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Lexington, MA SCRABBLE® Club Players at the NSC2002

Twenty of our regular club players attended the North American SCRABBLE® Championship tournament in San Diego, CA August 18-22, 2002. The following table indicates the performance of these players in the 692-player (by divisions: 132, 103, 135, 124, 111, 87) 31-game tournament.

                                       OLD NSA  NEW NSA
  PLAYER            DIV  RANK   WINS   RATING   RATING
  ------            ---  ----   ----   -------  -------
  Jere Mead          1      7   20     2042     2025
  Joey Mallick       1     17   19     1963     1951
  Rod MacNeil        1     76   15     1864     1833
  Mark Fidler        1     91   14     1841     1790
  Arnie Horowitz     1     95   14     1731     1756
  Dave Mallick       1    108   13     1842     1773

  Judy Horn          2     13   19     1821     1792
  Chris Guilbert     2     20   18     1773     1790
  Mike Wolfberg      2     28   17.5   1769     1757
  Joel Horn          2     44   16     1772     1708
  Elaine Patterson   2     63   14.5   1574     1598
  Gregg Foster       2     69   14     1538     1570
  Ben Loiterstein    2     86   13     1726     1607
  Bruce Adams        2     88   13     1680     1610

  Gerri Martin       3     93   14     1484     1463

  Gina Fassio        4     48   16     1354     1326
  Diana Spiller      4     59   16     1239     1282

  Leland Fidler      5      4   21     1046     1242

  Edgar Thomas       6      4   22     1082     1131
  Trx. Kt.           6     67   14      819      801

The NSA web site carried complete coverage of the event round-by-round, and it now has full details. Club member Sherrie Saint John served as the Internet correspondent, bringing up-to-the-minute coverage of the tournament as it took place. Club member Vivien Mallick worked as a word judge.