bulldog This Season at Yale

Bloomfield Hills Star Marches into State Tournament with a League Championship

Elle Hartje has had a remarkable sophomore season with the Yale University women’s hockey team. As the regular season came to a close YALE UNIVERSITY 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 play-

Elle Hartje er in the last 37 years, and she ranked 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.

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 MICHELLE ADAMCZYK 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.

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up “probably because I was getting used to bowling a lot.

“I actually liked bowling the individual and team rounds in the same day. It was fun, and we didn’t have to drive to Tecumseh twice (Tecumseh is about a 75-minute trek from Frankel).”

Gordon finished 36th among 80 bowlers in the individual regional competition with 866 for six games. The 173 he rolled in his last game was his highest score of the six.

The top 10 individual finishers qualified for state.

Frankel’s Charlie LaBelle was 40th with 848. Adam State (59th with 719), Ben TaylorAbt (67th with 675) and Meir Shomer (68th with 673) also competed for the Jaguars.

Frankel finished 10th among 15 teams with 2799. The team competition starts with six Baker games (team members alternate shots) and finishes with three regular games.

The top three teams qualified for state.

There were 17 bowlers on the Frankel team this season, the most in Bernstein’s eight years as coach, “and probably the most in program history,” he said.

“These guys are quintessential student-athletes. I haven’t checked, but we have to have the highest or close to the highest team GPA at our school.”

Six seniors were on Frankel bowling team this season: Gordon, LaBelle, State, Andy Tukel, Daniel Stryk and Oz Gamer.

There were five juniors: Taylor-Abt, Aiden Schafer, Evan and Ethan Weitzman and Zion Rozin.

Sophomores Jonah Miller, Avi Shere and Ari Michaels and freshmen Shomer, Brody Fleishman and Areyh Gamer rounded out the roster.

Langan’s All Star Lanes in Walled Lake is Frankel’s home base.

Frankel bowlers and Coach Joe Bernstein huddle during the team’s lone home match of the season, a 29-1 victory Feb. 1 over Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes.

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quick hits

BY STEVE STEIN

Wrestler Jack Chudler States his Case at Ford Field

Jack Chudler lost both of his matches March 4 at the MHSAA Division 2 individual state wrestling tournament.

But the Orchard Lake St. Mary’s sophomore didn’t leave Ford Field in Detroit unhappy. Just making it to state was good enough for him this year.

“I really didn’t expect to be there,” he said. “I thought I wrestled well at state, and the experience will help me in the future.”

Chudler didn’t exactly get an easy draw at state in the 135-pound bracket.

He was pinned by St. Clair Shores Lakeshore’s Aaron Lucio in 2:18 in his opening match.

Lucio went on to win the weight class championship as expected and finish the season with a 54-0 record.

Cole Riedel of St. John’s pinned Chudler in 2:48 in wrestle-back’s, ending Chudler’s time at the tournament and leaving him with a 24-10 season record.

There were plenty of reasons for Chudler to celebrate post-season success before he got to the state tournament.

He was the 135-pound champion at the Warren Fitzgerald district, and he finished fourth at the Adrian regional, earning a state tournament berth.

“Winning districts was a big goal for me this season, and I did it,” Chudler said. “Also, being a district champion gave me a better draw for regionals, which helped me get to state.”

CHUDLER FAMILY

Family members celebrate sophomore wrestler Jack Chudler’s district championship. From left are Jack’s brother Anthony and parents, Loren and Angel.

This Hornet Is Buzzing at the Plate

KALAMAZOO COLLEGE Ben Chosid is off to a hot start with the hot Kalamazoo College baseball team. The senior shortstop from Ann Arbor had two hits in the Hornets’ 8-6 win over Manchester on March 6 in Ben Chosid Indianapolis in the second game of a doubleheader.

Kalamazoo swept that twin bill after another doubleheader sweep of Manchester (0-7) a day earlier.

Chosid went 8-for-17 at the plate in the season-opening four games for a .389 average. He scored four runs and drove in three.

The Ann Arbor Huron High School grad batted .320 and had 26 RBI last season in 40 games for the Hornets. He scored 21 runs and had seven doubles and two triples.

Next for Kalamazoo (4-0) is a spring break trip to Tucson, Arizona. The Hornets will play eight games there beginning March 17.