1st Thomas Reinke acquitted himself quite nicely with a 4-1 +423 record. He scored above 500 in three of his five games, with two of those coming against the formidable Scrabbling force that is his brother Charles. The first of those was a 520-431 win, where Thomas played RETINAS, DIERETIC, GENDARME, and LONGLEAF, and the second was a 529-458 victory which saw Thomas slap down SCARTING, ASPERSING, and GLEAMIER with relative ease. However, the full power of his Scrabble-playing might was reserved for Helen Flores, whom he took down by a score of 569-328. Helen got to play MEANIES in that game, which is an accurate description of the Reinke brothers.

2nd Peter Schmiedicke continued his comeback tour with a 3-1 +188 final tally. He handed Thomas Reinke his only loss when he won a squeaker, 436-427. Bingos of INCREASE, DINKIER, and ARMOIRES were deployed by Peter to great effect. On the lower-scoring end of the spectrum, Peter won another close one against Sara McLaughlin, 344-327. His single loss was to Charles Reinke, 387-416, despite outbingoing his opponent 2-1 (NOTATED and INTERRED for Peter, BOGLANDS for Charles).

Helen Flores' MONARDA was chosen as word of the week. A monarda is some sort of flower according to the fearsome knowledge aggregator known as Google.