Tauranga bridge players Murray Wood and Rochelle Pelkman, playing alongside Waikato players Herman Yuan and Yuzhong Chen were second in the North Island teams bridge event held in Tauranga over the weekend.

They won seven out their eight matches to accumulate 104.19 victory points in the events.

They finished 16.97 points behind the Auckland-based Cornell team comprising Michael Cornell, GeO Tislevoll, Michael Ware and Ashley Bach which also won seven matches.

Thirty-four teams consisting of players from throughout New Zealand and Australia competed in the event.