Bridge News
Graves Squad Captures Senior Swiss
The team captained by Allan Graves came from behind to win the 74 team final of the Alan Truscott/U.S. Playing Card Senior Swiss Teams. Their total of 134.41 victory points was just 2.07 more than the runner-up team captained by Geoffrey Brod.
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The winners are Allan Graves, Reanette Frobouck, John Carruthers, Mark Lair and FredHamilton.
See Issue 6 of the Las Vegas Daily Bulletin for more details.
Dutch Duo Wins LM Pairs
Jan Jansma and Ricco Van Prooijen of the Netherlands posted the top-score in the von Zedtwitz Life Master Pairs, winning the three-day contest by almost a full board. Each has frequently represented their home country in international play, but they have rarely played together as a partnership.
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In second was the U.S. pair of Eric Greco and Geoff Hampson.
In the Bruce Life Master-5000 Pairs, the winners are Californians Steve Johnson and Mark Teaford.
The Young Life Master-1500 Pairs was won by the California partnership of Ken Llacera and Mick Friedberg.
See Issue 4 of the Las Vegas Daily Bulletin for more details.
District 9 Defends Grand National Crown
The District 9 team captained by Mike Becker led from start to finish in scoring a second straight win in the Grand National Teams, Championship Flight, knocking off the District 25 squad led by Frank Merblum 125 74.
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The winners, all from Florida, are Becker, Warren Spector, Jeff Meckstroth, Eric Rodwell, David Berkowitz and Larry Cohen.
The runners up are the New England sextet of Merblum, John Stiefel, Lloyd Arvedon, Victor King, Doug Doub and Sheila Gabay.
Other GNT winners:
Flight A: The New York-based District 24 team of James Scott, Harry Apfel, John Ramos, Kelley Hwang, Valentin Carciu, and Sorin Pleacof.
Flight B: The District 23 (Los Angeles area) squad of Joseph Viola, Gerard Geremia, Matt Klimesh and David Kempe.
Flight C: The District 8 team from St. Louis of Thomas O’Reilly Pol, Debbie Romero, Jonathan Goldberg and Sandy Bigg.
See Issue 4 of the Las Vegas Daily Bulletin for more details.
Youth NABC Big Hit!
This unprecedented event was attended by 198 children and young adults. Players representing 21 U.S. states and three Canadian provinces were in Atlanta to play bridge and make new friends.
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The Atlanta volunteers did a magnificent job of keeping up with the youngsters and keeping the tournament running smoothly. Everywhere you looked the young players were chatting with each other, playing games and (of course) talking about bridge hands.
Congratulations to all who participated and especially to the winners of the Baron Barclay National Youth Open Pairs:Eli Jolley of Auburn AL and Jake Olson of Blaine MN.
Winners of the National Youth Swiss teams sponsored by District 7:
- Jesse Stern, Lutz FL
- Jourdain Patchett, Sarasota FL
- Zachary Brescoll, Versailles KY
- Owen Lien, Hickory NC
- Adam Kaplan, New Port Richey FL
- Bradley Sevcik, Boardman OH
The winner of the Sportsmanship Trophy was Tom Walsh of Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada.
To read the results of the Atlanta Youth NABC go to the Youth NABC web site at www.youthnabc.org.
We hope to see you all in Washington DC in 2009 for the next Youth NABC!
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