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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. 

Lynda Finn Tops Field of Eight in Experts

1st - Lynda Finn rode a sub-par bingo night into a perfect 4-0 finish to capture top spot in the Experts on a night when the club's heavy scorers went AWOL. Lynda's biggest game was a 475-286 single bingo game, with Barb Besadny. Lynda made her bingo count as it was a triple-triple, AROINTED.

2nd- Michael David was bingo king with nine. on his way to a solid 4-1 +342 secondo place finish. Michael turned back Peter Schmiedicke 480-401 as he laid down three bonus plays, SPRUCED, TRADING and the phony aeroles.

3rd - Mary Becker's 3-2 +178 carried her to a 3rd place final spot.  Mary played PALSIES in her 423-339 upset win over Michael David in their 2nd game match up.

KATIE DAVID RULES INTERMEDIATES @ 3-1 +79

1st - Making a all too rare appearance, Katie David rolled to a 3-1 first place finish in the Intermediates, including her 361-341 two bingo finish (INTONES, UNHEATED) with expert Gail Salm.

2nd - Sharlie Muira took 2nd place with a 2-0 +108 outing, besting expert Helen Flores 351-321 with her bingo SLEWING providing the winning cushion,

3rd - Dee Lillge took 3rd with a 1-3 -193 final tally. Dee was the only player who kept Katie David from a perfect night, as she won their opening encounter 404-331 when she found and played FINGERED as a nice bonus play.

REINKE TWIN #1 (THE GOOD LOOKING ONE) EMERGES VICTORIOUS FROM NIGHT OF WORD COMBAT

1st Charles Reinke deployed his tiles with panache en route to 4-and-0 +170 night. His closest win was a seventeen-point squeaker versus visiting verbophile Steve Hartsman, 429 to 412.

2nd Thomas Reinke had only one loss (to his bro Charles) to mar his evening, going 3-1 +123.  Opponents were dismayed at Thomas' anagramming prowess as he laid down ten bingo plays over the course of the night, including the nice 9-letter find INTIMATED.

3rd Visiting Milwaukeean (Milwaukeeite?) Bill Rexhausen showed that those from Brew City can throw down words with the best of them, putting up a record of 3-2 +143.  He scored above 400 in his two losses to the Reinkes, and accumulated a monster 538 points against club director Richard Lauder, assisted by bingos of MARLINGS, FITTING and INTERNES.

JUNE SCOTT MAKES EASY WORK OF INTERMEDIATES

1st June Scott won her two games of the night, whomping both Aki and Sharlie Miura with scores of 408 and 361 respectively.  She played two bingos on the night, SLASHED and STAGGER.

2nd Sharlie Miura had a 1-and-1 performance with a negative eighty spread.  She won her first game of the night 323-314 against Dee Lillge.

Thirteen players came out to Barnes and Noble to shuffle tiles.  We welcomed new player Bryan Benwitz, who tested his mettle at Lynda's recent tournament before journeying to our club.  Peter Schmiedicke played the word of the week, ZONATION, one of his two bingos with a Z this week (the other being UNGLAZED).