at East Midlands Bridge Centre Spondon
Thursday 26th July

Leicestershire absolutely dominated the July round of the Three Counties competition at the East Midlands Bridge Centre Spondon.

Last season Leicestershire won the overall event of three rounds by just 7 IMPs. This year they carried forward from the first round an incredible lead of 400 IMPs! Leicestershire scored +278 IMPs, Nottinghamshire -122 IMPs, Derbyshire -156 IMPs.

Detailed results of Leicestershire teams:

Position	Club	Team	IMPs
Division 1
1	Leicester Bridge Centre	Jeff Ball, Bharat, Andy Mackriell & Peter White	+58
2	Magazine	Larry Coe, Tony Cook, Dennis Davis & John Myles	+26
3	County	Bill Gray, Peter Halford, Tony Odams & Robert Northage	+25
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leics. +109, Notts -47, Derby -62
Division 2
1	Woodborough (Notts)		+69
2	Loughborough Endowed Schools	Steven Barney, Mike Lambert, Jonathan de Souza & Megan Starkings	+45
4	Phoenix	Mike Ayers, Alan Langley, Tom Lindop & Dick Pathan	+1
5	Loughborough University	John & Jill Lloyd, David Nutt & Chris Waddington	-2
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leics. +44, Notts. +5, Derby - 49.
Division 3
1	Loughborough Town	Hugh Cairns, Phyll Norris, Geoff Shaw & Pat Simpson	+51
2	Blaby	John Arnold, Neil & Pat Beasley and Derek Harper	+44
4	Barkby	Anne Blackwell, Pat Emery, John & Audrey Mount	+30
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leics. +125, Derby -45, Notts. -80.

at East Midlands Bridge Centre Spondon
Thursday 23rd August

Leicestershire finished third in the August round of the Three Counties competition. The margins were however small and they carried forward, to the final September round, most of the advantage gained in July.

Over the two rounds

Division 1

County BC lead the division with +48 from Leicester Bridge Centre on +37.
The divisional aggregate totals are:
Leicestershire +77, Nottinghamshire -23, Derbyshire -54.

The cumulative scores to date are; Leicestershire +198 IMPs
Derbyshire -8 IMPs
Nottinghamshire -190 IMPs

Division 2

Overall the Endowed Schools with +74 lie second to Derby A on +81. Aggregate: Leicestershire +13, Derbyshire +11, Nottinghamshire -24.

Division 3

Aggregate: Leicestershire +108, Derbyshire +35, Nottinghamshire -143.

Detailed results of Leicestershire teams:

Position	Club	Team	IMPs
Division 1
2	County Bridge Club	Marjorie Gilbertson, Brian Marlow, Robert Northage and Jackie Walker	+23
7	Leicester Bridge Centre		-21
9	Magazine		-34
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leicestershire +77, Nottinghamshire -23, Derbyshire -54
Division 2
2	Loughborough Endowed Schools	Duncan & Edward Jones, Mike Lambert and Megan Starkings	+29
8	Loughborough University		-26
9	Phoenix		-33
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leicestershire +13, Derbyshire +11, Nottinghamshire -24
Division 3
2	Barkby Bridge Club	Anne Blackwell, Pat Emery, John & Audrey Mount	+36
6	Loughborough Town		-19
7	Blaby Bridge Club		-34
	Divisional aggregate totals	Leicestershire +108, Derbyshire +35, Notts -143

at East Midlands Bridge Centre Spondon
Thursday 20th September

The Leicestershire Club sides enjoyed very mixed fortunes in the final round of the 2001 Three Counties Competition and although, as expected, the county have won the overall event, the cumulative lead over second placed Derbyshire, was cut from 206 to just 69 IMPs.

Division 1

Leicester Bridge Centre (Jeff Ball, David Deane, KM Patel and Ramnik Samani) with +51 on the night, just caught County BC (Marjorie Gilbertson, Brian Marlow, Robert Northage and Tony Odams) +40, sharing second place overall on +88 - just 2 behind the winners. Magazine finished seventh on -76.

The final divisional aggregate totals were:

Leicestershire +100
Derbyshire -11
Nottinghamshire -89

Division 2

Loughborough Endowed Schools (Malcolm Caporn, Jonathan DeSouza, Mike Lambert and Megan Starkings) with +51, took their total to +125, second to the winners on +169. Loughborough University finished sixth on -40, Phoenix seventh on -58.

The final divisional aggregate totals were:

Derbyshire +50
Leicestershire +27
Nottinghamshire -77

Division 3

Barkby (Anne Blackwell, Pat Emery, John & Audrey Mount) advanced to +87 second overall, with Lougborough Town third on +25 third and Blaby sixth with +8.