Duplicate Bridge: Oct. 24
Buffalo's Spooktacular Regional Tournament continues with pairs games and team contests at 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday, Oct. 25, in the Grand Island Holiday Inn, 100 Whitehaven Road, and closes with Swiss teams at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. For info, visit www.acbl.org.
Congratulations to Betty Metz and Diane Lyons, who recently competed in Meadville, Pa., for the District 5 North American Open Pairs. They won Flight C, earning 15 masterpoints and an all-expense-paid trip to the Spring 2010 ACBL national tournament in Reno, Nev.
The Bridge Center of Buffalo, 3362 Sheridan Drive at Sweet Home Road, Amherst, holds a Halloween Party at its weekly non-life masters game at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29. Hosting the lunch and game is Kathy Pollock. All who bring an item to share will be eligible for door prize drawings. Prizes will be given for best costumes. A special prize will be given to the pair with the lowest percentage. For info, call 834-4222.
The Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport, 247 Cayuga Road, Cheektowaga, holds its third annual Halloween Party at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, featuring creature culinary creations by Alex Miller. As usual at all of the club's games, triple points will be awarded at no extra charge. For info, call 603-6943.
The Wednesday intermediate lesson now begins at 10:30 a.m., at the Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport, with a fee of $7. Each lesson is self-contained. For info, call 603-6943. The lesson is followed by a free lunch at 12:15 p.m. and a triple point pairs game immediately afterward. All regular pairs games at the club offer triple masterpoints.
Next major event for Western New York Unit 116 is the annual meeting and game on Sunday, Dec. 6, in the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2735 Union Road, Cheektowaga. A Chiavetta's chicken lunch at noon will be followed by the meeting and the game. Tickets are $6 and must be purchased in advance by Nov. 27 from any unit board member -- Judie Bailey, Dick Czarnecki, Luke Danielson, Bob Lederhouse, Jay Levy, John Marvin, Betty Metz, Pat Rasmus or John Toy.
Also on the unit calendar:
-- A Split Unit Championship Game, Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Bridge Center of Buffalo and the Lockport Senior Center.
-- An evening honoring local player Joel Wooldridge, winner of two national championships and 279 masterpoints at thee 2009 Washington Summer Nationals, at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, in the Bridge Center of Buffalo. For info, call Bob Lederhouse at 625-9443 or Jay Levy at 861-1056.
-- The District 5 Winter Sectional Tournament at the Clubs (STaC), Monday, Dec. 7, through Sun., Dec. 13, at individual clubs throughout the region.
-- The Buffalo Winter Sectional Tournament, Jan. 8 to 10, at Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Snyder. Pairs games will be held at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with Swiss teams at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. For info, call Pat Rasmus at 649-4634 or e-mail prasmus@verizon.net.
The duplicate bridge column now appears in print every Saturday in the Living section of The Buffalo News, a change that took effect the week after Labor Day last year. The former Saturday and Sunday Pause pages were combined into a single page on Saturday. The online edition usually will appear here on www.buffalonews.com after the press run begins early Saturday morning.
The duplicate bridge column is compiled weekly by News Staff Reporter Dale Anderson, with a deadline of Monday night for scores and announcements to appear in Saturday's paper. This online edition has a Wednesday night deadline and is an expanded version of what appears in the Saturday Living section, with more scores and much, much, much longer notes.
E-mail: danderson@buffnews.com or dahotwings@aol.com.
Office phone: (716) 849-4420.
Dale Anderson has accumulated more than 600 masterpoints, thanks to all those triple point games at the Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport, but his quest to become a Life Master is still a work in progress. Can he get the 15 gold points he needs at the Buffalo Spooktacular Regional Tournament? That's among the topics on his bridge blog (now past its 165th installment) at his personal site at www.myspace.com/daleanderson. Posts from the tournament will show up there during the coming week.
