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The Club Pairs Champions for 2016 are Rachael and Maurice Loomes (with assistance from Lyn Smith). Well done to them! The runners up were Lynn Baker and Peter Robinson, closely followed by Jutta Gradwell and Colin Dempster. It was a great turn out this year with 22 pairs vying for the top position.
Good luck to everyone who is participating at the Gold Coast. To see the results please click here http://www.qldbridge.com/gcc/results2016.php
What a fantastic and fun filled day we had at Peninsula Bridge Club yesterday. Thirty two teams represented their clubs in 4 divisions, Open, Intermediate, Restricted and Novice. The final results were Trumps winning the Open and Intermediate division, Manly Warringah Leagues Restricted and Peninsula the Novice division. Peninsula was the overall winner of the trophy. Margaret Smale's daughter Wynne Murray joined us to congratulate all the winners. Click on this link to see the full results. http://www.bridgeaustralia.org/resultslistbyheadevent.asp?umbid=93 Here are some photos of the day and winners.
Wynne Murray with our President Maurice Loomes, Director John McIlrath & Sue Falkingham
There is a lot happening in March so get organised ....
- The daytime GNOT qualifier runs for three Saturdays in March. Find a team and enter on the list at the club. This gold point event will be directed by Ronnie Ng.
- Find yourself a partner for the Sloman cup which runs for 10 months on the first Thursday of each month.
- The State Open Pairs Qualifier is run over three Thursdays in March.
- The Rosemary's Row comp (under 150mp) runs for 9 months on the second Monday of each month. So organise a regular partner for this event.
- The Under 50 mp comp runs for 9 months on the first Friday of each month. The player with best average % gets the prize. This is an individual event.
- The Under 15 mp comp runs for 9 months on the first Wednesday of each month. The player with best average % gets the prize. This is an individual event.
Good luck to all those selected to play in the Margaret Smale Inter-Club Teams competition on Valentine's day. Peninsula is hosting this event. Hopefully this time we can win and get the trophy!
And good luck to all those heading for the Gold Coast especially those who are going for the first time.
On Thursday 28 we had a very successful Invitation Teams day. We had 18 teams and 8 of these teams brought along a guest pair to the club. It was a fun filled day and very well run by Ronnie our director. The results are up under results in the multi section. The best team to win with a guest pair was the Rothwell team. The overall winners were the Peters team that consisted of Bev, Jo Jarvis, Maureen Cooksley and Beryl Dawson
Wednesday evening bridge is now starting at 7pm rather than 7.30. This session is new player friendly and will usually finish by 10pm. Wednesday evening is perfect for new players just out of supervised, experienced players wanting to experiment with new partners and/or new conventions or anyone who just wants a relaxed game of duplicate. Because it’s a walk in session everyone is guaranteed a game. Look forward to seeing you there at the NEW TIME of 7.00pm.
Also the Wednesday Evening supervised sessions have been cancelled until further notice.
Click here for the latest excellent Peninsula Bridge Club Newsletter.
Week one of the Canberra congress has been very well represented by Peninsula members. We have seen some wonderful results especially from some of the newer and novice members who have come through our bridge education. Heidi Colenbrander and Ray Hurst came 3rd in the 0-20 Super Novice Pairs and Susan Jensen and Sandie Rook 2nd in the 20-50 Rising Stars Pairs. We had two teams in the Super Novice Teams event which was played over two days. There were 14 teams in this event and the Van Weeren team of Hans, Tom Wykoff, Heidi & Ray came 2nd, and the Rooke team of Sandie, Susan Jensen, Jen Ardill and Suzanne Cole took 4th spot. In the pairs datum Hans & Tom came in 3rd with Jen & Suzanne in 5th spot.
The Loomes team of Maurice & Rachael and Vivien Eldridge and Alan Davies did very well to come 5th out of 28 teams in the National Red Plum Life Masters Teams Championship. This was played over 3 days. Vivien & Alan did very well in the pairs datum to come in 8th in a strong field.
Margaret & John Rogers came 5th in the Penline National 500 Swiss Pairs in a large field of 84 pairs. Well done.
The team of Margaret & Michael Draper, Anne Small and Ron Smith won the Veteran's Division in the Seniors Category.
