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     LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR AUGUST 21, 2008

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------
     1 Joey Mallick            1840      20     2        446
     2 Kate Fukawa-Connelly    1805      76    16        424
     3 Seth Lipkin             1799      74    21        430
     4 Jesse Day               1772       8     6        412
     5 Richard Buck          - 1767     130    59        417
     6 Jere Mead             - 1762       8     9        405
     7 Mark Fidler           + 1760      90    50        400
     8 Joel Horn             + 1756     176    83        418
     9 Jamie Ryan            + 1754     140    68        438
    10 Alyssa Faria          - 1753      81    31        423

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE   RANK
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------   ----
    Adams, Bruce             - 1745      92    40        411      12
    Becker, Bob              + 1706      76    76        394      20
    Bergmann, Jake           - 1680      42    47        396      23
    Cheras, John               1713      46    26        384      19
    Choslovsky, Marla          1532/A     0     6        305 
    Clinchy, Evans           - 1734      33    19        416      15
    Cole, Judy               + 1641     101   170        361      32
    Day, Catherine           + 1586      21    53        334      37
    Dubach, Joev               1685      19    22        376      22
    Durdan, Carl             + 1722      21    14        403      17
    Finn, Marshall             1611      12    27        345      36
    Giovinazzo, Linda        + 1644      61   107        358      31
    Green, Aaron               1595/A     5    14        342 
    Greenwood, Ben             1676/A    12    10        397 
    Guilbert, Chris            1737/5     3     2        417 
    Harrison, Ben              1721     170    87        415      18
    Heinrich, Sam              1489       6    24        337      41
    Horn, Judy               + 1692     138   149        389      21
    Kaitz, Merrill             1756/A     2     4        354 
    Katz, Larry              + 1677      88    99        377      24
    Kout, Trix               - 1575      79   265        338      39
    Kulig, Chris             - 1667       6     6        365      27
    Lutts, Tim               + 1614      27    42        364      35
    MacNeil, Rod             + 1737      70    42        430      13
    Mallick, Dave              UNR        2     1        428 
    McCumber, Carol            1677       8     9        391      24
    Miller, Ellen            + 1665      75    78        376      28
    Nagler, Zack               1555/A     4    18        351 
    Patterson, Elaine          1692/A    38    35        389 
    Reid, Gary                 1659      11    17        392      30
    Revkin, Barbara            1694/A    41    35        384 
    Richmond, Scott            1581      15    32        345      38
    Robbins, Bradley         ? UNR        2     1        423 
    Saul, Steven               1724      91    47        415      16
    Sheridan, Elayne         ? 1370/6     1     5        296 
    Shreve, Jon                1814/A    11     3        428 
    Siegel, Hilda            - 1533      14    58        320      40
    Sinacola, Chris            1670      30    31        379      26
    Spiller, Diana             1656/A    37    56        373 
    Stumpf, Thomas             1660       6    12        365      29
    Whitmarsh, Brad            1735      52    25        418      14
    Wilstein, Rob            - 1639      32    57        356      33
    Wolfberg, Mike             1748     115    66        419      11
    Wood, Betsey             + 1626      49    84        353      34
    Yorra, Wayne               1567/A    40    94        348 

There were 26 players in attendance when we last met on August 14, 2008.

We welcome Bradley Robbins to our club for his first visit last week. He is
a regular attendee of the Wednesday evening Manchester, NH club, and he was
the winner of Div. 6 at the recent NSC 2008 in Orlando, FL.

Congratulations to Bruce for having the high-above-average game last
week, in which he scored 560, 36.2% above his average.

Other high scores: Jamie 585, Joel 527, 524, 520, Bob B. 524,
                   Rod 520, Richard B. 512

High losing scores:
 Bradley R. 414 to Evans 477, Bruce 412 to Jamie 418,
 Evans 409 to Bob B. 431, Rob W. 406 to Judy C. 414,
 Linda 402 to Jamie 414, Jake B. 401 to Carl 428

High rating increase: Joel +15

These are the words challenged or considered last week:

GOM, OBE, SAL, ARBS, ARCI, BIRL, DELL, EMES, GORS, GOYS, HEYS, INRO, LUKE,
MURL, OSES, SELP, COMTE, COQUE, EPACT, GLUME, RAKEE, WIREY, ZEFTIG,
ACTINAE, AMIRATE, BEFLAGS, DENTATE, EQUATER, INLAYED, PACIEST, SINUATE,
STANDER, UNDRIED, UNSAVED, UTILISE, VAWARDS, ENCARDED, EXISTERS, MISSERVE,
OUTFINED, OUTRISES, RESIGNEE, RESWEARS, SINUATER, SINUATOR, TOURISTY,
UREDINIA
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(MOG), OBE, SAL (ALS LAS), ARBS (BARS BRAS), BIRL, DELL, EMES (SEEM SEME),
GOYS, INRO (IRON NOIR NORI), (LEKU), OSES, COMTE (COMET), EPACT, GLUME,
RAKEE, AMIRATE, BEFLAGS, DENTATE, PACIEST+ (ASEPTIC SPICATE), SINUATE
(AUNTIES), STANDER, UNDRIED, UNSAVED, UTILISE, VAWARDS, (CREDENDA),
(ENERGIES ENERGISE GREENIES RESEEING), (SWEARERS), (RUINATES TAURINES
URANITES URINATES), (RAINOUTS), TOURISTY, UREDINIA


News not mentioned one week ago:
 On 7-Aug-08 there were two tied games:
 Scott and Brad tied at 380, and Trix and Gary tied at 335.


In one of his games last week, Joel played 5 bingos, starting on his
first turn, and the others were three turns apart (turns 1, 4, 7, 10, 13).


In one of his games last week, Bob B. got all 10 of the major tiles:
JQXZSSSS??


The Eastern Championship 2009 is being held, but it is not going to be in
Danbury, CT, as expected, but it will instead be in Charlotte, NC. Details
can be seen at: http://www.charlottescrabble.com/ec/


Our club web site: http://LSC.wolfberg.net or via http://ScrabbleClub.com

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