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Students from Ida Crown Academy in Chicago, The Ramaz School in New York, and Kushner Academy in New Jersey are playing baseball against the Columbus Torah Academy Lions starting Friday at 10:30 am in the first national day-school tournament ever organized.
Students also will spend time attending synagogue on Saturday morning and will study some Torah, with a baseball theme.
The games begin at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Columbus JCC, continue on Saturday at 10:30 p.m. at the JCC - they conclude with games and an awards ceremony Sunday morning at Bishop Orton Park off of Etna Road. There will be a community-wide oneg at Congregation Ahavas Sholom on Friday night for all of the members of the tournament and for all CTA students. The weekend will feature classes and informal educational programming focused on “Life Lessons from a Ball and a Bat,†Torah values for today’s Jewish high school teenagers learned from America’s favorite game.
Tournament organizers Steve Guinan, Matt Bailey and Eddie Karmia designed this tournament to give the students a chance to compete in a wider arena. “Our winter sports have a post-season event,†said Guinan “But our spring sports never had one. This year we’ve invited some of the best schools in the country to come here and play ball. We hope this can be the building block for a future continuing event.â€Â
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