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February 2016 English Bridge

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Suffolk

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IN the Championship Teams, Beeton (Graham

Beeton, Rick Hanley, Chris Chambers and Peter

Gemmell) won Round 2 and have chosen to play

Tattersfield (Roger Tattersfield, Jill Tattersfield, Neil Bresler

and David Cooper) in the semi-finals. The other semi-final is

Newman (Eric Newman, Mike Sherer, David Morran and

Julian Lang) vs Price (David Price, Jane Moore, Jenny Price

and Rosemarie Mascall).

Bushby (Peter Bushby, John Wilmott, Keith Belsey and

Diane Whitley) won the Plate.

The top three in the Suffolk Simultaneous Pairs were:

1 Bill Johnston & Mike Williams Frinton (72.14%)

2. Barbara Polding & Bill Rose Frinton (68.24%)

3. Paul Flavell & Bridget Smith Stansfield (66.26%)

The Club Teams of Eight was won by Ipswich & Kesgrave

(Robert Green, Peter Gemmell, Maria Allnutt, Tony

Shearman, Barbara Barker (Club Captain), Chris Chambers,

Anne Edwards and Phillip Edwards). The club qualify to

represent Suffolk at the 2016 Garden Cities.

The Summer Teams of Eight League concluded with

Colchester winning Division One and Woodbridge winning

Division Two.

Surrey

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WINNERS of the Senior Pairs by a large margin of

10% were John McKimmie and Nigel Barnes.

Sussex

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CONGRATULATIONS to the overall winners of the

Stratified East Grinstead Basic Bridge Pairs who

were Joan Moxham & Carol Mitchell. Other prizewinners

were Jim Downes & Thomas Serkowski who

were overall runners-up and Pat Comer & Susie

Swadling (mum & daughter) who won the

Stratification Levels B+C grouping and Christine Wright &

David Underhill who won the Stratification Level C grouping.

Gerry Stanford & David Cairns came first overall in the

Thursday heat of the 2015 Children in Need Simultaneous

Pairs. Well done to them and also to Christina Backholer &

Peter Griffin who were runners-up in the Wednesday heat.

More successes for Sussex players: Gerry Stanford, Nigel

Urban, Neil Watts and Dave Franklin were the winners of the

2015 Hills Trophy and George Phillips & Valerie Fearson won

the Kent Mixed Pairs Championship. Well done!

Warwickshire

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Congratulations to Pauline and Simon Hogan on

winning Chick O' The County. Leslie Reece & Peter

Oldbury were winners of the recent Senior Pairs

with Tony Poole & Terry Parkes 2nd.

Worcestershire

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THE County Championship Pairs will take place

on 6 Mar. All County Members are encouraged

to take part in what has always been an enjoyable

and closely-contested event The Garden Cities

Qualifier takes place on 10 April and all the clubs

in the County are invited to send a team of eight.

Yorkshire

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THE winners of the pairs event at the YCBA's 80th

anniversary celebration were Phil Godfrey & Stuart

Davies. At the EBU Overseas Congress in Rhodes,

Sandy Davies & Tom Gisborne won the Swiss Pairs.

Heather Hobson, Roy Garthwaite and Janet & Ted

Latham were third in the Swiss Teams.

Congratulations to the above, and to Tricia Pearce &

Stanley Bough for their victories in the county's Ryedale Pairs.

The Yorkshire Schools teams champions are comps@ebu.co.uktwood, Amit Portnoy, Conor Cooley, Henry Brock and

Josh Glover. The Minibridge team champions are Harrison

Nichols, Nathan Millett, Tom Harvey, Daniel Seavers and

Jonah Stevens.

Stratified Pairs - Grade A: Tom Gisborne & Sandy Davies,

Grade B: Jason Levesley & James Carpenter, Grade C: Wei Che

Tham & Rachel O'Brien.

19 - 21 February 2016

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Mixed and Open Pairs on Friday

Swiss Pairs on Friday & Saturday

Swiss Teams on Sunday

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( 01296 317203 or 1296 317219

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