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BY STEVE STEIN
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Dale Taub (left) and Gary Klinger added a fourth team championship to their B’nai B’rith golf league resume this season.
Back-to-Back Champs in B’nai B’rith Golf League
It was a familiar story this summer in the weekly B’nai B’rith golf league.
Gary Klinger and Dale Taub won the team championship for the second straight year and fourth time since 2016.
Taub won his second individual championship. He previously won the individual title in 2014, with Klinger finishing in second place.
Last year, Klinger won the individual title for the first time and Taub finished second.
No team or individual had won back-to-back league titles until Klinger and Taub did it as a team in 2020 and 2021. They previously won team championships in 2016 and 2018.
Klinger has played in the league since it began in 2013. He also won the team title with Howard Meyers in 2014. Taub has played in the league since 2013, but he was a substitute the first year.
While the championships are nice, Taub said, winning isn’t the only reason why he enjoys playing in the league.
“The camaraderie is great. This is a good group of guys,” he said. “Playing each week is a nice way to end the day.”
League golfers play a nine-hole round starting late Thursday afternoon at the Links of Novi.
All 24 spots in the league were filled this year.
After the first two weeks of play were rained out, the league played 17 straight weeks without a postponement, finishing Aug. 26.
HERE ARE THIS YEAR’S LEAGUE TEAM STANDINGS:
1. Dale Taub/Gary Klinger 193 points. 2. Aaron Herskovic/Brad Friedman 172.
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The other playoff champions this year in the weekly league were Temple Israel No. 2 in the Greenberg Division and Congregation Shir Tikvah in the Rosen Division.
Temple Israel No. 2 and Shir Tikvah each also won its division’s regular-season title.
Like the Koufax Division, the Greenberg and Rosen divisions also had five teams.
This was the second Greenberg Division playoff championship in three years for Temple Israel No. 2.
This season didn’t start well for Temple Israel No. 2. Through 10 games, the team was 6-4 and in fourth place.
Temple Israel No. 2 never lost again.
It reeled off 10 straight victories to finish the regular season at 16-4 and in first place in the division.
Then it won all three of its playoff games, including a 15-14 eight-inning victory over Temple Israel No. 5 in the championship game on a walk-off sacrifice fly by Jeff Katzen that scored Jeff Kaplan.
“We were clicking. Everyone was hitting. Everyone was playing well,” Temple Israel No. 2 manager Victor Uzansky said about his team’s 13-game winning streak.
The team had three father/son duos on its roster: Victor and Benjamin Uzansky, Ryan and Andrew Schneider and Jeff and Jared Katzen.
Also on the team were Ben Watson, Marc Weiss, Dave Banooni, Brad Goldman and Eric Wolfe.
Despite rainouts and makeups, each team played the scheduled 20 games.
The list to the right shows the league’s final regular-season standings.
GREENBERG DIVISION
1. Temple Israel No. 2 16-4. 2. Temple Israel No. 5 14-5-1. 3. Temple Israel No. 6 14-5-1. 4. Temple Shir Shalom No. 2 14-5-1. 5. Temple Israel No. 4 4-16-0.
KOUFAX DIVISION
1. Temple Beth El 15-5-0. 2. Temple Israel No. 3 12-8-0. 3. Congregation Shaarey Zedek 8-11-1. 4. Temple Israel No. 1 8-12-0. 5. Adat Shalom Synagogue No. 1 7-12-1.
ROSEN DIVISION
1. Congregation Shir Tikvah 13-7-0. 2. Congregation Beth Ahm 10-10-0. 3. Adat Shalom Synagogue No. 2 6-13-1. 4. Temple Shir Shalom No. 3 4-16-0. 5. Bais Chabad Torah Center 2-18-0.
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3. Mike Klinger/Kerry Chaben 170. 4. Larry Shapiro/Bob Shapiro-Chuck Houmaian 168. 5. Rich Luger/Richard Spalter 164. 6. Ryan Vieder/Adam Vieder 161. 7. Mitch Lefton/Stu Zorn 159. 8. David Swimmer/Jody Mendelson 158. 9. Marc Ruskin/Jeff Novick 156. 10. Josh Baker/Josh Harvith 151. 11. Lyle Schaefer/Ryan Stone 137. 12. Jeff Vieder/Mitch Cohen 131.
HERE ARE THIS YEAR’S LEAGUE INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS:
1. Dale Taub 93 points; 2. Aaron Herskovic 88 1/2; 3. Mitch Lefton 88; 4. Gary Klinger 87; 5. Mike Klinger 86; 6. Richard Spalter 85 1/2; 7. Larry Shapiro 84; 8. Kerry Chaben 83; 9. Jody Mendelson 82; 10 (tie). David Swimmer and Ryan Vieder 80; 12. Marc Ruskin 79 1/2; 13. Jeff Novick 78; 14. Bob Shapiro-Chuck Houmaian 77 1/2; 15. Josh Baker 76 1/2; 16 (tie). Adam Vieder and Lyle Schaefer 75; 18. Stu Zorn 74; 19. Josh Harvith 73; 20. Brad Friedman 72 1/2; 21. Rich Luger 72; 22. Jeff Vieder 71 1/2; 23. Ryan Stone 69 1/2; 24. Mitch Cohen 68. After a year in which it was held virtually, the Howard Weingarten Memorial Baseball Outing is returning this month to The Corner Ballpark, former home of Tiger Stadium.
The third annual fundraiser for Detroit PAL’s Diamond Sports Program, named for a passionate and loyal Detroit Tigers fan, will be held from noon to 4 p.m. Sept. 26.
Lunch, a baseball game on the Willie Horton Field of Dreams and the presentation of Howard Weingarten Memorial Awards to PAL Tiny Tigers (ages 4-8) baseball players for leadership, teamwork and responsibility are included in the outing’s festivities.
“People who come to the outing should feel safe. It will be held outdoors in a large venue. Masks will be available,” said Deby Lebow, Weingarten’s longtime significant other, who founded and organizes the outing each year.
The awards were presented for the first time last year (on Zoom) and there was a video made by PAL of the Tiny Tigers program. The COVID-19 pandemic wiped out the outing’s meal and baseball game.
“We needed to do something meaningful for the outing last year, so we came up with the idea for the awards,” Lebow said.
“People told me they loved the video of the awards being presented because the kids were so excited.”
Weingarten, a West Bloomfield resident, died in a car accident in 2018 at age 65.
Donation for the outing is $125 ($36 for youths 16 and under).
To sign up, contact Lebow at (248) 5050199 or dlda@hotmail.com.
Play Ball! The Howard Weingarten Memorial Baseball Outing Returns to The Corner Ballpark
DEBY LEBOW
