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THOMAS REINKE STARTS NEW CLUB SEASON WITH 100% WINNING PERCENTAGE

1st Thomas Reinke is averaging 456 on the year thanks to his 4-0 +433 performance.  His most dominant win of the night was in his round-one matchup versus Shayla Dunn, a match which he won 499-312.  If we extrapolate out, Thomas is likely to finish the year with 200 wins and not a single loss.  This would undoubtedly be the scrabble accomplishment of the century, so no pressure Thomas.

2nd Barb Besadny started off strong at 3-1 +109.  She brought out the big guns for a 441-269 win against Sue Goldstein, playing the bingos DEBATES and "FILMINGS".  Mark Kenas is probably the only player at our club who would be able to confidently challenge that plausible phony off the board.

3rd Shayla Dunn also had a 3-1 record, with a smaller +13 cumulative.  After being held bingoless against Thomas, she bested the other Reinke twin 403-378, again without the aid of a bingo, Charles' bingos of UNRAISED and DISENDOW not being enough.  A troubling trend emerged for Shayla for the new year, as both Reinkes had double-blank bingos against her.

SUE GOLDSTEIN STARTS THE NEW YEAR LIKE SHE ENDED THE LAST - ON TOP!

1st Sue Goldstein went 3-1 -36, all the more impressive considering that she had to face several expert players over the course of the evening.  She confidently turned away Lynda Finn in the final game of the night, 362-336, aided by her bingos of REBOOTS and GROANER.

2nd Sharlie Miura scored 325 in both of her matches, on her way to 2-0 +139.  Like her expert counterpart Thomas Reinke, she is setting herself up to go undefeated the rest of the year.

 14 players attended this week's Scrabbling phrensy.  Helen Flores played the word of the week, DHURRIE, which is an Indian rug.  Perhaps next week she can play the word FLOKATI, which is a Greek rug.  Charles Reinke attained high A with the word POONTANG (better left undefined), Shayla Dunn nabbed low N, Thomas Reinke earned high E with DEBRIDE (V. to remove dead tissue surgically), and Richard Lauder won low W. 

THOMAS REINKE SWEEPS THE EXPERTS  AT 5-0 +327

1st- Thomas Reinke emerged as this year's top scrabble expert with a 73.6% winning percentage. Staying true to past form on the last night of this year's club games, Thomas again won all five of his games. His only really close game was his nine point win (420-411) with the club's #2 player, brother Charles.  Charles is looking forward to next year's new start in his quest to replace Thomas as the club's Numero Uno guy.  Stay tuned...

2nd - Charles Reinke's 3-1 +428 easily landed him solidly in 2nd this evening. Chales finished the year with the highest per game club average of 436 in the regular players, and he was clearly bingo king this night with 11 bonus plays.  He played the high game of the night, a 535-385 win over Andy Bohnsack.

3rd - Andy Bohnsack's 3-1 +134 cemented 3rd place.  Andy had a very tightly fought game, besting Helen Flores 457-424 as he played bingos of DETRAINS, RATTLERS and PINWALES in his 33 point win.

SUE GOLDSTEIN TOPS INTERMEDIATES WITH 3-0 RECORD

1st -  Sue Goldstein emerged as the Top Intermediate player this year with her 56.8% winning percentage, coiupled with a  final 330 average. Sue's biggest game was a 368-310 win over Aki Miura.

2nd - Aki Miura finished second with a 1-1, opening his night with a 289-262 game with June Scott.

3rd - June Scott's 1-2 +25 carried our most veteran Intermediate player to a 3rd place finish in a small field of just four intermediate players. 

THOMAS REINKE SWEEPS EXPERTS

1st - Thomas Reinke, fresh off his refresher course dancing with the Scrabble Elite down Florida way, used his new found dance moves to demolish his challengers at the local club.  He even defeated a nemesis who bested him in his previous four games with Richard Lauder, winning this round with a 42 point cume in his 371-329 game with Richard.  Thomas opened that game with the best bingo word of the week, DAMOZEL, thankfully the 50 point bonus acquired by that play gave him enough cume to win the low scoring game.

2nd - Richard Lauder recorded a 4-1 +272, thanks to two wins in his five games in which he had triplicate bingos plays, ETOILES, GROANED, INSTATE in one and  SPLINED, RODENTS in the other accompanied by a somewhat plausible phony TEENAGES.

3rd - Lynda Finn's 4-1 +37 took 3rd place. Lynda, playing one vs. two in her final game, had two close encounters, a 361-337 game with Katie David, and a 319-281 "whew" win with Sue Goldstein. Lynda played the nice find TORULAE in her "challenge" match up with Katie David.

SUE GOLDSTEIN HOLDS STEADY AT 3-1 +232

1st - Sue Goldstein's 3-1 +232 cume cinched the top spot in a small group of Intermediates. Sue's sole lose came in a closely fought 281-319 closing game with expert Lynda Finn.

2nd -  Aki Miura took second with a 1-1 -33 evening,  as he narrowly defeated June Scott 306-302 in a typical Aki Miura defense laden game. Neither player found a playable bingo rack as they "tooth and nailed" their board to its final tally.

3rd - June Scott, also with a 1-1 but a larger negative cum of -93 secured 3rd place, June's win with a 303-292 with Sharlie Miura illustrates one again how very close many of the game scores in the Intermediate level often are.