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District of Columbia Championships

February 21, 1998

The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., hosted an amazing tournament. The church generously provided a beautiful playing site, first class conditions for the players and their parents, large trophies and other awards for all of the students who competed and a free pizza and juice lunch and it did all of this without charging the kids any entry fee! A whopping 255 kids came to play.

Here is a list of the section winners:

Kindergarten-First Grade Co-Champions: Joey Regalbuto and Matthew Farrell
Second Grade: Kevin Hegel
Third Grade: Bret Latter and Anthony Soc
Fourth Grade: David Hogan
Fifth Grade: Eric Ma and Christopher Puhl
Sixth Grade: Chris Gong, Carolyn Offutt and Mary Leigh Nugent
Seventh Grade: Warren Brace
Eighth Grade: Duong Nguyen
Junior Varsity: Andy Samuelson
Varsity: Desmond Joseph
Premier: Johnny Sadoff

Trophies also were given to school teams. Team champions were:
Elementary: Haycock (Falls Church)
Junior High: Deal (Washington, DC)
High School: Covenant Life (Gaithersburg)