The following directors were re-elected to our unit board, Tania Moalem, Will Watson, Mich Ravera, and Ray Yuenger. Newly elected are John Prior and Erin Gove. Next month I’ll be able to tell you who holds which office.

June was a busy month for local sectionals. Michael Fleisher’s Swiss team had a stratification top in the San Francisco sectional. At the East Bay sectional, Jennifer Gu had a strat top in a pairs event, while Li-Chung Chen had two.

At the Hollister sectional, Rekha Nirula & Shirley Foreman had a strat top, while Bill Langlois had two. T-C Yang’s Swiss team took first overall, with Chester Jahns’ and Alex Tampilang’s teams first in their respective strats. T-C’s team finished with 101 victory points out of 120 total, in an event lasting 6 rounds of 9 boards each. I, for one, would prefer meeting more opponents over fewer boards in a Swiss match.

The Palo Alto sectional just concluded. I thought their temporary site at the San Jose Hyatt was quite nice once one figured out to park in the back. For those of you who didn’t attend, there were a variety of events over 5 days. Strat and section tops in pairs games went to Judy Fisher & Bonnie Beardsley, John Prior & Raja Smadi, Joel Koransky & Bruce Scott, Stacie Bowman, Mervin & Shirley Falk, Bill Reister & Ted Richmond, Ray & Maxine Lubow, John & Mischel Postas, T-C Yang, Joseph Dodson, Avi Mukerjee & Yi-Qun Jin, Ken Rosenfeld, Panette Talia (71.62%!), Missy Coy & Bill Yetter, Janet Adamiak, Stu Goodgold & Ray Yuenger, Shih-Wei Lu, Zag Kadah & Kamen Nedeltchev, Eileen Edwards, Mich Ravera & Norma Epler, Art & Colette Quaife, Shirley Anderson, Dolores Halden & Phyllis Gaffney, Bruce Luttrell (69.23%), Chee Tung, Karen Kulander and Peggy Reeser.

On winning knockout teams were Rose Meltzer; Hiram Shen, Joseph Chui, Leon Lee & Jerry Lundquist; Richard O’Brien & Joseph Dodson; and Judy Travis. First in their Swiss strats were John Hoffman & Leila Sink and Edward Lin & Jack Uppal.

Congratulations to new Junior Master Richard Markell and Bronze Life Master Judith Clark.

Here’s a play of the hand story I found amusing. My partner and I had a spirited auction starting with a strong and artificial 1♣. Opponents competed to 4♥, and we though we were sacrificing in 4♠, which declarer’s RHO firmly doubled. Declarer’s first trump lead from the board was the 4, RHO contributed the 3, declarer played the 2, and LHO showed out! How often have you won the first trump trick with the 4? Needless to say, the KJ74 of trumps only took one trick and the contract made.

On Saturday, August 20 at 7 p.m. is a stratified open pairs unit game in honor of long-time unit member Don Nemiro becoming a Platinum Life Master.

There may be something else I should be including, but my mind is mush after 7 straight days of bridge. Let me know what I overlooked at (408-379-7717) or rayyuenger@comcast.net.