Junior Tournament on Saturday

A good turn out of 14 tables eventuated and while it was a beautiful day outside in the Waikato - the players hunkered down to play 52 boards across two sessions.

The day's results are accessible via the results tab: http://www.piako.bridge-club.org/resultmam

Best of the bunch after a consistently great morning and afternoon session were Melanie Rex and Jan Johnstone from Tauranga. Second place getters Barbara Stimson & Lyn Bailie were also from over the hill in Tauranga whilst best Waikato pair were Liz Clayton & Jenny Oxley hailing from Cambridge.

Junior Tournament: Winners Melanie and Jan

Junior Tournament: second place Barbara Stimson and Lyn Bailie

Junior Tournament: Third Place: Liz Clayton and Jenny Oxley

There was some exciting boards to be played - none more so than Board 28 for some

Board 28 from the morning session DLR W VUL N-S:

	QJT432 T7 QJ5 76
AK6 4 A74 AQT543		97 AKQJ5 K2 K982
	85 98632 T9863 J

Kudos to Melanie Rex and Jan Johnstone who were the only ones in the room to bid and make 7NT. The board assisted the Tauranga pair to top place East West after the morning session with Putaruru Pair Rodney Vercoe and Dexter Morgan the overall leaders and top North South heading into the lunch break.

Junior Tournament: session 1 winners Melanie Rex & Jan Johnstone face off against the other winners Rodney Vercoe and Dexter Morgan

And what a lovely lunch it was.

Many of the field enjoyed the opportunity to soak in the rays during the break.

A chocolate also was awarded to Melinda Wang and Catherine Cameron from Hamilton who were the only pair to make a doubled contract ... They ended up in 5x by North on board 23 which went something like;

Board 23 from the morning session DLR S VUL Both:

	KJ762 AT85 KQJ9
JT43 4 QJ943 765		AKQ65 95 K AT832
	9872 AQT83 762 4

You can see why East was tempted to double the 5 bid.

Junior tournament: Michelle looks wistful whilst President Jan is doing the concentrating

Junior Tournament: The Matamata locals

Junior Tournament: Te Aroha hopefuls Shirley and Pamela