Wife kayoes hubby
in Spingold upset
The team captained by Mike Kamil rallied in
the fourth quarter to defeat the No. 1-seeded Roy
Welland squad in the Spingold Knockout Teams.
Welland’s wife, Christal Henner-Welland, plays on
the Kamil team.
Kamil, the No. 16 seed, was down 27 IMPs at
the halfway point, but closed to within 8 with a
quarter to go. They won the last set 55-43 to
advance to the round of eight. Kamil and Henner-
Welland are playing with Peter Bertheau and
Fredrik Nystrom of Sweden and Italians Claudio
Nunes and Fulvio Fantoni.
Welland’s all-star squad includes Bjorn
Fallenius, Zia Mahmood-Michael Rosenberg and
Polish experts Cezary Balicki-Adam Zmudzinski.
Six of the eight teams still in the event have
stars from overseas.
In another upset, the original No. 19 seed (Peter
Schneider) came from 19 down with a quarter to go
to oust the No. 3 seed (Richard Schwartz) 128-119.
The lowest seed still in contention is the
original No. 28 (Warren Spector), who took the
measure of Jim Mahaffey’s No. 12 seed 164-105.
The semifinal and final rounds of the Spingold
will be broadcast live on BridgeBase and e-bridge.
Eight-year-old can’t
wait to play bridge
Adam Kaplan ( see p2)
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 Attendance to date - So far at New York 2004, the total attendance is 10,222 tables.
They won the National 199er Pairs:
Matthew
Bresler and Steven Winer.
Grad students win
199er championship
Two young players who met at Brandeis
University came from behind with a big second
session to win the National 199er Pairs by nearly
two boards.
The winners are Steven Winer of Melrose MA,
a law student at Boston University. His partner is
Matthew Bresler, a medical student at Rochester
University. Besides the masterpoints and the
prestige of winning, they also receive watches from
the Gold Group, whose wares are on sale at the
ACBL Product Store.
Second place went to Larry Goldstein of
Harrison NY and David Katzman of Greenwich
CT, who rallied from 20th place in the standings at
the halfway point of the two-session event.
The 199er Pairs attracted 42 tables, the largest
field ever in the event.
The winners, who were in third place with a
session to go, met as undergraduates at Brandeis
University. They lived in the same dorm in college and discovered that they both knew how to play
bridge. That was about four years ago. They have
played off and on since then, including online
(OKbridge).
Their 66.29% game propelled them to victory.
On a top of 11, their final score was 344.5 to 325
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Narasimhan, Sprung
reach Wagar final
The team captained by JoAnn Sprung had it
when they needed it – they staged a powerful lastditch
rally to defeat the Valerie Westheimer team,
116-108. That puts Sprung into today’s final against
the squad captained by Hansa Narasimhan.
Narasimhan led all the way against the Lynn Baker
team, fending off a Baker rally to win 181-154.
Westheimer (Judi Radin, Mildred Breed,
Shawn Quinn, Stasha Cohen, Cheri Bjerkan) led by
5, 8 and 21 at the quarter marks. But Sprung
(Kathleen Sulgrove, Pam Wittes, Renee Mancuso,
Karen Allison, Peggy Sutherlin) piled up 54 IMPs
over the final 16 boards while holding Westheimer
to 25.
Baker (Lynn Deas, Beth Palmer, Kay Schulle,
Kerri Sanborn, Disa Eythorsdottir) scored 80 IMPs
during the last 16 boards – more than the 74 they
got in the first three quarters. But it was a case of
too little too late – Narasimhan (Irina Levitina, Jill
Levin, Sue Picus, Debbie Rosenberg, JoAnna
Stansby) had a 65-point lead with 16 boards to go.
Narasimhan and Sprung will play a 64-board
final today. The final will be broadcast live on
BridgeBase Today.
East-West combo
lead in IMP Pairs
Players from California and New Jersey were
in the lead after the qualifying sessions of the
Lebhar IMP Pairs. The leaders are Bin Dai of
Mountain View CA and Chi-Yen Lai of East
Brunswick NJ.
They managed 114.1 IMPs, to 105.55 for Allan
Stauber, Cross River NY, and Jonathan Green,
Kingston NY. Right behind them were Andrew
Rosenthal and David Moss of New York City.
New Life Master
Mary Bladen of St. Petersburg FL dropped out
of bridge for eight years, but she’s back with
renewed interest. She earned enough points in the
Big Apple Knockouts to earn her gold card.
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