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From: Steve Oliger <soliger@epix.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:13:27 -0400
Subject: Lancaster County Oktoberfest Tournament
Message-id: <3.0.2.32.19971019171327.006b5054@epix.net>

Pat Cole directed her first tournament this past weekend, in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania). The turnout was impressive, especially for an initial tournament, as 104 players came to Amish country.

Below are the UNOFFICIAL results. Note that I have listed the entire Expert Division, but only the top players in the remaining three divisions. I leave it to players from other divisions to post further details, if they so desire. 


EXPERT (20 Players)

 1 Jan Dixon        11-3         +1187
 2 Larry Sherman    10-4         +550
 3 Joe Weinike      9-5          +418
 4 Gordon Shapiro   9-5          +194
 5 Sal Piro         8-6          +217
 6 Susi Tiekert     8-6          -48
 7 Marlon Hill      7-7          +464
 8 Marge Schoneboom 7-7          +283
 9 Rose Kreiswirth  7-7          +228
10 Diana Grosman    7-7          +5
11 Steve Oliger     7-7          -457
12 Tom Kelly        7-7          -760
13 Joan Kelly       6-8          +31
14 Stan Scott       6-8          -93
15 Dee Jackson      6-8          -150
16 Verna Berg       6-8          -304
17 Mark Berg        5.5-8.5      -286
18 Tunde Ogunyemi   5-9          -119
19 Jeanne Beatty    5-9          -615
20 Mary Capalbi     3.5-10.      -822

INTERMEDIATE (36 Players)

1 Nancy Hanley        12-2 +660
2 Hillary Gojldberg   10-4 +460
3 Mark Goodman        9-5  +665
4 Dave Goodman        9-5  +583
5 Ed Neugroschl       9-5  +367
6 Florence Spanfelner 9-5  +366
7 David Lieberfarb    9-5  +303
8 Marian Yoder        9-5  +204


ADVANCED NOVICE  (24 Players)

1 Robin Schlauch 11-3 +432
2 William Pizer  10-4 +217
3 Jeff Cook      9-5  +568
4 Jane Fuller    9-5  +539


NOVICE  (24 Players)

1  Linda Stephanides 11-3 +648
2  Woody Chen        11-3 +282
3  Harold Vernon     10-4 +545
4  Ruth McCandless   10-4 +156
Miscellaneous Comments -- Sal Piro won the class prize in Expert for being the highest finisher from the lower half of the division...Last place in each division won a fudge cowpie...Gordon Shapiro and Marlon Hill, paired in the final game, traded considerably more curses than bingos. This didn't bother Rose K, who was sitting beside them, as she defeated Tom K by 267 points...In my game with Bark Merg, he opened with HEBE and then played YID... And I lost challenges to two carpentry words on Friday evening -- UNSAWED and UNNAILS.

In a comedy of errors between me and Sal, here is the sad sequence of events in that endgame:

  1. I fail to block an S hook on GIT.
  2. Sal plays SPEILER on GIT for 91.
  3. I challenge GITS, firmly believing it is bad, altho I can win if I don't challenge.
  4. Sal only has seconds on his clock. He misses several out spots for his OAT, and plays AT for 12 points.
  5. I can still win by playing HA for 28. But my score is off, & I think I need 31 to tie. So I play the phoney THA for 31.
  6. Sal has 8 seconds on his clock. He goes out for 6. I tell him we appear to have a tie. He tells me I win by 10.
  7. We double check, and Sal is right! It would have been poetic justice if we had called it a tie, as neither of us deserved to win.

That's it from the bowels of ignominy. Thanks to Pat Cole for hosting our gala event. Thanks also to Matt Hopkins who had to pair 104 people without a computer. And also to Ron Tiekert for helping Pat and Matt throughout the tournament. (Ron, who will be attending WSC, did not play, but came down with his wife, Susi.)

Steve Oliger