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The club hosted the Summer Allegro on 8th May.  Twenty players competed with Bill Falconer emerging the winner with a score of 4½/5.

Results:

 Bill Falconer    (Dragons)            4½

Siegrun Macgilchrist (Ayr), Mark Sanderson (Edinburgh), John Smith (Grangemouth)     4

Lindsay McGregor (Edinburgh)       3½

The prize for the best score by a player aged over 90 was won by Johnny Marr.

The draw for the second round of the Club Championship was made at the Club on 20th April by Adam and Leora Wadler.  The ties, to be completed by 16th May, are:

Aitchison           v.      Saxton

Archibald           v.      Girvan

Bhopal               v.       Ridge

Marr                    v.       Cranston

Perez Souto      v.       Platts

Sanderson        v.       Horne

Whittaker           v.       Yannoulis

Zamvar              v.        Burns

Matches played at Roslin, 14th April:

Round 11

Edinburgh A      2 ½  – 1 ½      Lasswade

Edinburgh B        2   –    2         Gorgie Dalry

Final positions:

1. Edinburgh A            32 ½    (win on tie-break of  individual result v. Badgers Brook)

2. Badgers Brook       32 ½

3. Lasswade                29

Edinburgh B finished eighth (out of 12 teams) with 20 points.

Top Scorers

Ben He and Sam Gregory both finished with 9/11 for Edinburgh A, and Fergus Skillen 7 ½/11.

For Edinburgh B, Shivan Murdochy scored 4/5, David Archibald 4 ½/6 and Calum McGillivray 6 ½/9

There are 21 entries for the 2010/11 Club Championship.

The draw for Round 1 was made at the Club on 31st March with Johnny Marr drawing the first named player and Calum McGillivray the second.

The ties, to be completed by 25th April, are:

Archibald            v.       Anderson

McGillivray          v.       Horne

Sanderson         v.       Wilson

Saxton                 v.       Wadler, L

Wadler, A            v.       Aitchison

The remaining 11 players (Bhopal, Burns, Cranston, Girvan, Marr, Perez Souto, Platts, Ridge, Whittaker, Yannoulis, Zamvar) have a bye to Round 2.