October 15, 2011
by
Jon Yinger
UNIT website: www.acblunit557.org
CLUB website: www.LongBeachBridge.com
OCTOBER 9 Unit Game: Overall results: 1st in A: Cayce Blanchard/John Melis, 2nd Bob and Pat Adams, 3rd John and April Berg, 4th Jo Daigle/Betty McClellan, 5th Bee Kinman/Verna Burns, 6th Betty Jackson/Judith Jones. In the B flight overall Mike Daley/Jon Yinger were 5th. And in the C flight overall Anne Harrington/Hanefi Erten were 3rd and Carmela Chiurazzi/Cory Hand were 4th. Congratulations to all!
70+%
GAMES in the club Sept 16 through October 15: In the
open game Sunday, Oct 2 Jo and John Melis had 70.83%. In the NLM evening game Oct 3 Kiyo
Nagaishi/Pamerla Cole had 72.30%. And in the afternoon game Oct 4 Steve
Mager/Gary King had 70.12%. And in the
NLM game Oct 11 Richard and Robert Bakovic had 69.97% (close enough). Congratulations
to all four pairs!
BIG
MASTER POINT AWARDS: In-club over-all big point awards Sept 16 through Oct 15: Sept 19 Jackie Hess/Shirley Carroll won 4.96mp
for 1st over-all; Sept 24 Cayce
Blanchard/John Melis won 4.17mp; Sept 24
Murat Veysoglu/Lisa Kuo won 3.00mp; Sept
26 Irwin Bender/Ralph Beaszley won 4.33mp;
Sept 27 Mark Teaford/Cecil Cook won 4.67mp; 29 John Bralliar/Cecil Cook won 4.50mp; Sept
30 Baum Harris/Larry Slutsky won 6.00mp in the afternoon game and Earl VanDerVord/Mike
Daley won 3.33mp in the evening game;
Oct 3 Bob Mault/Norma Krueger won 5.67mp; Oct 4 Steve Mager/Gary King won 6.00mp in the
afternoon game and Sankar Reddy/Bruce Horiguchi won 3.00mp in the evening
game; Oct 5 Phil Schuster/Jon Yinger won
4.67mp in the afternoon game and Aaron Jones/Bruce Horiguchi won 3.00mp in the
evening game; Oct 6 John Petrie/Ron
Spain won 4.50mp; Oct 7 Greg Tapia/Lucy
Gellner won 6.51; Oct 8 Sherry
Troeger/Bob Mault won 4.33mp; Oct 9 John
Melis/Cayce Blanchard won 3.26mp for 1st over-all in the unit game; Oct 10 Suzie and John Hand won 4.82mp. Winning big points for 2nd over-all: Sept 19 Mark Tang/Len Beck 3.72mp; Sept 24 Gerri Carlson/Steve Mager
3.13mp; Sept 26 Mark Tang/Len Beck
3.25mp; Sept 27 Larry Slutsky/Phil
Schuster 3.38mp; Sept 28 Toni
Morford/Margo Coffman 3.50mp; Sept 29
Baum Harris/Jackie Hess 3.38mp; Oct 3
Janet Logan/Larry Topper 4.25mp; Oct 4
Steve Rowe/Irwin Bender 4.50mp; Oct 5 Bob Mault/Verna Baccus
3.50mp; Oct 6 Bruce and Chiye Horiguchi
3.38mp; Oct 7 Betty McClellan/Verna Baccus 4.88mp; Oct 8 Randy Hamlin/John Petrie 3.25mp; Oct 10 Charlotte and Steve Sturm 3.60mp. And winning big points for 3rd over-all over
the past month: Sept 29 Ralph
Beazley/Irwin Bender 3.07mp; Sept
30 Toni Morford/John Crabtree tied with
Rich Wasser/Jon Yinger, each winning 3.07mp; Oct 3 Kathy Batson/Bob Ballack
3.19mp; Oct 7 Phyllis Parker/Bob Mault
3.66mp. Whew! Congratulations to all of our big-mp winners!
NEW MEMBER: John Kraffts. Welcome to the club!
STATUS CHANGES: Club Master: Gayle Knapp; Sectional Master: Richard Dickens. Congratulations to you both!
UP-COMING EVENTS
AT THE CLUB: Oct 31 through Nov 6 STaC
week: Hand
Records, overall awards, card fees $11.
Nov 11 through Nov 13: Long Beach
Sectional here at the LBBC. Nov 14 through Nov 19: Educational Foundation Week: Extra
points, regular prices. Nov 20: Unit Game:
Lunch at 12:30, game at 1pm. Nov
24: the club will be closed for
Thanksgiving. Nov 25, Black Friday
unit-rated game: Extra points, regular
prices. Nov 28, 7pm: ACBL-wide charity game: Extra points, regular prices.
NEWS
FROM LEISURE WORLD from Gene Yaffee: Big Games--Bee Kinman & Dorothy Favre with a 70.5% on Sept. 15 and
Joan Tschirki & Verna Burns with a 69% on Sept. 30.
Results of the Unit 557 Game
played on September 18: Overall winners
were Gary Paugh & Lois Abramson with 69.13% followed by Charlotte &
Stephen Sturm, third were Bee Kinman & Verna Burns. First in B Strat were
Fern Dunbar & Janet
Club Championship Game on October
10--Overall winners were Connie & Jay Young with 64.1%; second in Strat
A--Dorothy Favre & Verna Burns; second in Strat B--Betty Scharf & Bill
Robinson.
Annual meeting will be held on
Monday, November 14, at 11:45 a.m. in Clubhouse #3. Three board members are to
be elected. If you can't attend, please give your proxy to a member.
Get well wishes go to Sylvia
Kaprelyan.
Results of all Leisure World games are
posted on www.acblunit557.org For more information,
please call Gene Yaffe at 562/430-7040.
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