On February 22-24, "Team Fort Worth" traveled to Houston to compete in the indoor team championship event sponsored by the USPTA. This event is played using a unique format where 8 courts, 2 from each level, play 16 games each and teams get one point for each game they win. The team score is accumulated from the winning games of all 8 courts for a maximum of 128 per match. Team Fort Worth was comprised of players from the teams winning the fall league at the 3.0, 3.5, 4.0 and 4.5 levels representing Ridglea, RTC Love-15, UTA Hammers and RTC, respectively. Interestingly, the 4.5 team from RTC was dessimated by the new enforcement of an old, and unknown, rule that USPTA members are not allowed to compete in this event. Four of the league winning 4.5 team are USPTA members and thus ineligible. To complicate matters, two additional players from that team planning to travel to Houston were unable due to work or injury. Therefore, the 4.5 court vacancies were filled by the league coordinator and 4.0 players playing up.

Fort Worth went undefeated in flight play. Day One found Fort Worth playing at Chancellor's Racquet Club where they defeated teams from Central Texas (85-43), Southeast Texas (75-53) and Lubbock (81-47). While the 4.0 and 4.5 teams held there own, the courts were dominated by the 3.0 and 3.5 players. At the end of day one, Fort Worth had accumulated 241 points and was in the lead over second place Houston (230) by 11 points.

Day Two found Fort Worth playing the second place team from Houston in the first match of the morning at a different facility, Westheimer Indoors. Again, the 4.0 and 4.5 courts held their own and managed to pick up two games on Houston. Following in the pattern of the previous day, the 3.0 and 3.5 courts picked up 12 additional points on their Houston opponents to defeat Houston 71-57 and putting the team in first by 25 total points (312-287).

Fort Worth moved back to Chancellor's Racquet Club but had to wait until 5:45 to play their next and last match of flight play - the last match of the day. In this match the team defeated the opponents from Abilene in the closest match so far 68-60. With a total of 380 points, Team Fort Worth had qualified to play on Sunday in the finals against College Station who won their flight with 355 points.

The stress factor increased on Sunday due to some miscommunication. Fort Worth found themselves in a 0-10 deficit as one 4.5 court had to be defaulted to College Station. The second 4.5 court tied their opponents 8-8 as did the both of the 3.5 courts. With 4 courts reporting, Fort Worth was still down by 10. The 4.0 courts split, winning one 10-6 and losing the other 11-5, placing Fort Worth down by 12 (39-51). Then the dominance of the 3.0 players shined. The first 3.0 team to come off the court, Rex Benson and Ted Samples, blessed Fort Worth with 12 additional points leaving the score differential at 4 (51-55). Unknown to the remaining 3.0 team of Danny Terrell and Steve Bolton, the hopes of Fort Worth were riding on their shoulders as the played on a remote court with no knowledge of the outcome of the other team members. Terrell and Bolton, representing Fort Worth and the Ridglea Gladiators, proved that they truly were gladiators on this day by winning their court 13-3 and putting the team score 6 points over College Station (64-58). While the 4.0 and 4.5 teams held their own through much of the tournament, the team was truly riding on the shoulders of the dominant 3.5 and especially the undefeated 3.0 players.