Duplicate Scores Week of Oct. 12 to 18
ACBL Sanctioned Clubs
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Monday morning … North-south, A/B: Betty Dorio and Janet Frisch, 63.07%; C: Ann Smith and Paula Salamone, 52.00%; east-west, A: Luke Danielson and Bob Linn, 58.90%; B: Cleveland Fleming and Dorothy May, 56.73; C: Nadine Stein and Cynthia Helfman, 53.16%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Monday afternoon … North-south, A: Judi Marshall and Judy Padgug, 64.58%; B: Ruth Kozower and Judy Kaprove, 62.88%; C: Jane O'Connor and Isabelle Banas, 46.59%; east-west, A: Mike Kisiel and Bob Linn, 57.52%; B: Ed Drozen and Bruce Bronstein, 57.34%; C: Donna Pottle and Gina Campbell, 53.32%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Tuesday morning … North-south, A/B: Ruth Kozower and Mike Silverman, 61.22%; C: Marie Suprinick and Don Grant, 48.40%; east-west, A/B: Ross Markello and Bruce Burr, 61.22%; C: Jane O'Connor and Isabelle Banas, 46.96%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Wednesday afternoon … North-south, A: Judi Marshall and Beverly Cohen, 67.26%; B: Sandra Scheff and Mike Silverman, 62.20%; C: Bill Regan and Dave Donaldson, 53.27%; east-west, A/B: Dorothy May and Florence Notto, 63.99%; C: Diane Lyons and Bruce Bronstein, 58.33%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Thursday morning … North-south, A: Dorothy Boyd and Allen Beroza, 58.37%; B: Helen Panza and Mike Silverman, 51.85%; C: Ted Kahn and Ken Wagner, 51.42%;east-west, A/B: Adrian Figliotti and Eleanor Whelan, 62.94%; C: Don Grant and Robert Alan Davis, 53.68%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Friday morning … Howell. A: Bruce Burr and Ross Markello, 60.43%; Vince Pesce and Luke Danielson, 59.16%; B: Susie Weathers and Gina Campbell, 55.22%; C: Gerald Hooley and Phyllis Wilkinson, 49.78%; Betty Rubins and Jean Sullivan, 49.31%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Saturday morning … North-south, A: Judi Marshall and Meg Klamp, 60.88%; B: Frank Kidd and Mike Silverman, 59.72%; C: Judy Kaprove and Helen Panza, 50.23%; east-west, A: Shirley Cassety and Ross Markello, 57.87%; B: Bill Boardman and Cleveland Fleming, 52.78%; C: Bill Regan and Dave Donaldson, 52.78%.
Amherst Bridge Club at the Airport Sunday afternoon … Howell. A: Cleveland Fleming and Paula Salamone, 57.96%; B: Sushil Amlani and Jasbeer Makhija, 55.68%; John and Jini Rubinstein, 51.74%.
B&P Duplicate Monday morning … North-south, A: Anne Watkins and Nita Ferrell, 57.04%, B: Jack Miller and Marge Schomers, 56.2%; east-west, A: Barbara and Paul Libby, 60.61%, B: Paula Kotowski and John Kirsits, 60.22%.
