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Selection was made for the Open, Women’s and Senior categories. A trial was held
for the Intermediate Team.

Open: Liz and Blair Fisher, Barry Jones and Jenny Millington, reserve pair Michael
Ware and Mary-Ellen Newton

Women: Jenna and Christine Gibbons, Kate Terry and Judy Pawson, reserve pair
Rebecca Osborne and Gillian Corbett

Senior: Hugh and Di McAlister, Kathy and Ken Yule, reserve pair Alan Parkes and
Graham Stern

Intermediate: Elspeth Goodrick and Wendy Blackman, Bettina Dudley and
Rosemary Wilkey, reserve pair Andrew Reynolds and Mark Lynch

The Waikato-Bays Regional Committee has put together a seminar on Directing and Scoring to be held at the Rotorua Bridge Club on 8th June. National Director Allan Joseph will be presenting the directing side of things and the scoring is up to Michael Neels of Cambridge. Click on the attachment below to download the day's programme. Attendees are asked to kindly enter online to assist the caterers' planning

Scoring a tournament on the day is just the tip of the iceberg. All the real work is done beforehand. In this video we discuss:

Regional Championships 2024
This year’s Regional Championships, previously known as the Inter-Provincials, was completed, face to face, in Wellington. Your Waikato–Bays (W-B) Team did well, and very much enjoyed the experience. This is a brief report for the benefit of members in the W-B region.
Our Team:
OPEN – Michael Ware/Hugh McGann; Liz and Blair Fisher; Jo and Sam Simpson
WOMEN – Jenna and Christine Gibbons; Kate Terry/Judy Pawson; Rebecca Osborne/Gillian Corbett
SENIORS – Rachelle Pelkman/Murray Wood; Yuzhong Chen/Gary Foidl; Di and Hugh McAlister

After seven rounds of the Waikato-Bays Intermediate League, last year's winners' names could have been engraved on the handsome (rapidly-turning-into) gold (but-it-used-to-be-silver) trophy before Sunday's final at Cambridge. Leanne Curry and Megan Jolly of Hamilton shared first-equal placings with 32 points earned over eight events. Third equal were John Little and Graeme Saunders from the Waikato club with 24 points narrowly ahead of Marcus Dudley on 23 and Bettina Dudley of Te Puke on 20. Although they are Individual series the Leagues certainly show up the values of practiced partnerships.

Leanne & Megan with WB Treasurer Kevin Whyte