Bridge Club News
The Northern Region defeated the South at the Sydney Regional Final on Sunday. The North was represented by Trumps (A grade and B grade), Gordon (C grade), and Peninsula (D grade), and all won their matches. The Northern representatives for next year are to be determined at the Sydney North InterClub Teams Challenge at Peninsula on Sunday 8 February 2015. The Peninsula D team were Mike Pengelly, Tim Mussared, Peter Clarke and SarahYoung (replacing Jim Rothwell). Mike and Tim were placed first in the Butler ranking for the day.
As usual everyone ate too much, complained about the trivia quiz, demolished Sue's profiteroles in record time, played plenty of bridge, drank lots of champagne and punch and generally had a good time. We had the largest number ever (138) and Avalon meats were very worried that some would go hungry but there was plenty of food. Terry and Lois Rothwell did a great job supervising the beginners and Sue Riley and Vickie and Kerry Busteed worked very hard to organise the day. Thanks to everyone who helped including Colin Mingay (pictured).
The winner of the Stebbins competition was Rachael Loomes. Chris Duggin and Jocelyn Bertram were first in the Sloman and Anne Small and Ron Smith won the Padman Trophy. Congratulations to all!
Quite a few teams from Peninsula participated in the Margaret Smith Memorial Teams day at the Manly Leagues Club. It was a most enjoyable day and a few Peninsula teams won prizes. For full results see the Bridge Game Info web-site.
Peninsula's Melbourne cup day was well attended and enjoyed by all. Thanks to Sue Riley and Rachael Loomes for organising a fantastic lunch and Lyn Hamill for the sweeps and to everyone else who helped on the day. Agnes Cootes won the most elegant hat prize with a stylish concoction from Vinnies. It was good to see so many new players in the supervised section enjoying the day and the bridge. The winners of the supervised section were Arthur, Jenny, Paul and Judy.
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winners of this event were the Baker Team with Michael and Margaret Draper, Lynn Baker and Yvonne Perkins. The runners up were the Duignan team with Sue Riley, Ada Duignan and Rachael and Maurice Loomes. This was played over three weeks in an unusual format to allow for all 8 teams to play each other. Well done to all and thanks to director Colin Mitchell.
A few Peninsula pairs attended the State Open Pairs final at the NSWBA this weekend. Anne Small and Cath Whiddon were the best performing Peninsula pair and qualified for the final on Sunday and ended up coming 8th which is a very good result.
A few teams from Peninsula played in the GNOT metropolitan final this weekend at the NSWBA. The best local team were Lynn Baker, Yvonne Perkins, Lori Neville and Jeanette Weaver. They did well on both days and were 11th overall. Lyn Smith, Cath Whiddon, Jocelyn Bertram and David Farmer were 15th overall, and Michael and Margaret Draper, Cassandra Mitchell and Clare Filmer-Ramsay finished 18th. it was a tough couple of days in the fiery furnace with lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth. But no doubt we will all do it again next year!