B&P Duplicate Friday morning … North-south, A: Dorothy Boyd and Joan Lewis, 54.76%, B: Janet Frisch and Mary Davey Carr, 54.17%; east-west, A/B/C: Robert Alan Davis and Lou DiLorenzo, 65.08%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Monday morning … North-south, A: Stan Kozlowski and Judy Padgug, 64.21%; B: Donna Steffan and Berta Brown, 55.63%; C: Eleanor Whelan and Walter Olszewski, 55.37%; east-west, A: Fred Yellen and Buddy Seidenberg, 64.50%; B: Doug Dean and Joe Miranda, 58.25%; C: Dolores Warmuz and Anne Crandell, 52%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Tuesday noon … Non-life masters. North-south, A/B/C: Marilyn Sultz and Arthur Kean, Bob Silverberg and Richard McGowan, 56.85%; east-west, A: Carol Bedell and Dottie Soong, 69.94%; B: Paula Rosen and Maryann Szafran, 50.89%; C: Jane Roberts and Laura Houghtaling, 50.3%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday morning … North-south, A/B: Joanne Kelley and Irene Otto, 58.93%; C: Roger Lehman and Jim Keegan, 52.08%; east-west, A: Jay Levy and Donna Steffan, 66.67%; B/C: Dorothy and Ed Rupp, 52.38%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Wednesday evening … North-south, A: Jay Levy and Buddy Seidenberg, 63.99%; B: Bob Olin and Christy Kellogg, 47.62%; C: Elaine Universal and Bob Padgug, 45.83%; east-west, A/B: Judy Graf and Eugene Harvey, 59.52%; C: Bruce Bronstein and Jack Cukierman, 58.04%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday noon … Non-life masters. A/B/C: Agi Maisel and Sharon Chang, 52.11%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Thursday evening … North-south, A: Fran Kurtz and Pat Burns, 67.36%; B: Sandra Marcussen and Judy Bailey, 54.17%; C: Pat Lakeman and Mary Terrana, 50.46%; east-west, A/B: Walt Olszewski and Ken Meier, 60.19%; C: Martha Quinn and Lois Tippett, 48.84%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Friday morning … North-south, A/B/C: Anne Watkins and Berta Brown, 68.35%; east-west, A/B: Allen Beroza and Elaine Universal, 62.68%; C: Pamela Righter and Mary Ann Joyce, 48.56%.
Bridge Center of Buffalo Saturday morning … A: Christy Kellogg and Bert Hargesheimer, 74%; B: Janet Frisch and Bob Olin, 50%.
Bridge Club of East Aurora Wednesday … A: Bob Andersen and Linda Vassallo, 60.26%; B: Joe Benenati and Chuck Cookson, 58.65%; C: Paul and Meri Earl, 56.41%.
Buffalo Whist Monday … A: Elbert Hargesheimer III and Ing Gallant, 62%; B: Michael Ryan and Judy Graf, 57.08%; C: James Reineck and Warren O'Connell, 52.08%.
Delaware Wednesday … North-south, Edna Fill and Nancy Acara, 60.7%; east-west, Henry Chudy and Gabe Tannenbaum, 66.92%.
Lockport Duplicate Tuesday evening … A: Jim and Paula Jones, 62.8%; B: Roger Lehman and James Keegan, 62.2%; C: Mercedes Reinbolt and Sushil Amlani, 49.7%.
Lockport Duplicate Saturday afternoon … North-south, A: Jim and Paula Jones, 58.8%; B: Mercedes Reinbolt and James Madan, 55.4%; east-west, A: Peg and Bill Rieker, 63.3%; B: Edie Moran and Anne Clancy, 55.4%.
Other clubs
ABA Bridge Club … North-south, Juanita Tillmon and Beulah Thomas, 60%; east-west, J. Bailey Leftwich and Donna Lawton, 55%.
Amherst Senior Center Thursday … North-south, Lilly Pleskow and George Mayers, 59%; east-west, Sam Grossman and Bill Rich, 71%.
Canterbury Woods Duplicate Wednesday … North-south, Dee Schaeffer and Lil Ungerleider, 59.3%; Fritzi Schmitt and Helen Sfeir, 57.7%; east-west, Carolyn Mathias and Dot Sanders, 61.1%; Bob Jones and Ruth Lansing, 54.4%.
Clarence Senior Center … North-south, Elsie and Bill Rogers, 60%; east-west, Elaine Wegrzyn and Alan Ohloeft, 61%.
Friday Dupliclub … North-south, Ron Fill and Paul Morgante, 57%; Jennifer and Peter Reynolds, 56%; east-west, Norma Cook and Ethel Schippnick, 61%; Adam Dzimian and Al Ker, 57%.
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