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CHARLES RUNS UP WINNING STREAK

1st - Charles Reinke's 5-0 +546 was the evening's outstanding performance. With his winning streak at six straight, he is closing the gap on the club's top player, brother Thomas.   Charles played some fine bingos also in the 13 he landed in his five game sweep, including OVENBIRD, APOSTATE, NOSEDIVE, and the E laden REFEREED.

2nd - Thomas Reinke finished at 3-1 +328, losing a nail biter 371-373 to Richard Lauder in his only sub 400 score of the night. Against Peter Schmiedicke, Thomas lay down the word of the night, MOTLEYER in his 471-365 game with Peter.

3rd - Susan Vergeront played 7 bingoes over her 4 games, with 3 of her games scoring over the elusive 400 point level to finish at 3rd at 3-1 +117. She had the misfortune to be facing Charles Reinke in a game when Charles bingoed four times. Susan watched LOOSENER, SIRVENTE, APERIENT and the all too appropriate NOSEDIVE...bingoes by Charles in his 528-331 score there.

SUE GOLDSTEIN TOPS TEENSY INTERMEDIATE FIELD

1st - Sue Goldstein traded bingos and blows with Barb Besadny in the opening round, eventually losing 339-405 despite her bingo TRAINERS, to finish the night at 2-2 +13 and in the top spot in the two-field Intermediate group.

2nd - June Scott's 1-3 -250 gave her the penultimate position. June and Sue enjoyed a 3-peat as they played each other and had many a friendly laugh along the way in games #2,#3 and #4.

FULL QUORUM OF PLAYERS GATHERS AT HY-VEE

1st - Richard Lauder' 2-2 +137 narrowly topped Renati Umali similiar 2-2 -137 as they both enjoyed 4 games with the same opponent each time. Besides the same win-lose records, they also democratically shared the blanks during their head-to-head matches.

2nd - Renato Umali finished right behind the leader, while Richard Lauder was very lucky to finish just one place in front of the last place player. : )  A good time was had by all the players gathered together and at evening's end Renati was off to keep a date with Clementine.

THOMAS REINKE RUNS RAMPANT WITH THRE 500 GAMES

1st - Thomas Reinke set the scoring bar up there some when as he averaged 508+ on his way to a 4-0 +635 night to lead the small expert group of six.  Thomas's only threat came in his low game, a 435-390 win over brother Charles. His games were 534, 500, 565 and a "lowly" 435.

2nd - Chareles Reinke enjoyed a 3-1 +260 outing. highlighted with his own impressive 509-445 win vs. Richard Lauder. Charles played AMUSIVE, ANTHESIS, NAUSEATE, and CANINES in the 3rd highest combined score game so far this year.

3rd - Richard Lauder's 2-2 +47 just edged out Mary becker's 2-2 -45 to give the male contigent the top 3 spots this night.

SHARLIE MIURA WINS AND WINS AGAIN TO TAKE TOP SPOT

1st- Sharlie Miura's 2-0 +105 landed her atop the Intermediates, improving her year's winning percentage up to 64% with her unblemished showing. Sharlie opened with a 345-321 win vs. expert Helen Flores.

2nd - Sue Goldstein's 2-2 -159 neeted her 2nd place honors despite playing four games without a bingo to boost her scoring along her way.

3rd- Aki Miura's 1-1 +7 landed him in the 3rd spot this night. The Miura's will miss next week as they have a theater commitment that night.