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Hawaii NABC
Second place in the Marsha May
Sternberg Women's Board‑a‑Match
Teams: Seated, JoAnna Stansby,
Hansa Narasimhan and Debbie
Rosenberg; standing, Jill Meyers, Jill
Levin and Rozanne Pollack.

score of 20. They followed that up
with a score of a board below average
in the second set, but their lead was
sufficient.
In second place with 33.05 were
Hansa Narasimhan, Rozanne Pollack,
Debbie Rosenberg, JoAnna Stansby,
Jill Levin and Jill Meyers.
The team captained by Judi Radin
was third with a score of 32.66. Others on that squad were Sylvia Moss,
Linda Lewis, Pam Wittes, Pamela
Granovetter and Shawn Quinn.
Marsha May Sternberg Women's
Board-a-Match Teams

1. Lynn Baker, Austin TX - Karen McCallum,
US - Kerri Sanborn, Stony Point NY - Irina
Levitina, Hackensack NJ - Lynn Deas,
Schenectady NY - Beth Palmer,
Silver Spring MD
36.00
2. Hansa Narasimhan, Los Altos Hills CA
- Rozanne Pollack, Basking Ridge NJ -
Debbie Rosenberg, New Rochelle NY - JoAnna
Stansby, Castro Valley CA - Jill Levin, Bronx
NY - Jill Meyers, Santa Monica CA
33.05

3. Judi Radin - Sylvia Moss, New York NY
- Linda Lewis, Sioux Falls SD - Pam Wittes,
Venice CA - Pamela Granovetter, Cincinnati
OH - Shawn Quinn, Richmond TX
32.66
4. Daniela von Arnim, Hockenh, Germany -
Mildred Breed - Tobi Sokolow, Austin TX
- Sabine Auken, Charlottenlund, Denmark
- Barbara Sonsini, Woodside CA - Janice
Seamon-Molson, Hollywood FL
32.61
5. Gen Geiger - Bette Cohn - Gigi Simpson,
Sarasota FL - Pat Levy - Esta Van Zandt,
Houston TX - Donna Compton,
Dallas TX
32.05
6. Carol Clifford - Harriet Eaton - Tina Tessaro,
Miami FL - Maris Zilant, N. Miami FL 30.76

Senior KO champs: George Mittelman, Melih Ozdil, Amos Kaminski, Pinhas
Romik and Yeshayahu Levit.

Senior Knockout Teams
With one board to go, the score in
the Senior Knockout Teams was tied
at 120 IMPs. On the last deal, the
contract at one table was 3 making four for plus 170. At the other,
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the contract was 4, and whether it
made or not would decide the event.
Yeshayahu Levit and Pinhas Romik
of the Kaminski team found an
excellent defense to set the contract,
making their squad the winner of the

7. Joan Eaton, North York ON - Cathy Strauch,
San Diego CA - Peggy Sutherlin, Dallas TX
- G. Margie Gwozdzinsky, New York NY 30.66
8. Lynne Schaefer, Ellicott City MD - Sheri Winestock, Las Vegas NV - Suzy Burger,
West Bloomfield MI - Martha Katz,
Hinsdale IL
28.61
9. Joann Glasson, Pennington NJ - Lisa Berkowitz, Boca Raton FL - Shannon Cappelletti,
Hollywood FL - Stacy Jacobs, Hinsdale IL
- Chris Benson, Le Roy IL - Ginny Schuett,
Riverwoods IL
26.16
10. Miriam Varenne, Monaco - Sue Weinstein
- Migry Zur Campanile, Las Vegas NV -
Cheri Bjerkan, Elmhurst IL
24.82

Senior KO Teams by a 6-IMP margin.
The winners are Amos Kaminski,
Melih Ozdil, Yeshayahu Levit, Pinhas
Romik and George Mittelman.
The team members live in the U.S.,
Canada, Turkey and Israel. How did
they form their team?
Four of them played in the Spingold
Knockout Teams in Chicago. The had
moderate success and decided to play
again in Honolulu with Romik added
to the team. Ozdil and Mittelman
were the anchor pair playing all four
quarters of the final day.
Their opponents in the final, the
squad led by Gene Freed, took a 6IMP lead after the first quarter and
extended it to 15 at the half. Freed
was still ahead by 13 IMPs entering
the final quarter, before Kaminski
nosed ahead at the finish.
Playing with Freed were James
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