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Lexington, MA Scrabble® Club Players at the NSC98

Several of our regular club players went to the North American Scrabble® Championship tournament in August, 1998, and some did very well. In the following lists, names with a suffix asterisk have attended our club but we don't consider them as regulars.

Division 1 (players rated 1800 and up)

Place
    3  Jere Mead
   21  Adam Logan (defending North American champ)
   23  Merrill Kaitz
   28  Joey Mallick *
   49  Steven Saul
   56  Arnie Horowitz
   62  Daniel Goldman *
   65  Matt Graham *
  101  Mark Pryzbyzewski *
  107  Ann Sanfedele
  112  Mark Fidler
  116  Ben Withers *
  117  Bruce Adams
  119  Joel Horn
  122  Dave Leifer *

Division 2 (players rated 1500-1799)

Place
    1 Jerry Scheiten *
    6 Scott Appel
   23 Martin Smith *
   39 Judy Horn
   56 Elaine Patterson
   65 Scott Leifer *
  145 Joan Orvis

Division 3 (players rated 1200-1499)

Place
    1 Ben Loiterstein
   37 Rod MacNeil (and prizes for a high win and a high loss)
   53 Gregg Foster (and had the high play in a round on Wednesday)
   95 Hilda Siegel
   97 Tom Wood *
  132 Peg Whitten * (played only 18/31 games)

Division 4 (players rated under 1200)

Place
   94 Scott McDougall (and a prize for the biggest comeback in the division)

The NSA web site has the complete coverage of the event. Our club member Sherrie Saint John served as an Internet correspondent, bringing up-to-the-minute coverage of the tournament as it was taking place.