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First Tournament: Plainview, NY July '01
Tournament First-Place Finishes:
Plainview NY, Nov.'01, Division 4
Plainview NY, May '02, Division 4
Bayside NY, July '03, Division 3
Bayside NY, Aug.'03, Division 2
Stony Brook NY, Mar.'05, Division 2
Albany NY, July '06, Div. 2, 7-game Early Bird
Tournament Second-Place Finishes:
Flat Rock, NC, Nov. '01, Division 4
Plainview, NY, Dec. '02, Division 3
Plainview, NY, Feb. '02, Division 4
Plainview, NY, Mar. '03, Division 3
Brookhaven,
NY, Oct. '04, Division 1
2004 Nationals in
New Orleans:
Seeded 59th in Division 4,
finished 20th.
18 wins, 12
losses, +748 spread.
Averaged 391
points/game, 6th highest in the division.
2005 Nationals in
Reno:
Seeded 77th
in Division 3, finished 91st.
13 wins, 15
losses, -365 spread.
Averaged 378
points/game.
2006
Nationals in Phoenix:
Seeded 98th
in Division 3, finished 84th.
13 wins, 15
losses, -433 spread.
Averaged 392
points/game, but ALLOWED 407 PPG,
third highest
in the division! Wide open Scrabble!
Highest Tournament Score:
572 vs. Jim
Fonti
Highest Club Score:
616
vs. Nick DeNezzo
Highest Tournament Score by
Opponent: 573 by
Verna Berg-Richards
Highest Club Score by
Opponent: 631
by Frank Romano! Final Score, 631-214
COOL
PLAYS
- Highest scoring play:
In club - triple-triple BAROQUES for 212 points vs. Stu Goldman;
in tournament - triple-triple KVETCHES for 185 points .
- A seven-letter overlapping bingo!! In club game
vs. Richard Reiben, he hooks TAINTER* onto BIN late in the game
(which I left on the board because he originally laid down TERTIAN,
then picked it up). I then slotted SINUATE right underneath
it, to form BINTS, AI, IN, NU, TA, ET and RE
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Highest
combined game score (win) - 968 points (486-482 victory over Arthur Doreson in tournament game)
-Highest
combined game score (loss) - 1,026 points (521-505 loss to
Marjorie Schoenboom in club game, and I only took 10 pts. from her
rack at the end of the game!)
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A 10-letter bingo
through DISCONNECTED letters! LA on the board with an I two
spaces to the right of it. With rack of DNNORTU, I saw
possibility for the word and played off the R with a 1-in-20 chance
of drawing another U. I got it and played
UNDULATION!
- A 10-letter bingo: with ADD on the
board, and a rack of LINRST?, I played STRADDLING (club game)
- Another 10-letter bingo: with VEG on board and
rack of AAEINRT, extended it to VEGETARIAN
Five bingos in
one club game: PRONATE, UNRATED, SIENITES,
REALISE and SENOPIA
- Opponent opens with ZOA, which I extend to
PROTOZOA for 60 points (online game)
- I open
with WORTH, which I front- and back-extend on the next play to
SEAWORTHY, hitting the triple word score
-Two NINES in one game: HELLFIRES and bingoed out with
SENORITAS!
I'm earning a reputation as a player of NINE-LETTER BINGOS!
50 and counting...
(letters in teal were already on the
board):
FLATTERED SENORITAS
HELLFIRES
PSORIASIS
PARROTERS UNBRAIDED
MEASURERS MISPLAYED
PERTAINED
INTERLACE
INACTIONS PLACATERS
MENTORING TELEMARKS STARCHIER
ENCRUSTED INFINITES OBSTINATE
BEDFRAMES
COLANDERS
YEARLINGS
PILLORIES
ATTAINDER TRIMESTER
FRAILTIES ISLANDERS
TESTIFIES
FINALISES
ESTUARIES
TORTOISES
MARINATED LIBERATED ENTREATED
BORDERING
TINCTURES
UNITARIAN
TRADITION DEADENING GLOBALISE
RECALLING
DISTRICTS
ESTRANGER
LITTERING
BACTERINS
DERAIGNED
COVERAGES
INTERLOPE
GALLERIAS
PERILUNES
REVULSION
MORE GEEKDOM
- MY W-L-T RECORD VS. CLUB OPPONENTS since 2003:
BERNIE MCMAHON
308 - 175 -3
BOB
KRAUSE 205
- 59 -4
AL
ZITZMAN 215 - 48
MATT STYCZYNKSI
121 - 102 -1
JIM
FONTI 146 - 70
DEBBIE SULLIVAN
123 - 36
FRANK ROMANO
53 - 79 -1
EILEEN JOHNSON
85 - 34
ARTHUR DORESON
74 - 49
STEVE SIKORSKI
64 - 53 -2
COLLEEN SHEA
91 - 21
RICH
REIBEN
39 - 63
MARIE
PUMA 58 -
41
DAVE CONFORD
59 - 30
RICH
FERRARA 34
- 45 -1
GEORGE BORSUK 41 -
18 -1
CARL
NAPLES 51
- 12
DENISE MAHNKEN 53 - 14
STU GOLDMAN 22 - 42
HELENE BROWE 22 -
30
JIM
YEE 28 - 13
MARJORIE SCHOENBOOM 18 -
21
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