RAMS WIN FOUR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
April 14, 2008

ROCHESTER, MN:  The Texas Wesleyan University Table Tennis dynasty continued to turn out national titles this weekend.  The Rams took four out of seven titles at the 2008 College Table Tennis National Championships despite not having the aid of their top player.

Mark Hazinski, who won national titles in the co-ed team event, men’s singles, men’s doubles, and mixed doubles as a freshman last year, has been focusing on Olympic trials and was unavailable to the Rams in this year’s tournament.

The Rams still collected their fifth consecutive title in the co-ed team event while the women’s team won its second consecutive title.

Ines Perhoc and Jasna Reed were dominant in the tournament.  After Perhoc got past teammate Sina Fischer in the semifinals, she faced off with her teammate and coach in the final for the second straight year.  This time Perhoc got the better of Reed to win her first singles national championship.

Perhoc and Reed also teamed up to win the women’s doubles title.  The duo defeated Judy Hugh of Rutgers and Barbara Wei from Penn.

The Rams were hardly a slouch in the other events as well.  In men’s singles, Carlos Chui, Dinko Kranjac, and Ludovic Gombos all reached the quarterfinals.  In men’s doubles Gombos and Chui fell in the final to Princeton’s Adam Hugh and Queen’s University’s Tahl Leibovitz.  In mixed doubles, the combonations of Perhoc and Gombos as well as Reed and Chui reached the semifinals before bowing out.