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West Didsbury
Manchester
M20 3JJ
Tel:
0161-445 3712
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INTER COUNTY TEAMS OF EIGHT NATIONAL FINALS
Congratulations to Manchester on winning the national final of the B section in the Inter County Teams of Eight National Finals on Sunday 11 July 2010. The winning members were Eve Lighthill & Sidney Travers, Ian Kane & Ken Hassell, John Rudolf & Pauline Rudolf, John Roberts & Fred Bell. This was the first win in a National competition for many of the team. In the A section Manchester came a close second to Warwickshire. The A team was Gary Hyett & Raymond Semp, Alan & Kath Nelson, Rhona & Bernard Goldenfield, Alan Jones & David Barton.
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PRESIDENTS CUP
Seven Counties played in this annual event held this year in Carlisle over the weekend of 17 – 18 July 2010. Manchester, the holders, were lying in third place at the end of proceedings on Saturday. After 24 of the 36 boards played on the Sunday Manchester had dropped to 4th and seemingly out of contention. However with a dramatic push over the final 12 boards they overtook the three teams above them – Merseyside & Cheshire, Herefordshire and Yorkshire to win by 2 VP’s from Merseyside.Congratulations to:-
- Peter Jones & David Audley (both days)
- Raymond Semp & David Adelman (Saturday)
- Rhona Goldenfield & Boris Ewart (Saturday)
- Irving & Joy Blakey (Saturday)
- Raymond Semp & Gary Hyett (Sunday)
- Michael Newman & David Barton (Sunday)
- Tom Slater & Alec Smalley (Sunday)
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BGB SIMULTANEOUS PAIRS - Monday 26 July 2010 at 7:30 pm
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE NOT RUNNING A HEAT ON THE TUESDAY
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| How many World Champions needed to win Ruia Cup? |
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| This year's Ruia Cup was the best attended and the strongest competition ever. |
| Going into the final session Martin Taylor's team of Justin Hackett, Ross Harper and Paul Hackett had a comfortable lead over Catherine Draper's team.They made no mistake in the final matches with Mike Alexander, Barbara Hackett and Michael Byrne joining Justin for the final session to finish comfortably on a total of 144 with Catherine Draper, Dave Debbage, Andrew Woodcock and John Hassett on 129.It was a close run thing for third with Pauline and John Rudolf playing with Jean and Peter Hand securing third spot with 106 -just one ahead of Dave Audley, Jeff Smith and the Nelsons on 105 and Eve Lighthill, Ian Kane and the Rosenbaums on 103 team . |
| And the answer to the question in the heading.The answer is FOUR - Paul Hackett and Ross Harper are current Seniors World Champions, Barbara Hackett is a former Women's World Champion and Justin Hackett is a former Junior World Champion! |
| Next Swiss Teams Competition is the EVE LIGHTHILL TROPHY which will take place on three successive Thursday Evenings in September starting on Thursday 16th September at 7.30pm.Please enter with Jeff or Dave at the club. |
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PACHABO - NATIONAL COUNTY TEAMS OF FOUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Well done to the Manchester team of Michael Byrne, Michael Newman, Rodney Lighton and Tom Slater who finished 6th out of 32 teams in the Pachabo held over the weekend of 12 to 13 June. This was particularly commendable as Rodney and Tom are not a practised partnership. |
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Have just started in Ostend. Best of luck to players from the Club in the Open Event (Jason & Justin Hackett) and in the Womens (Barbara Hackett) and in the Seniors (Paul Hackett and John Holland). |
Sensational Win for Barbara Lewis in Merville Goldstone Trophy
Manchester's County Knockout teams competition played to choose a representative County team for the English Counties Teams of Four Championship (Pachabo Cup) is a fearsome event. Manchester is one of the strongest counties in the country and all the top players enter. So it is a remarkable achievement for Barbara Lewis's team (Sam Herman, Alec Smalley, Tom Slater) to win for the first time this year.
In the final they played Michael Byrne, Michael Newman, Gary Hyett and Rodney Lighton. After 24 of the 32 boards Barbara's team led by 1 IMP. Michael Byrne won the last eight boards by 1 IMP to make the scores dead level. Four more boards had to be played to break the tie, three of them were flat, but on the fourth Tom Slater and Alec Smalley bid and made an excellent slam to win by 11 IMPs! Well done! |
CROCKFORDS CUP VICTORY
Congratulations to Justin and Jason Hackett on winning the Final of the English Knockout Teams Championship (Crockfords Cup) over the weekend of 15 – 16 May 2010 together with Janet De Botton, Artur Malinowski, Andrew McIntosh & Nick Sandqvist. This is the second time in the last four years that Justin and Jason have been victorious in this event. Well done also to David Debbage who played in the team which finished in 5th place (Catherine Draper, Ollie Burgess & Andrew Woodcock.) |
CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
Well done to Rhona Goldenfield on winning the Club Championship for the ninth time in the last twenty one years!!! The new Club Championship started at the beginning of May and runs until the end of April 2011 with the best 21 scores counting. |
TONY WOOD MEMORIAL CUP – MONDAY NIGHTS
Starting from the beginning of May until the end of August there will be a Monday night competition for the Tony Wood Memorial Cup which will be decided on the best performance over eight Mondays. The trophy has been donated by Tony’s partner Beryl and his sister Janet. |
JUNIOR EUROPEAN PAIRS
Four of our junior players will be travelling to Croatia in July to play in the 10th Junior European Pairs Championship. Best of luck to Lavinia Constantin, Sinead Bird, Alex Birchall and Laura Bonney. |
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BEGINNERS
The next Beginners' Course starts
8 September 2010
more info>>
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EBU Junior Teach In at Loughborough University on 27th – 29th August 2010
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