Bridge in the Barossa

BRIDGE BAROSSA CONGRESS – SATURDAY/SUNDAY 7/8 JULY 2018

This year was the biggest and grandest Bridge event ever held in the Barossa. Forty pairs played for honour and glory on Saturday in the eleventh annual Bridge Barossa Congress.

In the afternoon final round first were the sisters from Adelaide Joanne Bakas and Tassi Georgiadis. They were followed by Andrew Hill and David Shilling, while third were Trevor Darling and Rita Jones from Wallaroo.

The B section was won by Angela Norris (the South Australian Bridge Federation Secretary) and Jeff Fallon, second Helen Kite and Merilyn Paris also from Adelaide. Max Jahn and Ann Matthews were clear winners in the C section.

Sunday was a cracking teams event (four players per team) with 24 tables or almost 100 players participating, and the winning team was John Zollo, Jarrad Dunbar (ex Whyalla), Justin Williams and Mike Doecke. Second were Lori Smith, Therese Demarco, Mark Fairlamb and Tim O’Loughlin, while Alex Bremner, Milton Hart, Peter Teubner and Neil Welch were third. These latter two teams shone against strong opposition from two much favoured teams of state players. A fine effort by our local players Halena Frick and Louisa Eggleton with Heather Young and Kevin Jones to win “best country” team.

 he event was held in the Tanunda Football Clubrooms and was very well directed by David Anderson. Catering, including sumptuous luncheons, were organised by Trish Page and Jill Allanson with assistance from many club members. Generous sponsors on the day were The Barossa CO–OP and Seppeltsfield Winery. All in all a special bridge weekend in the Barossa with compliments all round for the event.

Mike Doecke, Justin Williams, Jarrad Dunbar and John Zollo with club president Jill Allanson.

One of our local teams, Halena Frick, Louisa Eggleton, Heather Young and Kevin Jones, did very well in the teams event on Sunday, coming 10th overall out of 24 teams. This is an exceptional result considering that competitors were state and national level players, and that Louisa and Halena have only been playing for two and a half years.