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     LEXINGTON SCRABBLE PLAYERS CLUB #108 NEWS FOR DECEMBER 4, 2008

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------
     1 Rod MacNeil           - 1790      16     3        439
       Steven Saul           - 1790      25     7        444
     3 Seth Lipkin             1783      12     6        396
     4 Alyssa Faria          + 1776      21     6        417
     5 Richard Buck          - 1767      24    12        404
     6 Jamie Ryan              1763      16     9        434
     7 Mark Fidler           - 1757      24    10        398
       Brad Whitmarsh        + 1757       7     1        456
     9 Bruce Adams           = 1745      32    14        413
    10 Joel Horn             - 1744      48    18        427

       PLAYER                 RATING    WINS LOSSES    AVERAGE   RANK
       ------                 ------    ---- ------    -------   ----
    Becker, Bob                1696       6     4        391      19
    Bergmann, Jake             1704/A     8     3        418 
    Cheras, John             - 1684       5     8        342      21
    Cole, Judy               - 1640      31    49        359      25
    Coveney, Pamela            1562/A     2    12        331 
    Day, Catherine             1560       2    18        311      33
    Dubach, Joev               1706/A     1     1        354 
    Durdan, Carl             + 1733      11     8        418      13
    Finn, Marshall           + 1631       4     9        358      28
    Giovinazzo, Linda        - 1615       6    27        347      29
    Greenwood, Ben             1692/A     1     1        384 
    Guest, Cornelia            1700/8     5     3        371 
    Harrison, Ben              1741      33    20        424      12
    Heinrich, Sam              1510/A     0     2        343 
    Horn, Judy               - 1699      36    32        399      17
    Katz, Larry              + 1682      25    22        381      22
    Klopper, Aron            + 1439       0     2        364      35
    Kt., Trx.                + 1589      24    59        337      31
    Lambert, Rebecca         ? 1699/4     2     2        341 
    Le, Cecilia                1785/A     3     1        416 
    Lutts, Tim                 1640       2     5        360      25
    Mead, Jere                 1778/A     2     0        491 
    Miller, Ellen              1690      14    12        391      20
    Milton, Dan                1781/5     2     3        394 
    Milton, Jared              1804/5     3     2        419 
    O'Laughlin, John           1796/A     3     0        490 
    Patterson, Elaine          1714      10     8        388      14
    Pechvijitra, Pechy         UNR        0     3        289 
    Pistol, Howard             1658/5     2     3        365 
    Revkin, Barbara          - 1698       4     5        351      18
    Richmond, Scott          - 1578       6    36        337      32
    Rosenthal, Rob           + 1705      15    18        358      16
    Siegel, Hilda              1537       4    18        316      34
    Sinacola, Chris          - 1711      10     4        419      15
    Spiller, Diana           + 1674       4     1        400      23
    Stumpf, Thomas             1677/A     9     6        393 
    Wilstein, Rob              1650       9     6        387      24
    Wolfberg, Mike             1743      19    12        401      11
    Wood, Betsey             + 1634      13    28        349      27
    Yorra, Wayne             + 1594       9    16        347      30

Players in the top ten are listed only at the top of this sheet,
since there is not enough room to also include them in the full list.

                        (over for the news)

There were 25 players in attendance when we last met on November 20, 2008.

We welcome Rebecca Lambert to our club for her first visit last week. She is
an established NSA player with a rating hovering around 1600, who recently
moved to the Boston area. She has played in 39 tourneys since May, 2007.

Congratulations to Wayne for having the high-above-average game last
week, in which he scored 490, 42.8% above his average. Wayne also had the
high-above-average with a score of 490 when he lost to Michael Cresta's 830
on October 12, 2006. Michael had not played enough games that season to be
eligible for that accolade, and that was the only time a losing score was
the highest score above average.

High scores: Carl 572, Chris S. 560, Bruce 511,
             Marshall 509, Brad W. 506, Judy H. 500

High losing scores: Chris S. 404 to Betsey 458, Judy H. 402 to Brad W. 506

High rating increases: Rob R. +42, Betsey +25

These are the words challenged or considered last week:

NUG, BISE, GRAT, MIGS, WYES, DUITS, FAUVA, GLITS, JUGGS, NICAD, PAWNY,
RENIG, THION, VENTE, VOXES, WHIMP, WILTY, AMINOE, BEIGER, CHIAOS, GLAZER,
REWEAR, WHORLS, CORGEES, DAIRYER, ENDARER, HEMOTIN, KALENDS, LECTORS,
PLAYPAL, SAURIES, SELFING, SNUFFER, SOILERS, UNLEASE, BEATDOWN, COCTAILS,
GORINESS, INRUSHED, MAGESTIC, OVERPAST, PAPILLAS, TRAINORS, VARNISHY
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
(GNU GUN), BISE, GRAT, MIGS, WYES (YEWS), DUITS, (GILTS), NICAD (CANID
CNIDA+), RENIG (REIGN), (EVENT), (ANOMIE), GLAZER, REWEAR+ (WEARER),
WHORLS, KALENDS, LECTORS (COLTERS CORSLET COSTREL), (PAPALLY), SAURIES,
SELFING, SNUFFER, (LORISES RISSOLE), (DOWNBEAT), GORINESS, OVERPAST,
VARNISHY (HRYVNIAS+)


Although the Monday night Boston Scrabble Club has been dormant for November,
it is resuming at a temporary location in Brighton starting 1-Dec-08.
See http://wolfberg.net/scrabble/boston for details.

There was a recent low-scoring game at the Monday night Exeter, NH club
in which Joe Waldbaum defeated Barbara Lowrey 171-128. Indeed, they did
not total over 300 - the game stopped when there were six consecutive
scores of zero.

The 2008 SAT (Saturday After Thanksgiving) Tourney is now represented on
http://cross-tables.com - if you want to play, sign up immediately!
The mailing deadline is listed on the flyer as November 21.

                        RULES FOR WEEKLY RANKINGS
                        -------------------------
Each new player is given an estimated rating which will be recalculated after
that person has played ten games.  A "UNR" is listed as a new player's rating
until at least four games are played.  Then a provisional rating is shown
(followed by a slash and the number of games). New players are not ranked
until they have played ten games.  The "/A" after a player's rating indicates
that player has been absent for at least 4 club sessions and is thus not
ranked.  A player who has been absent for at least 10 sessions is not listed.
A player who has played fewer than 5 total games is no longer listed after
missing 3 sessions. When a game is a tie, each player is credited with a win.

Our club web site: http://LSC.wolfberg.net or via http://ScrabbleClub.com

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