August 15, 2011
by
Jon Yinger
UNIT website: www.acblunit557.org
CLUB website: www.LongBeachBridge.com
AUGUST 14 Unit Game: Overall results: 1st in A: Verna Baccus/Marilyn Christy, 2nd Baum Harris/Steve Skinner, 3rd Kaye Amdon/Eileen Niesen, 4th Fern Dunbar/Linda Stein, 5th John Petrie/Janet Logan, 6th Cayce Blanchard/John Killian. In the B flight overall Keith and Susan Hafen were 3rd, Richard and Robert Bakovic 4th, Anne Harrington/Hanefi Erten 5th, and Sean Lui/Aaron Jones 6th. Congratulations to all!
70+%
GAMES in the club July 16 through August 15: In open games:
July 20 Cory Hand/Tom Skidmore
had 70.50%, Aug
3 Betty McClellan/Toni Morford had 71.39%,
Aug 5 Stanley Snyder/Ron Lien had 76.85%. And in the 99er game Aug 11 Don and Leayn
Johnson had 73.33%. Congratulations to
you all!
BIG
MASTER POINT AWARDS: 1st over-all big point awards July 16
through August 15: July 22 Charlotte and
Steve Sturm 4.33mp, July 25 Ralph
Beazley/Irwin Bender 3.36mp, July 26
Brandon Sheumaker/Ted Gibbs 3.79mp, July
27 Bob Mault/Verna Baccus 3.25mp, July
29 Gary King/Brandon Sheumaker
4.33mp, Aug 7 Bee Kinman/Joan Tschirki
3.50mp, Aug 8 Sankar Reddy/Bruce
Horiguchi 5.17mp, Aug 9 Eddie
Gruber/Diane Starbuck 6.33mp, Aug 9 eve
Betty Williams/Gale Grub 3.00mp, Aug 10 Brandon
Sheumaker/Gary King 5.17mp, Aug 10 eve
Tariq Latif/Iftikhar Baqai 3.00mp, Aug
11 John Melis/Cayce Blanchard 4.50, Aug
12 Earl VanDerVord/Mike Daley 6.33mp,
Aug 13 Earl VanDerVord/Sean Lui 4.17mp,
Aug 14 Verna Baccus/Marilyn Christy 3.68mp. Big awards for second place: July
22 Suzie and John Hand 3.25mp; July 29 Larry Topper/Bob Goldstein
3.25mp; Aug 8 Jackie Hess/Shirley
Carroll 3.88mp; Aug 9 Loren Hilf/Baum
Harris 4.75mp; Aug 10 Phyllis Parker/John
Petrie 3.88mp; Aug 12 tie for second
place: Cecil Cook/Bruce Horiguchi tied
with Sam Wang/Xingpin Kang each earning 4.16mp;
and on Aug 10 Jerry Cassady/Aaron Jones won 3.06mp for 3rd overall. Congratulations to all!
STATUS CHANGES: Club Master: Rosalie Storc; Sectional Master: Sue Boswell;
Regional Masters: George
Alemshah, Bob Ballack, Bonny Walsh; NABC
Master: Cindy Firnett; Life Master:
Pamela Cole; Bronze Life
Master: Michael Shaw. Congratulations
to you all!
UP-COMING EVENTS
AT THE CLUB: August 22-28 Great Western STaC
Silver Points, Hand Records, overall awards.
Monday Sept 5 Labor Day unit-rated game. Wednesday Sept 14 at 7pm
ACBL-wide instant matchpoint game.
Monday Sept 19 unit-rated Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day game. September 18 Unit Game at Leisure World (
CONDOLENCES to the family and friends of Ardis Weiser, Nick
Bailey and George Saffeels who passed away last month.
GET WELL WISHES
to Doris Drew.
NEWS FROM LEISURE
WORLD from Gene Yaffee: Swiss Team Event a Big Success!
There were 14 teams entered in the first
time event on August 1. Winning team
was: Gloria Sedore, Linda Carder, Stan Blitz and Cookie Pham with 4 wins and a score of
56.00. Second was the team of Chie Wickham, Lois Curci, Kay Hyland and Lynne Finley with 4 wins
and a score of 51.00 The
format was an enthusiastic success with another event being planned for November or December!
BIG SCORES--Sharon Beran & Joan Tschirki with a 71% game on August 6.
There were 2 Club Championship games in
July.
Winners on 7/18 in Clubhouse #3 were
1st in Strat A, Larry Slutsky & Bill Linskey with a 66.64% game.
2nd in Strat A, Gloria Sedore & Betty
Jackson.
1st in Strat B, Midge Dunagan & Julie Cunningham
2nd in Strat B, Lottie Kostar & Betty Sichel
Betty Scharf & Bill Robinson swept the field in both Strat A & B on July 29 in Clubhouse #1.
2nd in Strat A, Bee Kinman & Joan Tschirki
2nd in Strat B, Sebbie Thompson & Stan Blitz
UNIT 557 GAME -- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER
18--Lunch & Bridge will be held in Clubhouse #1, beginning at 12 noon for
sign-ins. There will be two
sections--Open and Non-Life Master. Partnership
person will be available. Registrations
are a MUST by September 17! Call Ted Wieber at 596-8661 or Ruth Kaller at 430-0316 for further information and/or to
register to play.
Results of all Leisure World games are
posted on www.acblunit557.org
Gene Yaffee,
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