It was quite something see 19 our club rooms full to play the last of the Intermediate League today.  We welcomed 38 pairs from 12 other clubs. One car load came from Hawera and new Plymouth just for the day! What an effort!

And there was some success for Cambridge too! Jenny Oxley and Barbara Read got off to a stupendous start and won the EW morning session prize.

Our new Regional Bridge Mate, Eunice Eccles, won the best Junior-Intermediate pairing with Malcolm Kirkby from Te Aroha. An excellent result for them.

Huge congratulations to Saty and Matt who had a MASSIVE morning scoring 67% leaving the rest of the field behind in the overall standings at the end of the day. Saty and Matt do not venture out to many tournaments these days so it was an extra special win for them.  Well played gentlemen!

We all enjoyed having Margaret back at Bridge tonight and helping her celebrate her 95th birthday (actual date 1 October).  Until last year Margaret played Monday, Wednesday and Thursday most weeks so it was wonderful to see her back at the club tonight and I was privileged to play with her.

Cambridge has been well represented in this weekend's National Open Restricted Pairs which was held at the Distinction Hotel in Te Rapa. Jane Stearns  & Di Emms finished 7th with solid results in all four sessions while Kate McFadyen & Gwyn Lobb came 18th followed by Clare Coles & Kevin Whyte in 22nd place out of a field of 62 pairs.

Our very own Eunice Eccles has been appointed one of seven Regional Bridge Mates (RBMs) in the country. (RBMs are distinct from the Bridgemate tabletop devices we use at the club.) They are a newly implemented concept of Jane Stearns who was elected to the NZ Board on the back of the work she has been doing these last five years rejuvenating memberships of clubs in decline.

On Friday 22 Sep we enjoyed our final round of The Waikato Interclub Teams more fondly known as TWITs.

A belated congratulations to Michael Neels and Eunice Eccles for leading the way in the Open-Junior section of the Rotorua Open Restricted competition on Saturday. Coming 5th overall they really did themselves proud scoring 56% in the morning and 55% in the afternoon. Very consistent!