Tokoroa And Putaruru Bridge Clubs

The combined team of Tokoroa and Putaruru romped home in first place at the Waikato Interclub Teams event in Hamilton today.
Interclub Team 2015
Eight teams from the region competed. In the junior section Ross and Susan Provan, using some of their new bidding techniques from the Nesting Pairs course combined with Sven Johannsen and Willy Ryder from Tokoroa to win the Junior section.
Pride of Putaruru

I definitely heard Vera say, "You should go away more often" at the half time point in the WAP on Sunday at Morrinsville. They put in an outstanding performance and are clearly on hot form going into next Saturday's interclub competition.
Vera and Sandy rampage the field in Morrinsville

Tokoroa went LIVE across the nation Tuesday night. With their new electronic scoring they were able to not only have their club results recorded, but the scores were then compared across the wider field of other clubs playing the same boards on the same night. So they also competed aganst Hutt, Hamilton, Te Aroha, Invercargill, Te Puke, Papatoetoe. When compared against a larger field variations in the result occur as strange anomalies are ironed out. Congratulations to Gary Cuttriss and Barbara Brammall who were the top placed Tokoroa pairing in 6th position.

Putaruru and Tokoroa Bridge Clubs are joining forces to enter the Waikato Interclub Teams event on 4th July. Smaller clubs have been encouraged to join together to form a team and the clubs will be on debut at the start of next month. The Open team comprises Sandy Davies and Vera Verhaegh from Tokoroa with Michael Ware and Mary Ellen Newton kindly stepping in to make up the open section as Putaruru do not at this stage have an open pair.

Congratulations to Eileen Barker and Rosemary Ward coming top in the afternoon session at the Rotorua Charity Tournament on Wednesday. Also Putaruru's Eva Wadey and Dora Davies, currently on a roll of good form, came third in the afternoon session. Meanwhile Tokoroa's Katie Mole with partner Max Burne came third in the morning session. Sadly there seems to have been a gremlin in the scoring and the full results are not on display but we have it on good authority that Eileen and Rosemary finished 6th overall.

TOP PUTARURU PAIR
Taking top slot for the home side were Eva Wadey and Dora Davies. In an open field these two intermediates battled bravely for a finish above halfway in the field and an over 50% average. Congratulations to them both. The winners were Susan Hardy and Margaret Hodgson from Rotorua. The event was scored using Bridgemates and the detailed analysis of the boards can be found on the results page.

Finally made it to the South Waikato News

Many thanks to Joyce Catchpole from Matamata and Wayne Benefield at Auckland Bridge Club. They have donated books to start a library at Putaruru. Marjorie has taken on the task of setting it up. You should soon find a lovely selection of books to choose from to inspire and raise your game! Thanks to Marjorie for stepping forward to organise this. We hope to have it on show in time for the Putaruru Open tournament.

With 36 pairs competing in Heat 3 of the WAPs series it was great to see two Tokoroa pairs taking part. The afternoon session saw Vera and Sandy come second in their section with 58%. Well done also to Graeme and Willy for entering the shark pool and coming out with over 50% in their second session.

Applauding the efforts of both clubs. I have over 20 students so far registered for bridge lessons starting next week. So really well done in finding new people to introduce to our marvellous game. I will be encouraging all the students to join their home club following lessons and to play bridge at both clubs to hone their skills and get really stuck into their bridge. They come almost equally from both clubs. Still hoping for the South Waikato Times to come to the party and hopefully publish something next Wednesday.