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News from Greater St. Louis Unit 143


Player of the Year

Milt Zlatic, a gentleman and friend to all bridge players, is the 2019 winner of the Ed Schultz Player of the Year award. Milt (left in photo) was presented the award by Unit President Mark Boswell at the St. Louis Winter Sectional on January 18, 2020.

Milt celebrated his victory by winning the most masterpoints at the tournament, so he has a good head start on next year's award.

Congratulations, Milt!
 


Welcome to new members:

Fadel Alkilani

Sharon Hollander

Raymond Roettger

Fran Mannis

Alex Newman

John Niemeyer

Carolyn Roettger

Sharon Salls

Diane Sher

Michael Zeng


Winter Sectional -- January 18-20, 2020

Our winter tournament at Blanchette Park awarded more than 1084 masterpoints to 291 players. The top point winners were:

    1  38.34   Milton Zlatic, Saint Louis MO
    2  34.69   Jack Bryant, Saint Louis MO
    3  23.18   Judy Eaton, Edwardsville IL
    4  21.70   Tod Moses, Saint Louis MO
    5  20.42   Robert Griffin, Saint Louis MO
    6  20.06   Mark Boswell, Clarkson Valley MO
    7  19.59   Clay Cuthbertson, Quincy IL
    8  19.43   En Xie, Saint Louis MO
    9  17.86   Lee Hastings, Saint Louis MO
  10  17.66   Arbha Vongsvivut, Godfrey IL
  11  17.02   Egon Diekhoff, Maryland Hgts MO
  12  16.65   Mark Zellmer, Creve Coeur MO
  13  16.40   Rod Van Wyk, Alton IL
  14  16.38   Nate Ward, Champaign IL
  15  15.89   Nancy Popkin, Saint Louis MO
  16  15.64   Ron Ashbacher, Saint Louis MO
  17  15.57   Mark Kessler, Springfield IL
  18  15.57   Karen Walker, Champaign IL
  19  15.27   Mike Giacaman, Saint Louis MO
  20  13.89   Alan Popkin, Saint Louis MO
  21  13.05   Michael Carmen, Saint Louis MO
  22  13.05   Kathleen Safranski, Chesterfield MO
  23  12.24   Susan Perez, Ballwin MO
  24  12.09   Kenneth Bland, Saint Louis MO
  25    9.81   Debra Romero, Clarkson Valley MO

  A list of all event results and masterpoint winners is here.
 


  Unit 143 Spring 299er Tournament 

Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29, 2020

St. Louis Bridge Center

For more details, check the ACBL online calendar or contact tournament chairman John Welte  jwelte1590@charter.net

Partnerships:  Phyllis Siegel   unit143pship@gmail.com