Twelve teams representing Gosford - CCLCBC, Bateau Bay - Community Bridge Club) and Brisbane Water entered the Interclub Teams event held at the Gosford Leagues Club. The event went right down to the wire with BWBC Team Tomlinson hoping to overtake round 5 leaders Gosford Team Clarke. At the same time Gosford Team Mills were also in a winning position but would have to score a BIG final round. Our congratulations go to BWBC Team Tomlinson taking 1st spot with a 5-0-1 score card. The winning margin was a slender one point buffer over their nearest rivals (Gosford Team Mills).

BWBC fielded 4 teams all keen to improve on their last Gosford outing. Team Foster finished 4th disappointed not to repeat their winning ways from previous years.  Team Hume slipped to 8th after holding 2nd place at the end of round 4.

The event was directed by Ronnie Ng who kept a firm eye on proceedings.  
Gosford supplied drinks and nibbles at the close of play which was greatly appreciated by a hungry mob errr… group of players.

BWBC Teams
1st Tomlinson: Chris Hasemore, Barry Foster, Hope Tomlinson and Martin Johnson
4th Foster: Lorraine Lindsay, Chris Hannan, Jaan Oitmaa and Sylvia Foster
8th Hume: Felicity Fane, Heather Brown, Elaine Hume and Peter Hume
9th Van Der Walt: Kathy Ivits, Alma Van Der Walt, Marcelle Goslin and Ron Meaney.

Fourteen duos signed up for the Summer Pairs held on a typical Aussie summer day.  What a battle it was; at least for North South. On the other hand, East/West players Richard Carter and Lorraine Lindsay were on fire winning by an incredible 8%. The battle for North/South was a much closer affair. Saturday stalwarts, Sylvia Foster and Jaan Oitmaa squeezed out a win by a single percentage point.

To make the day interesting there were a couple of slams available and a few hands with opposing long suits that made bidding, at times, very competitive.

Our next red point event, Valentine’s Day Pairs, is a couple of weeks away. Watch this space for details.

With Covid swamping the ‘Coast’ we were never going to match the record numbers achieved in the 2020 version of this event. On that magical Day Tom Tomlinson was sent home to collect more tables to cater for 80 players! Ah… memories. Now back to the present.

Thirteen pairs contested this year’s event all keen to open their red point accounts for 2022. There were lots of challenging boards causing bidding strategies to go astray from time to time. However, Christine Hadaway and Jackie Wilson handled the play best scoring a comfortable 2% win.  Well done ladies. Wednesday morning regulars, Carol Anderson & Edith Marshall, finished an impressive 2nd edging out Martin Johnson and Chris Hasemore by a small margin.

Unfortunately, we could not run a novice section due to lack of numbers but hopefully our next event (Summer Pairs next Saturday) will see some renewed interest.

Starting Tuesday 1 February, Peter Hume will be standby director.

If your partner is unavailable and you are looking for a game on Tuesday afternoon, you can come to the club and you will find a partner.

Twenty one pairs entered the New Year’s Cup our first Red Point event for the year.  There was plenty of good competition on the day but winners NS Martin Johnson & David Snow and EW Ed & Robin Vaughan made light work of us all with convincing winning percentages (64% & 66%).
Quite a few of our Novices participated in the event honing their skills for Novice/Restricted competitions to be held in the not too distant future.
 All in all we had an outstanding session of bridge. We had the largest field for some time although it was noticeable that some players celebrated New Year far longer than others!