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     LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 12, 2009

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------
     1 Jere Mead               1795       1     0        500
     2 Seth Lipkin             1793      12     3        461
     3 Merrill Kaitz         + 1791      14     4        427
     4 Evans Clinchy         - 1782      38    12        440
     5 Brad Whitmarsh        - 1780      18     6        431
     6 Rod MacNeil             1772      13     6        439
     7 Alyssa Faria            1769      12     7        435
     8 Steven Saul           - 1764      27     8        426
     9 Mark Fidler           + 1750      19    10        406
    10 Richard Buck          - 1745      24    14        416

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE   RANK
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------   ----
    Adams, Bruce               1730      11    10        405      16
    Becker, Bob              + 1719      22    16        391      17
    Bergmann, Jake           + 1739      15     6        413      11
    Cassel, Claudia          + 1569      10    37        338      35
    Cheras, John               1702       5     9        384      21
    Choslovsky, Marla        - 1543       3    12        339      37
    Cole, Judy               + 1672      27    31        376      24
    Day, Catherine           + 1587       5    21        318      31
    Dubach, Joev             - 1668       1     5        359      25
    Durdan, Carl               1739      17    12        404      11
    Finn, Marshall             1625       3     8        356      29
    Fukawa-Connelly, Kate      1793/A     2     1        397 
    Giovinazzo, Linda        + 1641      15    14        370      27
    Greenberg, Morris        - 1587       5    13        368      31
    Greenwood, Ben             1705/A     0     1        306 
    Guest, Cornelia            1706       2     3        373      19
    Harrison, Ben            - 1733      28    13        404      14
    Hass, Trevor               1444/A     0     2        311 
    Heinrich, Sam              1574       3     4        395      34
    Horn, Joel               + 1738      38    21        417      13
    Horn, Judy               - 1698      25    31        393      23
    Katz, Larry              + 1701      26    17        389      22
    Klopper, Aron              1483       0     2        279      39
    Kraus, Marvin            + 1444       3    15        305      41
    Kt., Trx.                + 1575      19    49        338      33
    Lutts, Tim               - 1631       4     9        353      28
    Marshall, Norma          - 1543       6    21        334      37
    McCumber, Carol            1702/A     1     2        409 
    McDougall, Scott           UNR        1     1        399 
    Patterson, Elaine          1716/A     1     2        349 
    Pechvijitra, Noo           1438/A     0     4        318 
    Prince, Jackie             1578/A     2     5        358 
    Revkin, Barbara            1704       9     6        403      20
    Rosenthal, Rob             1699/A     2     2        360 
    Rosin, Sam               ? UNR        1     1        468 
    Ryan, Jamie                1746/A    11     3        434 
    Sinacola, Chris            1732      12     2        412      15
    Spiller, Diana             1648       7    12        379      26
    Vembusubramanian, Mohini   1428       0     1        307      42
    Waldbaum, Joe            ! 1472       1     1        358      40
    Wolfberg, Mike             1719      17     8        411      17
    Wood, Betsey               1610       7    21        362      30
    Yorra, Wayne             - 1567      15    36        353      36

There were 26 players in attendance when we last met on November 5, 2009.

We welcome Sam Rosin to our club for his first visit last week.
Sam was visiting this area from NJ. He has a NASPA rating in the high 1800's.

Congratulations to Evans for having the high-above-average game last
week, in which he scored 620, 41.7% above his average.

Other high scores:
 Joel 564 and 513, Sam Rosin 538, Larry 513, Richard B. 510

High losing scores:
 Brad W. 441 to Bob B. 452, Brad W. 420 to Joel 490,
 Tim L. 417 to Jake B. 426, Evans 414 to Ben H. 478,
 Steven S. 404 to Joev 429, Trx. 404 to Ben H. 473

High rating increase: Marvin +22

These are the words challenged or considered last week:

AIT, DUH, ERI, ERS, FOD, OOT, POR, YUH, GIGA, KAIL, MOMI, OPER, OPES, OVAS,
SIXT, SLOP, YOBI, AMIAS, ATUNE, BEAUT, DEFIS, DEMIN, DURES, EVENS, FINNY,
FROWS, GLANS, LEAFS, SWORM, VAUNT, WIREY, GEISER, GOOSEY, ILIUMS, JOBMAN,
PREWAX, THRONG, UNLOST, ZORILS, AERUGOS, ATONIAS, AUGURED, CATTLES,
DECRIAL, FEASING, GEEZERS, GLOWIER, JINGLER, LOSINGS, MATHIER, NOVENAE,
OUTNOSE, PARTITA, PIANOES, SWINGED, UNSLOTS, URTICAS, VARIOLA, ANISOLES,
ATRESIAL, AWNINGED, BARRINGS, BROIDERS, DEMIURGE, EXCELING, NATURISM,
OPSONISE, PECKINGS, PERPENDS, ROSEOLAS, ROUTINGS, SORBANCE, SWOONIER,
VAULTIER, VITIATOR, FRETTERED, INDURATES, SHAFTERED, ENVIRONMENTAL,
ENVIRONMENTALS
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AIT, DUH+, (IRE REI), ERS (RES SER), OOT (TOO), (PRO), GIGA, KAIL (ILKA),
MOMI, (PORE REPO ROPE), OPES (EPOS PESO POSE), (AVOS), SLOP (LOPS POLS),
AMIAS, BEAUT (TUBAE), DEFIS, (DENIM MINED), DURES (DRUSE), EVENS (NEVES
SEVEN), FINNY, FROWS, GLANS (SLANG), LEAFS (ALEFS FALSE FLEAS), (WORMS),
VAUNT, GOOSEY, THRONG, ZORILS, AERUGOS, ATONIAS+, AUGURED, DECRIAL
(RADICEL RADICLE), FEASING, GEEZERS, JINGLER, LOSINGS, NOVENAE, PARTITA,
(EPINAOS SENOPIA), SWINGED, VARIOLA (OVARIAL), ANISOLES, AWNINGED,
BROIDERS (DISROBER), DEMIURGE, NATURISM (NATRIUMS), (SPOONIES),
(SPECKING), PERPENDS, ROSEOLAS (AEROSOLS), (OUTGRINS OUTRINGS ROUSTING
TOURINGS), SWOONIER+, VAULTIER, VITIATOR, INDURATES, ENVIRONMENTAL

Larry set a new club record last week, scoring 136 for the highest
non-bingo. The long-standing (8.5 years) record of 109 had been recently
broken when Judy C. made a 111-point play in late July. Here is Joel's
description of how the play was made: After Larry played WeBSITE at K3 to
take a sizable lead, I played EMeRGE at 4I to set up a couple spots. He
played ANI at 3M to try to block. I drew an S, but couldn't use the spot
very well, so I played HOP at 2M to set up my S.  He then played EPISODIC
at O1 for 136 (through PI).

At the recent 19-game tourney in San Francisco, CA, there was one
open division of 130 players. Brad placed 8th, and in the lower half
were Judy C. and Betsey. Judy reported it was one of the most fun
tourneys she has ever attended, since there were lots of activities,
as well as the San Francisco waterfront just outside the hotel door.

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

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