CROSBIE IMROVES BY 38 POINTS – BECOMES TOP DOG

OSHAWA, March 15th: -What a difference a 7 day’s makes at the weekly Optimist Club of Oshawa sponsored Monday Nite Progressive Euchre party.Well that’s the way Sandy Crosbie see’s it improving by 38 points from Mar. 8th to Mar. 15th. He jumped from 38th place to lst.

He launched a one man attack against 39 other players to conqueor top spot with 89 points. By comparision a week prior he managed a mere 51 points. He started his ten games very slowly collecting only 5 points playing with Elizabeth. After they broke up he went on a streak scoring 27 points playing with Shirley Robinson for 14 points than added 13 more as Brian Tremblay’s partner. His other double digit scores where compiled toiling with Jan ‘Hun” Lynch 13,Tremblay again with 15 and David Pye with 10 more points. On the night he had four lone hands and now has compiled a sparking 67.61% week total point percentage.

After game one, Elizabeth got the monkey off her back as well placing 5th overall just 10 points back of her hubby. ‘Lizzie’ posted three lone hands. Other ‘top ten finishers’ where Brian Tremblay second with 85 points, steady Gloria Logan was 3rd with 81 points followed by David Stoliker with 80 points. Birthday gal Cathy Kehoe and Margaret McFayden shared sixth tied with 76 points,Frances Hirst continues to improve scoring 75 points for a 8th place showing, Michael Logan had a 74 and petit Shirley Robinson rounded out select group with 71.

LONE HAND’S RACE REMAINS TIGHT

Seems the Lone Hands race is going right to the wire with a photo finish. With four weeks remaining Jim Duval has retained his first place grip with 58 accumulated lone hands. He scored a pair on Mar 15th however the year long leader Bob ‘Dirt’ Burtinsky who is endearing a late season slide rebound somewhat posting 3 and now is just two back of Duval. Jim’s buddy David Debosky won’t go away either, trailing his lone time friend by three. Defending two time champ Ron ‘Batman’ Hele sitting on the sidelines recovering from a triple by-pass is a distance with 45. Hele’s return to action is still a long way away despite progress in the past week. The other top ten performers remain only as pretenders and not contenders.

PERCENTAGE LEADERSHIP WIDE OPEN

Will it be David Conway or Gloria Logan who win the prestigious yearly percentage award? This award marks the signal of a true champion. To qualify a player must maintain a high weekly standard of points. Further each competitor must appear in 75% of the game played during the 2009-2010 season. George Hagerty is the defending title holder. With 4 weeks remaining an individual to qualify must have played a minimum of 23 games of the 30 game schedule. This longevity permits players to have winter vacations, illness etc and eliminates any hot or cold streaks.

At present it’s a dog fight between Mr. “C” at 70.21% vs Gloria Logan at 70.04%. Other possible winners could come from David Debosky, James Brooks, James Duval, Kenny Graves, Jan ‘HuN’ Lynch, Bob Blair, Mike Logan or Pat Brooks.

‘GLO’ TOPS THE TOTAL POINT LEADER BOARD

Everyone’s favourite Gloria Logan has taken over first in the total point YTD Leader board scoring 81 points giving he a year total of 1,541 points. Jim Duval last week’s pace setter slipped into second with 1,513 after he dropped 19 points from the previous week. Pat ‘Baba’ Passfield another ‘hot and cold’ streaker performer is the other 1,500 point plus player with 1508 just 33 points back. Jim Brooks and Bob ‘Dirt’ Burtinsky rest in the 1,400 point area.

MISTER ‘C’ THE 50/50 WINNER

Affectingly know as Mr. ‘C’ David Conway is richer pocketing $62.50 in capturing the popular 50/50 draw. As a result the Optimist Fund Raiser has produced $1,478.50 in Opti-payouts. Cost for draw tickets are $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00 and may be obtained from our hostess Margaret Ross at the start of the evening. The draw is made at intermission after five games and Johnny’s delicious lunch. Consolidation prizes where won by Sandy Crosbie, Shirley Robinson, David Pye, James Duval, Bob ‘Dirt’ Burtinsky, Ted Kapuncunski, Pat ‘Baba’ Passfield and Kenny Graves. YTD total for all prizes now stands at $5,234.50 for the ‘09-’10 Euchre campaign

SEASON ENDS APR. 19 WITH APPRECIATION DINNER

The majority rules.At a secret ballot taken the 2009-2010 Optimist Monday Nite Euchre will end on Mon. April 19th with the annual championship awards and appreciation dinner. It’s was a narrow vote 65% voted to end the year after 30 weeks while 35% requested the season to be extended into May. Actually the competition will on April 12th permitting time to calculate the stats That means four Monday’s remain to play.Dates are Mar 22 & 29 and in April on the 4th 12. Individual awards will be presented on April 19th to wrap up another successful fundraising year in aid of supporting the Optimist Club mandate of’Serving the Youth and Community of Oshawa’

Plans call for a steak dinner with the trimmings on April 19th. These year we’ve had another banner year and our appreciation awards and dinner is the Optimist way of saying a special Thank-You for supporting our Euchre. The 2010-2011 campaign our 5th season will commence on Sept. 15th. To-date this year 92 players have played Optimist Euchre with a hard core of 48 players who have played 8 games or more this season.

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