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Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.
Club Corner

This is where you can read about news and events happening at our local clubs.

Aaron Silverstein will offer lessons on Tuesdays at The Bridge Deck starting at 11:15am, with a reduced table fee for the afternoon duplicate to follow. There will be pizza for lunch for all comers! And table fee for the 1pm duplicate only remains at $10.

Gail Greenberg teaches at the Hartes' Club Monday mornings at 9:30am. The lesson fee includes table money for the afternoon duplicate to follow.

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Heritage Hills has joined The Common Game! This means that all of the Open clubs in Unit 188 are playing under The Common Game umbrella. You can all compare notes!

Visit the Local Club section for links and information about regularly scheduled games.

 
Welcome to Unit 188
WCBA

Welcome to the Westchester Contract Bridge Association, part of the ACBL's District 3 and Region 3.
Spring in Westchester 2025
Spring in Westchester 2025

 

Thirty-two teams took part in the 2025 edition of Westchester's deluxe Swiss tournament at the Beach Point Country Club in Mamaroneck. First place went to Mimi Bieber & Paul Lewis and Faye Marino & Eileen Paley. The team of Karen Sloan & Sanjivane Bakare and Marie & Harvey Sugar topped the B and C Strats. See the full results table by clicking here.
 

More later on the events of the day including Unit 188's annual meeting and the distribution of 2024 awards.
Mabel Atkinson

Mamaroneck resident Mabel Atkinson is still playing bridge at age 106! Read the Westchester Magazine article about her here.
Player Performance

 

One Life Master Promotion in April.

Marcy Fabiani became a Bronze Life Master.  Debbie Cianciulli advanced to NABC Master, Smiljana Petrovic to Sectional Master, and Stephen Joynt to Club Master. New Junior Masters include Ira Finkelson and Jennifer Kaplan.

Congratulations!

Click here for links to full ACBL information and the status of the current 2025 Masterpoint races. To see the winners of the 2024 Masterpoint races click here to see a summary of the Ace of Clubs awards, here to see the Mini-McKenney winners and here for the list of Virtual Ace of Clubs winners honored for their online play.

 

Congratulations to those who came out on top in the January Royal STaC!

Ruth Chizzini and Bonnie Levar finished first in C-Stratification Monday afternoon at the Hartes Club, with 118 tables playing. On Tuesday afternoon at The Bridge Deck Susan Duval and Faye Marino took the points for first place overall in a 70-table contest. And on Thursday afternoon at Heritage Hills top C-strat points from 89 tables went to Fran Aufiero and Pat Held and Glafkos Keramidas and Lisette Voorhees. Well done!

Click here to see the week's full results. The next STaC is set to start June 16. Click here for more information.

Shout outs to winners at the Winter D3 Regional!

Michele Lazar, Erika Radin, Susan Schwartz and Deborah Rappaport won a Bracketed Teams competition Tuesday.

Ron Gerard and Nancy Molesworth came out on top in Thursday's Open Pairs.

See full results here.

Save the date for the next Regional, June 8-12 in Fairfield, NJ.

 

 

 
Neighboring Events

Here's what's happening in neighboring Units and Districts:

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Are you looking for an evening FTF game? Very rare, but there's an invitational game Thursday nights in Poughkeepsie. Email Jack Parry (joparry40 at gmail.com) or click for the full New Hudson River Bridge club flyer.

 

-- April Sectional -- April 26-27 in Edison, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

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-- Poughkeepsie Sectional -- May 2-4 in Poughkeepsie, NY. Click here for ACBL info.

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-- Unit 115 Sectional -- May 16-18 in Latham, NY. Click here for ACBL info.

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-- Spring Sectional -- May 16-18 in Edison, NJ. Click here for ACBL info.

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-- Memorial Day Regional -- May 22-26 in Astoria, Queens. Click here for ACBL info or here for the tournament flyer.

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-- 499er Sectional -- May 30 in Newtown, CT. Click here for the tournament flyer.

 

 
Results
April 19, 2025
Spring in Westchester
Director: Aaron Silverstein
April 28, 2024
Spring in Westchester
Director: Aviv Shahaf
April 30, 2023
Spring in Westchester
Director: Aviv Shahaf
Calendar
June 8, 2025
District 3 Summer Regional
Fairfield, NJ
District 3 Summer Regional runs June 8-12 at the Doubletree Hilton in Fairfield, NJ
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North American Pairs

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Congratulations to Richard Zucker and Ethan Stein, who won the 2024 NAP District 3 finals in Flight A, with a 60 percent score! 

Paul Lewis and Jill Marshall placed third, while Robert Rebelein and Farley Mawyer came fifth. Click here for the full results.

On to the Spring NABC in Memphis in March!

 
District 3 Regionals

District 3 held its latest Winter Regional in Suffern January 19-23.

Michele Lazar, Erika Radin, Susan Schwartz and Deborah Rappaport won a Bracketed Teams competition Tuesday.

Ron Gerard and Nancy Molesworth came out on top in Thursday's Open Pairs.

See full results here.

Save the date for the next Regional, June 8-12 in Fairfield, NJ.

 
D3 GNT Finals
D3 GNT Finals

 

Unit 188 players didn't manage to grab honors in the District 3 finals for the 2025 Grand National Teams competition. The team of Peter Stein, Richard Ross, Donna Dulet and Stephen Arshan took the Championship Flight title. See full results from the BBO online contest here.
Region 3

We are now a part of ACBL's Region 3, made up of Districts 3 and 4.

Visit the website to see news of interest in the area, and reports from leader Joann Glasson about decisions and discussion by the ACBL board.
Passings

A memorial service for Julian Laderman, who played at the Bridge Deck, took place on Sunday, Oct. 22 at Lehman College in the Bronx. 

We sadly note the passings of several other members in 2023: Joan Katz and Eva Lampert. In late 2022 we lost Kathy Fino, Cheryl Feldman and Beverly Jansen, as well as Ingrid Zablauskas Nargi.
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