♠  District 8 North American Pairs  ♠

November 8, 2015 -- Fluid Event Center, Champaign IL

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in District 8's annual North American Pairs (NAP) finals. The event, conducted in three separate flights, was open to all District 8 members who qualified in club-level NAP games this summer.

Overall winners are listed below. The top two pairs in each flight won travel awards to Reno NV in March 2016 to represent District 8 in the national finals of their respective flights. The third-place pair in Flight A and the third- and fourth-place pairs in Flights B and C also qualified for the national finals, but receive no travel awards.

  ♠  Printable hand records:   Afternoon     Evening

FLIGHT A (Open) -- 9 tables    Full recaps:   Afternoon     Evening

1 - (left) Milt Zlatic - Tom Oppenheimer, St. Louis  

2 - (right) Nate Ward - Karen Walker, Champaign IL

3 - Martha Leary, Champaign IL - Dick Ellis, Kokomo IN

4 - Debbie Avery - John Seng, Champaign IL

5 - En Xie - Randy Baker, St. Louis

FLIGHT B (0-2500) -- 15 tables      Full recaps:   Afternoon     Evening

1 - (left) Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL - Norman Goldman, Chesterfield MO   

2 - (right) Bob Sievers - David Wetzel, Champaign IL 

3 - Matthew Fultz, - James Kart, Ft. Wayne IN

4 - Craig Bontjes, Oregon IL - Don Malone, Rockford IL  

5 - Cindy Moore - Lori Moore, Bloomington IL

6 - Mark Daily - Grant Sterling, Charleston IL

7 - Bob & Sherry Steigmann, Urbana IL

8 - Gary Chaney, Sherwood OH - Kimberly Grant, Ft. Wayne IN

9 - William Morgan - David Stevens, Charleston IL

10 - Meg O'Leary - Marciann O'Brien, Decatur IL

11 - Gary Dell - Bob Shair, Champaign IL

FLIGHT C (0-500 non-LM) -- 9 tables   Full recaps:   Afternoon     Evening

 1 -  (left) Aaron Krieser - James Voelz, St. Louis

 2 -  (right) Bill Strauss - Wes Seitz, Champaign IL 

 3 -  Alin Olaru - Sorin Vasile, Peoria IL

 4 -  Gary Rotert, Carlyle IL - Paul Bridges, Swansea IL  

 5 -  Bill Thompson, Champaign IL - Mary Stuart, Urbana IL