Shetland Inter-county - May 2016

24 Orkney bridge players made the trip to Shetland to take part in the 10th annual Inter-county competition, with Shetland having won the last 2 meetings and leading the series 5-4 Orkney hoped to come away with a victory.

36 boards were played over 2 sessions on the Saturday afternoon and unfortunately Shetland gave us a thrashing to extend their lead.

Saturday evening was the Pairs Competition and with 22 pairs playing 24 boards, Orkney regained some pride with Davie & Mike continuing their good form to take the Cup.

Sunday was the Teams of Four Competition, this event has generally been won by a Shetland team but the biggest cheer of the weekend went up when the winners were announced as Orkney's Margaret & Linda and Katherine & Pat.

This has been another hugely enjoyable weekend, Shetland always proving to be great hosts, when they come down us next year we'll need to step up a gear and try for the clean sweep.

Members can view the results & hands on the Club Page.

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The Inter-county marks the end of the Winter Duplicate Bridge in Kirkwall as the Bowlers have reclaimed their Club House.

Duplicate Bridge continues to be played in Dounby on a Tuesday night - visit their website: http://www.bridgewebs.com/dounby/

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Bridge Club - April 2016

Another successful year at the club saw Davie & Mike regain the Match Point Shield, they had a slow start to the year but once they got their noses in front they weren't caught.

After having come so close on a number of years Alan & Linda finally got their hands on the Handicap Shield.

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Kirkwall Ladies Bridge Club - March 2016

The Kirkwall Ladies celebrated the Club's 70th anniversary at the end of March.

At the Club's dinner Ella & Muriel cut the cake and Ella gave a speech. At 96 Ella has been a stalwart of the 3 Kirkwall clubs and represents Orkney in our Inter-County events.

Sadly, failing eyesight meant she felt she could not continue coming to the club nights and so stopped at Christmas.