Ace of Clubs Race — The best of 2014
This listing includes all of the players in Unit 154 who have placed in the top ten in their category for garnering the most points in games played only at the club level in 2014. Following the point total and written in
green are their placement in the top 25 in District 8. And of special note, there are nine of our players who
also placed in all of ACBL in the top 100 in their category. They are Gale Osgerby #20 Shirley Koch #48, John
Teshima #72, Charlie Abernethy #32, Yuan Hsu #39, Anna Urick #78, Don Valiska #53, Carol Osgerby #28, and
Joe Chin #92. Congratulations to all 47 players named here who represent our unit well!
0 - 5 mp
1 Mary Kocevar — 23.86 #7
4 Vicki Windmiller — 15.99 #21
5 Lee Chance — 13.39
5 - 20 mp
1 Lenny Yarsh — 28.21 #10
4 Jim Lively —17.79
20 - 50 mp
2 Daryl Fraley — 40.04 #7
7 Beth Rader — 24.22 #24
9 Elnora Washington — 19.54
10 Delphine Slater — 18.99
50 - 100 mp
3 Wayne Hiser — 37.65 #18
6 Carol Miller — 32.10
7 Donna Beach — 29.68
9 Alta Allen — 24.12
10 Sharon Snyder — 22.62
100 - 200 mp
500 - 1000 mp
3 Jim Fill — 39.00
1 Wayne Carpenter — 128.09 #4
5 Alan Filler — 37.57
3 Trudy McKamey — 91.80 #10
6 Dee Marshall — 34.67
5 Laverne Niksch — 88.00 #12
7 Lois Edelstein — 32.86
6 Indra Gupta — 86.38 #16
8 Arlyne Filler — 32.00
7 Peggy Kiernan — 83.51 #17
10 Pat Mikuta — 69.96
200 - 300 mp
1000 - 2500 mp
1 Gale Osgerby — 115.78 #1
2 Shirley Koch — 99.49 #4
1 Don Valiska — 201.54 #1
3 John Teshima — 89.45 #5
3 Lou Nimnicht — 173.04 #4
4 Alan Geller — 79.03 #7
4 Dave Bigler — 166.99 #5
7 Carolyn Potasnik — 60.58 #15
5 Pat Valiska — 150.46 #8
9 Anna Urosevich — 53.38
6 Norm Szewczyk — 148.03 #9
8 Jim Angell — 117.30 #19
300 - 500 mp
1 Charlotte Abernethy — 117.37 #1 9 Connie Stevens — 109.31 #25
10 Chuck Schultz — 107.07
2 Yuan Hsu — 113.86 #2
2500 - 5000 mp
4 Anna Urick — 101.08 #4
7 Alan Yngve — 50.81 #25
1 Carol Osgerby — 252.00 #1
8 Barbara Graegin — 143.12 #14
Steve Watson also placed in
5000 - 7500 mp
the district — #21 with a
total of 119.18 masterpoints. 2 Joe Chin — 198.47 #3
Snowflake
Silver Sectional
January 4-6 Crystal Lake
Only 2 of our players earned points at
Crystal Lake — Elnora Washington
and Carol Miller — 2.55. Congrats!
District 11
and Unit 154
STaC Week
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December 26
— January 1
The only clubs in our area that ran this STaC
game were Portage and Michigan City.
Therefore, scores weren’t as high as usual.
The top five scorers —
Laverne Niksch — 4.84
Dave Bigler — 4.76
Joe Chin — 4.76
Wayne Carpenter — 3.65
Chuck Schultz — 2.42
The coldest temperature ever recorded was -128 in Antarctica in
1983 . . . . and we complain about the cold weather here!
The tallest snowman ever built was in Bethel, Maine in 2008 and
measured 122 feet and 1 inch!
The world record for the largest snowfall in one day was set in the
U.S. when Georgetown received 63 inches of snow . . . . That’s over
five feet!
Average snowflakes fall at 3.1 mph.
Ten inches of snow melts down to only one inch of water.
The largest snowflake recorded was 15 inches wide & 8 inches thick.
The record for the most snow angels made at one time was set in
Canada in 2004. Several schools joined to create 15,851 snow angels!
The biggest hailstone recorded fell in 2010 and was the size of a ball
weighing almost 2 pounds!
Chionophobia is a fear of snow. Interesting Winter Facts