On to Washington DC for District 8 GNT Winners 

District 8 Grand National Teams -- April 30 & May 1, 2016

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up in District 8's annual Grand National Team finals, held at the UAW Hall in Bloomington IL. The winning team in each flight won a travel award from the District Board to represent District 8 in the national finals in Washington DC in July.

Championship Flight

  1 - Jonathan Weinstein - Ken Bland - Tom Kniest - Ron Ashbacher, St. Louis

 Flight A  (0-6000 masterpoints)

  1 - Richard Whitsitt - Lucille Jenkins - David Jenkins, Rockford IL; Meyer Abarbanel, Belvidere IL

  2 - Richard Ellis, Kokomo IN; Martha Leary, Urbana IL; Kathleen Safranski - Mike Carmen, St. Louis MO

Flight B  (0-2500 masterpoints)

  1 - Terry Goodykoontz - Brian Maloney - Melissa Maloney - John Maloney, Champaign IL

  2 - Grant Sterling - Mark Daily - Randal Malone, Charleston IL; D. Atteberry, Mattoon IL

Flight C (Non-Life Masters under 500 pts.)

  1 - Wes Seitz, Champaign IL; Larry Ziegler, Bloomington IL; Robert Shoop, Normal IL; Bill Strauss, Urbana IL

  2 - John Hagedorn - Kathy Hagedorn - James Eldred Pascoe - Brad Stout, St. Louis MO