The golf teams at De La Salle Collegiate and University of Detroit Jesuit were recently together — not on a course with clubs in hand, but instead with rakes, blowers and cleaning supplies.

Approximately 40 students joined forces March 22 at Mount Olivet Cemetery on Detroit’s east side, where they cleaned the gravesites of the Christian Brothers and Jesuit priests who had been laid to rest decades ago.

Dennis Koch, varsity golf coach at De La Salle, said the service project was an ideal chance for the young men from two normally rival schools to meet in a faith-filled environment on sacred ground.

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