Boys v Girls

We played the Irish Ladies at the Spring Fours earlier this year and they said they would be interested in some online matches, especially as warm ups for the European Open Championships in Sanremo later this month.

So last night they were playing the Scots "Old and Young" - Harry and Finlay who played in the Senior Camrose last year, and Alex and Andrew who are our top junior pair.

The ladies had the better of the first half, winning 28-12 IMPs. It would have been better for them if Finlay had not found the excellent switch at trick 2 (hand rotated):

Finlay led the ♣A and saw ♣6 from Harry. I don't know what this showed, but Finlay found the killing spade switch to win 12 IMPs.

In the second half the men made a comeback and the aggregate final score was Scotland 47:30 Ireland. Two game swings were the major difference but I thought all four pairs did well on a number of difficult hands.

For example:

After South opens 1♠ or 2♠ I know that I would be in game with these hands, but both pairs played in simple heart partscores. With hearts 5-1, clubs offside and the spades 7-1, they could not even make eight tricks.

Next week the Irish will be looking for revenge as they take on Scotland's Lady Milne winning team.