Roundup - Week 32

Sparked by the outpouring of joy over the Cambridge Sixes your correspondent has had the bright idea of collating links to articles on the Region's websites in a weekly digest of what has been making the headlines. This should, perhaps, be compiled on a Tuesday to give the reporters time to wax lyrical over the weekend's victories and other causes celebres. If your club has something of moment you'd like others to see please please let us know by way of the Contact tab above.

As intimated above, the huge happening of Week 32 was the Cambridge Sixes. You can read about it from different perspectives here:

or .. take a look at the Huntly Bridge Club's site where Jane Stearns has been working her special brand of magic this season.

"Bridge is the wave, catch it or wipe out!" - Sapphire Mercer

Bay News 4-AugBay News 4-Aug

Deal 24 Boards in Under 5 Minutes

Check out this YouTube video on how to get through that dealing assignment real quick!

Follow the North Island Pairs this weekend

Click here to view the results session by session as they get posted from the North Island Pairs in Hamilton over the first weekend of August.

WB Teams Grade Trophies Final at Cambridge on 28th August

With the Bay Teams settled over the last weekend of July, the Waikato-Bays Grade Teams Final is all teed up. Click here to read Tauranga's well-deserved delight at doing so well at Rotorua.

Thank you to Pub Charity Ltd.

The Waikato Bays Regional Committee applied to Pub Charity Limited for funding to assist our Inter-Provincial representative team with accommodation in Dunedin at the end of the year. We are very pleased to announce that the application was successful, having receiving $6653.74, which was the amount we applied for, minus the GST component.

Our committee is extremely grateful to Pub Charity as their grant ensures we are able to fund other activities rather than siphon off our funding in this area.

Thank you BridgeNZ

New boards filled with cards donated by BridgeNZNew boards filled with cards donated by BridgeNZPat and Martin Oyston of BridgeNZ in Wanganui have supplied the Waikato-Bays Region with a shiny new set of 32 bright yellow boards for educational use, donating all the of cards needed to fill the boards. Initially these boards are being put to good use by Jane Stearns as she gives the Huntly club a dose of her special magic.

Register your interest in the upcoming Directors Exams

The Waikato Bays sponsored a seminar for budding club and tournament directors at Matamata in the weekend.

Alan Turner led the seminar imparting his wealth of directorial knowledge to 22 who attended.

Alan imparts his directorial knowledge at MatamataAlan imparts his directorial knowledge at Matamata

For anybody that is interested, the directors exams are scheduled for 16/17 July (club and tournament exams) and the 29/30 October (club exams only).

I/J Leagues take another step forward at Tauranga

The fourth round of nine in the Waikato-Bays Intermediate League Championship took place in Tauranga on the 18th of June. The room was packed with a field of 33 players. Peter and June Hagan of Tauranga had an excellent day, coming top East-West in the morning and top North-South in the afternoon to win the day outright. They had a clear lead over second-placed John Little and Graham Saunders of the Waikato club who were followed by two of the region's nominees to attend the Inter-Provincials in Dunedin, Hattie Curtis and Bruce Ballard of Katikati.

WB Inter-Provincials Team Named

The Waikato-Bays Inter-Provincial Teams trials were held at the Tauranga Bridge club on the weekend of 14th-15th May. The director was Rona Driscoll also Chair of the WB committee and the scorer was Jan Spaans, the WB secretary. These two combined to make the whole weekend seamless and enjoyable by everyone.

Syndicate content