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Eastern SCRABBLE® Championships
February 2001
Top 10 results

From Ron Tiekert --

Below are the top ten finishers, with pre-tournament ratings, in Divisions 1 to 4 of the Eastern Championship, held over President's Day Weekend.

DIVISION 1 (34 players)
Three-time national champion Joe Edley won his final 11 games to become the first 3-time Eastern Champion. Joe needed only to lose by fewer than 292 points to Matt Graham in the final round to clinch, actually winning 382-332.

place	rating	name	wins	spread	prize
1.	2011	Joe Edley	17	+1412	$600
2.	2009	Matt Graham	15	+ 826	$400
3.	1803	Joel Horn	13.5	+ 367	$260
4.	1760	Jean Carol	13	+ 263	$140
5.	1868	Bob Linn	13	+ 127
6.	1862	Rita Norr	12	+ 752
7.	1754	Marje Schoneboom	12	+ 106	$120 (1st Under 1850)
8.	1737	David Mallick	11.5	+ 267	$ 70 (2nd Under 1850)
9.	1790	Jan Dixon	11	+ 573
10.	2004	Robert Felt	11	+ 263

Last Gasp: Ed Halper $60 (winner of last 3 games by a total of 355 points)

DIVISION 2 (46 players)
Richard Senzel of the Honors club in Manhattan moved decisively into the expert ranks with a 16-4 performance. Richard held off Steve Tier, also an Honors club player, in a nail-biter 357-348 in the final round to clinch.

place	rating	name	wins	spread	prize
1.	1617	Richard Senzel	16	+1116	$400
2.	1655	Steve Tier	15	+ 705	$270
3.	1497	Marty Fialkow	13	+ 786	$180
4.	1693	Tom Kelly	13	+ 558	$120
5.	1522	Diane Firstman	13	+ 282	$100 (1st Under 1550)
6.	1651	Keith Hagel	12	+ 684	$ 80 (got prize for 5th)
7.	1507	Mark Penhallow	12	+ 642	$ 70 (2nd Under 1550)
8.	1675	Ed Neugroschl	12	+ 630
9.	1694	Ann Sanfedele	12	+ 260
10.	1535	Alan Kraus	12	+ 217

Last Gasp: Marie Puma $50 (winner of last 3 games by a total of 291 points)

DIVISION 3 (32 players)
Roberta Borenstein of Wilton, Connecticut needed to beat Charmaine Wolfe in the final round to clinch, and did, 395-298. Anthony Famularo of Toronto, who at 1052 chose to play up, upped his rating by a bushelful of points with a 12-8 finish against a field averaging more than 200 rating points above him.

place	rating	name	wins	spread	prize
1.	1310	Roberta Borenstein	15	+ 640	$310
2.	1404	Michael Ecsedy	14	+ 916	$210
3.	1491	Charmaine Wolfe	13	+1014	$130
4.	1307	Joan Gray	13	+ 331	$ 65
5.	1052	Anthony Famularo	12	+ 970	$ 80 (1st Under 1300)
6.	1344	Muriel Sparrow-Reedy	12	+ 587
7.	1339	Doreen Lucas	12	+ 13
8.	1381	Annette Tedesco	12	- 35
9.	1186	Don Hallenbeck	11.5	+ 9
10.	1130	Diana Spiller	11	+ 411

Last Gasp: Lynda Woods-Cleary $40 (winner of last 3 games by a total of 156 points)

DIVISION 4 (28 players)
Top seed Sharon Hawkes of Ridgefield, Connecticut finished strongly to overtake Kathy Hooper in the 17th round, then beat Kathy by 6 points in the final round to hold on to first place.

place	rating	name	wins	spread	prize
1.	1115	Sharon Hawkes	16	+1122	$210
2.	1018	Kathy Hooper	15	+ 645	$140
3.	1031	Annette Zeff	14	+1004	$ 85
4.	1051	Stephen Brudno	14	+ 360
5.	1009	Susan K. Greene	12	+ 565
6.	978	Barbara Revkin	12	+ 399	$ 60 (1st Under 1000)
7.	1074	Claire Slater	12	+ 248
8.	721	Marsha Gillis	12	+ 181	$ 40 (Last Gasp-- +268 in last 3)
9.	998	Adele Soldano	12	+ 98
10.	987	Ida Ann Shapiro	12	- 90

Susan K. Greene won a Hasbro-Milton Bradley prize with a non-bingo high play of 109 for ZAPS, which topped all divisions.

EC co-director Sherrie Saint John has already reported on the Mini tournament that was held on Saturday (Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:43:06 -0500; Subject: Danbury one-day mini tournament). Well worth a read if you haven't already.

-- Ron Tiekert; for himself, Susi Tiekert, Sherrie Saint John, Vernon Jones, Matt Hopkins, Charlene White, Roz Gold, and Ted Siegel (aka the EC tournament directorate and staff).

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