Bridge - Mitchell Open Board-a-Match Teams - NYTimes.com SAN FRANCISCO - Several events finished here on Monday evening. The Mitchell Open Board-a-Match Teams was won by Michael Becker and Aubrey Strul of Boca Raton, Fla.; Steve Garner of Chicago; Howard Weinstein of Omaha; and Walid Elahmady and Tarek Sadek from Egypt. They finished one-and-one-third boards ahead of Ralph Katz of Burr Ridge, Ill.; Nick Nickell of New York City; Eric Rodwell of Clearwater Beach, Fla.; Bobby Levin of Henderson, Nev.; and Steve Weinstein of Andes, N.Y. The Marsha May Sternberg Women's Board-a-Match Teams was captured by Sylvia Moss of Boca Raton; Joann Glasson of Pennington, N.J.; Cecilia Rimstedt from Sweden; and Meike Wortel, Laura Dekkers and Marion Michielsen from the Netherlands. One-and-a-half boards back in second were Geeske Joel of Palo Alto; Tobi Sokolow of Austin; Jill Meyers of Santa Monica, Calif.; Janice Seamon-Molson of Hollywood, Fla.; and Bénédicte Cronier and Sylvie Willard from France. The Super Senior Pairs, for players 70 and older, was won by Ed Lazarus of Baltimore for the third time with a third different partner, Mark Laken of Glyndon, Md. They were almost a board clear of Loretta Bromberg of Bel Tiburon, Calif., and Don Friedman of San Francisco. In the Mitchell Open Board-a-Match, Garner gained one point for his team in the diagramed deal from the final session. Both Souths were in four hearts. At each table West led a club, East won with his ace and returned a club. West took his king, cashed the diamond ace and played another diamond, dummy's jack being covered by East's queen. After ruffing, the other South led a heart to dummy's queen and played a heart back to his ace. When West discarded, declarer could not recover. Garner realized that he could pick up four hearts to the jack in the East hand as long as he reduced his trump length. He first cashed his heart ace, then played a heart to dummy's queen. If everyone had followed suit, Garner would have led a spade to his ace, drawn the missing trump and claimed. But when West discarded, declarer played the diamond king from the dummy, East and South both pitching spades. Now declarer carefully ruffed a diamond, cashed his high club, led a spade to dummy's king and, with three cards left, called for the winning diamond ten. East conceded. If East ruffed, South would have overruffed, cashed his last trump and claimed the spade ace for Trick 13. If East discarded, declarer would have thrown his spade ace. Then a spade lead from the dummy would have caught East's trumps in a coup, his jack-eight being under South's king-ten.