On to Detroit for Nine District Pairs

District 8 North American Pair finals
November 10 & 11, 2007 -- IDOT Building, Springfield IL

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 Detroit 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.

Flight A  (Open Championship) -- 19 pairs:

1 - Colby Vernay, Lacon IL - Will Engel, Freeport IL
2 - John Kinst, Batavia IL - Richard Whitsitt, Rockford IL
3 - Jacque Sincoff - En Xie, St. Louis
4 - Milt Zlatic, St. Louis - Tom Oppenheimer, Ballwin MO
5 - Mike Carmen, St. Louis - Kathleen Safranski, Chesterfield MO
6 - Karen Walker, Champaign IL - Tom Kniest, University City MO
7 - Carol Schaffer - Ken Bland, St. Louis

Flight B (0-2000 masterpts.) -- 38 pairs:

1 - Tad Hofkin - Micah Fogel, Aurora IL
2 - Richard Brummer, Effingham IL- Claire Krukenberg, Charleston IL
3 - Jason Clevenger - Sasanka Ramanadham, St. Louis
4 - Donna Kaufman - Beverly Fast, Peoria IL
5 - Joshua Kueker - Paul Holmes, Champaign IL
6 - Clarence Willging, Freeport IL - James Ryan, Janesville WI
7 - Charles & Elizabeth Zalar, Springfield IL
8 - Gary Schechter, Springfield IL - Patrick Moos, Peoria IL
9 - Chris Grande - Sara Grande, Mishawaka IN
10 - John Kessinger - Marciann O'Brien, Decatur IL
11 - Ray Sigler, Trenton IL - Robert Cundall, Collinsville IL
12 - David Shanahan, St. Ann MO - Carol Warner, Fairview Hgts IL
13 - Linda Leinicke - Jerome Shen, St. Louis

Flight C (Non LM -- 0-500) -- 20 pairs:

1 - Joan Wieber, Ballwin MO - Mary Smith, Eureka MO
2 - Praveen Jayachandran, Champaign IL - Dan Bunde, Urbana IL
3 - Barbara Bass, Princeton IL - Shirley Bloch, Peoria IL
4 - Jonathan Goldberg, St. Louis - Thomas O'Reilly-Pol, St. Louis
5 - Dennis Moll, Bloomington IL - Ramesh Chaudhuri, Normal IL
6 - Paul Hartke - Lois Hartke, Effingham IL
7 - Debra Romero, Clarkson Valley MO - Sandy Bigg, St. Louis


A1 - Will Engel & Colby Vernay


C2 - Dan Bunde & Praveen Jayachandran