1st Charles Reinke sprung back from a 1-3 record the week before to go 4-1 +152. For the second straight week, he was defeated by Sara McLaughlin, this time by a score of 380-449. Charles got the high-probability bingo of SOILAGE, but Sara found LABORING and MERRIEST. Playing in a two-on-one game, Charles managed to beat Mark Kenas 502-437 at the same time he was losing to Sara; his four bingos (PENLITE, RETSINA, VEINULES, and DURATION) certainly helped ease the pain. In the following round, Charles took down Richard Lauder, 422-346, despite losing the bingo battle 1-2 (UNWARIER vs BOATLESS* and REALLOT). Charles matched up against Bryan Benwitz in round four, and prevailed over the undefeated (at that point) Bryan in a tense contest, 437-419, finding SALVOES and IKEBANAS for his bingos.

2nd Lynda Finn went 3-1-1 (that last "1" being a tie) with a +300 spread total. The tie was a low-scoring 347-347 bout with Helen Flores, where Helen was responsible for the only bingo that appeared on their board, the phony FAKEOUT*. Lynda was playing two games at once when FAKEOUT* went down (she was beating Dennis Lloyd 465-300 at the time), so if she needs an excuse for letting FAKEOUT* by, it was that she was distracted. Lynda alo scored big wins against Thomas Reinke (481-368, playing UNMOORED and SKIPPED) and newcomer John (504-358, playing LODGERS, SONLIKE, HONESTER, and TIMEOUTS). Her loss was to Bryan Benwitz in a game that wasn't very close, 353-477.

3rd Bryan Benwitz scored well above 400 in all his game, averaging a nifty 443 per game while going 3-1 +279. The aforementioned 477-353 win against Lynda Finn was his best game of the night, seeing him adorn the board with GOOSIER, OPIATES, and ASEXUAL. He also won a high-scoring match against Dennis Lloyd, 454-416. Both players had a 100-point bingo in that one: Dennis' RELOOKED for 102 and Bryan's INQUIET for 105. Bryan also handed Sara McLaughlin her only loss of the night with a solid 420-285 win, buoyed by finds of ERASION (the sixth most-probable seven letter word!) and SIDINGS. Two more bingos of RECITERS and CARROMED were played against Charles Reinke, but it wasn't enough to deliver Bryan an undefeated record, as he lost 419-437.

4th Sara McLaughlin also went 3-1 but missed out on third place with her lesser +45 spread. She is now 8-1 in her last nine games!

We welcomed newcomers John and Wendy to the club. While they only won one game between them, they displayed considerable skill and we hope they come back soon!