Players miss out by narrowest of margins on Saturday in Strasbourg at European transnational championships
The grand master school of Bridge is running an open competition in the main hall of Taney parish centre, Taney Road, Dublin 14, on Wednesday evening starting at 7.00pm. File photograph: Getty ImagesAoife MacHale, Peter Goodman, Hilary Dowling-Long and Peter Stewart missed out on the knock-out stages of the mixed teams tournament at the European transnational championships which started in Strasbourg on Saturday by the narrowest of margins.
With 32 teams advancing from the qualifying rounds, they finished 33rd, an agonising .18 of a point short. The Irish quartet had mixed fortune and recorded big wins against strong English, French, Polish and German sides including teams that finished in fourth and fifth places, but they lacked consistency and suffered big losses too, winning five and losing five of the matches played.
MacHale and Goodman, Dowling-Long and Stewart along with Lucy and John Phelan and Antoinette and Tos McGee carry Irish hopes in the mixed pairs championship. MacHale and Goodman have started well and were best of the Irish in yesterday’s early stages.
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