Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in District 8's annual North American Pairs. The event, conducted in three separate flights, was open to all District 8 members who qualified in club-level NAP games earlier this summer.
The top two pairs in each flight won travel awards to Houston TX in March to represent District 8 in the national finals of their respective flights. The third-place pair in each flight also qualified for the national finals, but receives no ACBL travel award.
Overall winners and masterpoint awards are listed below. Included are links to the Saturday hand records (afternoon and evening) and the recap sheets from the two final sessions in each flight. The recap sheets display board-by-board results in traveler-style format. Thanks to Janice Franz of Springfield for the photos.
Saturday hand records: Afternoon page 1 page 2 Evening page 1 page 2
FLIGHT A (Open Championship) -- 10 tables Recap sheets: 1st final 2nd final
24.00 1 Jacque Sincoff - En Xie, St. Louis (left photo)
18.00 2 Tom Kniest, University City MO - Karen Walker,
Champaign IL (center)
13.50 3 Will Engel, Freeport IL - Colby Vernay, Lacon
IL (right)
10.13 4 Richard Blumenthal, Crystal Lake IL - Mike Halvorsen,
Champaign IL
7.59 5 Tom Oppenheimer, Ballwin MO - Milt Zlatic, St.
Louis
5.70 6 Lynne Feldman, Champaign IL - Chris Benson, Le Roy
IL
4.27 7 Lee Hastings - Mark Ehret, St. Louis
FLIGHT B (0-1500) -- 19 tables Recap sheets: 1st final 2nd final
24.00 1 Claire Krukenberg,
Charleston IL - Richard Brummer, Effingham IL (left)
18.00 2 F. Kellstrom, Chesterton IN - Louis Nimnicht,
Crown Point IN (center)
13.50 3 Fei Dong - Patrick Moos, Peoria IL (right)
10.67 4 Rich Pestien, Peoria IL - Michael Waters, Dunlap IL
9.60 5 Paul Holmes - Praveen Jayachandran, Champaign IL
8.73 6 William Finkenstadt - Sheryl Finkenstadt, St.
Peters MO
8.00 7 Dennis Spencer, St Louis - Debra Romero, Clarkson
Valley MO
7.38 8 Zach Freehill - Dave Freehill, Bloomington IL
6.86 9 Tim Cull - Julie Hubbard, Springfield IL
6.40 10 Dan Faulkner, Monticello IL - Gary Dell, Champaign IL
6.00 11 Randall Motchan, Bloomington IL - Carole Bardwell, Normal IL
5.65 12 Chris Grande - Sara Grande, Mishawaka IN
5.33 13 Donald Chase, Lake St. Louis MO - Wojciech Golik, St. Louis
FLIGHT C (0-500 non-LM) -- 9 tables Recap sheets: 1st final 2nd final
15.00 1 Shirley Logan, Springfield IL - Carol Sue McNaught,
Auburn IL (left)
11.25 2 Dennis Moll - Ann Schuyler, Bloomington IL
(center)
8.44 3 Maureen
Swihart, St. Louis - Linda Mize, Florissant MO (right)
6.67 4 Janet Woodley, O'Fallon MO - Karen Engle, Dardenne
Prairie MO
6.00 5 Charles Bretzke - Marie Bretzke, St. Louis