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Deal
of the Week Lancashire Cross-IMP Pairs
Well
done to Rhona Goldenfield playing with Jeff Smith who won at
Preston on 18th January. Jeff Morris and Kath Nelson
were fourth.
Results
are on the LCBA
web site.
League and Higson Cup (15th Jan) The
leaders in each division are displayed on the league
page of this site. In division one Michael Byrne's
St Titus have won two matches by good margins to lead
ahead of Justin Hackett's Mutton Madras and David
Barton's Inverted Minors. Division three is headed by
Splinter Group (George Leigh) and Ashton Aces (Gordon
Bickley) who have each won four matches. In
division four Monton Misfits have started with two
maximum wins. The Enigmas (Graham Fletcher) are
off to a good start in division five with three
wins. Bombay Sapphires have started with two wins
and a draw to lead division six. The Wakefield
family team lead division 7a and Mudlarks are winning
division 7b.
In
the Higson Cup round 2 the tie of the round between
Michael Byrne's St Titus and Justin Hackett's Mutton
Madras was a close run match with St Titus just winning
on the last two boards.
Preston Blue Point Teams
Congratulations
to Neil Thomas, Nicholas Greer, Rodney Lighton and John
Currie who won the teams at Preston on 12th January.
They won on a split tie. In the consolation event Bill
Bentley, Rhona Goldenfield, Kevin and Celia Comrie were also
in a split tie for first place, but they lost the tie
split. Results are on the Preston Club Web Site.
Manchester Congress The
Manchester Congress took place over the weekend of 4-5th
January at the Victoria and Albert Hotel.
We
welcomed Jovanka Smederevac an Austrian World Champion,
several Norwegian players, Scottish and Welsh players as
well as English players from all over the country to make
this an international congress.
The
congress was well attended with 62 pairs in the championship
event, 33 teams on the Sunday and 21 and 27 pairs in the
Intermediate events on Saturday and Sunday
respectively. Congratulations to all the
winners. Dave Debbage and Andrew Woodcock won the
pairs for the third time in four years, Leslie Klein and
Jeff Smith won the Men's Pairs prize, Suzy Lawson and Alan
Jarvis the Mixed Pairs and Rhona Goldenfield and Marianne
Farr the Women's Pairs. The championship teams was
renamed the Bernard Goldenfield Congress Teams this year in
memory of one of Manchester's greatest players who died last
year. A magnificent new trophy was presented in his
memory. The event was won by Sally Brock, Barry Myers,
Jovanka Smederevac and Rodney Lighton. Will and Sam
Wakefield won the prize for the best juniors over the
weekend.
In
the Intermediate events Harold Weinstock and Tomi Komoly won
the Players Progress Cup on the Saturday, Vanessa and
Clement Goldstone the Kevin Comrie cup on the Sunday.
Thanks
to Irene Davies and her team of helpers and to the directors
who ran these events smoothly.
The
Player of the Year spreadsheet has been updated, John
Holland and Adam Wiseberg still lead in the Expert and
Intermediate categories respectively, but their lead has
been cut.
Raymond
Semp's quiz was won by Sally Brock, the champagne prize was
consumed by Sally's team to celebrate their win in the
teams.
Michael
Byrne's quiz and answers can be found here
Winner
was Graham Osborne 57, second Mike Wood 56, third Tom Slater
and friends 40, fourth Adam Wiseberg 31.
Here are links to the results of various events which can also be found on the Manchester Events web site under the results tab.
Open Trials The
final stage of the England trials for the European Open took
place in London from 3rd-6th January. Michael Byrne
played with Kieran Dyke and finished fourth. Ten pairs
took part, with the top two guaranteed selection. See
the EBU web site for results.
Year End Congresses Congratulations
to the Manchester players who did well at Blackpool and
London.
Rhona
Goldenfield won the Mixed Pairs at Blackpool with Jeff
Smith.
John
Holland second in the Mixed Pairs at Blackpool with Jackie
Pye.
Ollie
Burgess fourth with Mark Weeks in the Swiss Pairs at
Blackpool.
Gary
Hyett and Peter Carey-Yard fifth in the Swiss Pairs at
Blackpool.
Michael
Byrne third with Sally Brock in the Mixed Pairs at London.
John
Holland and Rhona Goldenfield won the Swiss Teams at
Blackpool playing with Jackie Pye and Jeff Smith
respectively.
Results
are on the EBU web site.
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