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April 4, 2004

Owens wins Texas Wesleyan Table Tennis Tournament

FORT WORTH, Texas

Texas Wesleyan sophomore Eric  Owens took home first place at the 2004 Texas Wesleyan Table Tennis Tournament hosted by the Texas Wesleyan Table Tennis Team, April 24th. The tournament featured 55 entries from the southwest region divided into five different divisions.

Owens, a Houston, Texas native, defeated Yugoslavian native, Sasa Drinic, 11-6, 11-4, 11-4, 8-11, 3-11, 11-7 in the championship match of the "A" Division. 


Eric Owens

Drinic owns a higher national ranking than Owens, but Owens bested him in this one. In the third place match of the "A" Division, Wesleyan team member, Biljana Golic was defeated by San Antonio, Texas native, Clark Yeh, 13-11, 9-11, 11-7, 11-6, 5-11, 11-5.  Yeh also defeated Wesleyan team member Courtney Roberts in group play. Below is a list of all of the winners:

A-division
1st Eric Owens from Houston, Texas
2nd Sasa Drinic from Chicago, Ill.
3rd Clark Yeh from San Antonio, Texas
4th Biljana Golic, Texas Wesleyan

B-division
1st Rick Mueller from Austin Texas in 3 way tie for first
2nd Ezzat Hamid from Tulsa Okla.
 
C-division
1st Hanying Zhang from Dallas, Texas
2nd Paul Olivier from Wichita, Kan.
 
D-Division
1st Harry Mc Keever, Dallas, Texas
2nd Larry Sangren, Dallas, Texas
 
E-Division
1st Ken Sangren, Dallas, Texas
2nd Jeff Faville, Portland, Ore.


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