Dear Alumni,

  The Beida Alumni Association sent three teams
to the Hua Xia Cup Table Tennis Tournament
last Sunday. Although we didn't get into the final
top three, we tried our best and indeed played very
good games!

Here are our team members:
    Beida Team 1
      Yuguo Chen, Wenzhi Li, Qingping Wu;
    Beida Team 2
      Zhenyang Zhong, Xida Li, Yinping Li, James He;
    Beida Team 3
      Chengbin Peng, Xiaoming Tang, Yiming Yang,
      Ruiwu Wen, Ningya Cheng

  There were 16 teams in total; many players are
professionally trained and play on a daily basis.
The most exciting game is the match between
our team 1 and Hua Xia team 1. Before the game,
most people think that Hua Xia will win because
they have several very good players. However,
our team members played seriously and played
hard, plus our cheer/yell leaders did a terrific
job. We won the game by 3:2! This game really
surprised many people as they never expected our
team to play so well! Beida Team 1 beat Hua Xia
team 1 and Zhuanxie team 2, and advanced to top eight
for the second round. Unfortunately they lost to
Team 601 and didn't get into round three. Team 2
and 3 didn't get into the second round.

  We would like to thank all our team members,
and the following people for their support:
  Liang Gan, Zhang Qiong, and Zhang Zhaohui.

  Special thanks go to Yuguo Chen and Liang Gan.
They both drove more than 50 miles to Houston
in the early morning and stayed a full day!

  Our alumni played double and mixed double
during the break. Everybody enjoyed the game
and they had a lot of fun. Also, there are
some photos of the tournament, and they will
be posted to our web site. The site address
is http://www.shsu.edu/~phy_gnl/alumni.html.

  Once again, thank all alumni who supported and
/or participated in this event!  Hope more will
join next time.

Cheers,
Baolong Chai