Cartera tops Araw PARA Games

Asian PARA Games veteran Billy Smith Cartera shone in the Wheelchair Table Tennis event of the 2015 Araw ng Dabaw PARA Games held Monday at the Rizal Park in Davao City.
Cartera scored a total of 8 points to pocket the gold. Jun Martinez settled for the silver with 6 points while Domingo Lequin Jr. took the bronze with a better quotient over Anecito Plaza.
In the Table Tennis Standing/Crutches, Jobert Lumanta beat Philspada Davao president James Infiesto in the finals for the gold medal. Armando Amancio finished with 4 points for the bronze medal.
Lumanta also outclassed Infiesto for the gold in the Orthopedic Chess with 5.0 points. Infiesto got 4.0 points to earn the silver followed by Edgardo Villasica (3.0) who edged out Chester Arriesgado in a tiebreak.
In the chess for visually impaired, Elmar Olivar stacked 4.0 points to pocket the gold medal. Aldrin Pana (3.0) got the silver with a better quotient over two others Danilo Partosa and Julius Ortega. Partosa, however, settled for the bronze.
In the goal ball, Team Quirino tallied 21 points to cop the gold. Quirino was played by Ebenizar Celerado, Billy Dojillo, Arso Decenilla, Nolivin Serra, Ebrahim Silang and Arnel Magbanua.
Ubma played by Jonathan Espanol, Jose Sabordo, Levi Operiano, Jubert Bernal and Cris Alfante scored 18 points for the silver medal.
Bronze went to Cagayan composed of Gijong Oniego, Domingo Sorila and Rufo Gonzaga followed by Lamdag played by John Nator, Jill Soriano and Jun Gonzales.
In the exciting basketball on wheelchair, Team Dayap posted two straights wins with no loss to win the gold over Adap (1-1 win-loss) and winless Agdao.
Dayap beat Adap, 36-27 and crushed Agdao, 36-17 while Adap downed Agdao, 44-27.
Team B ruled the volleyball for hearing impaired over teams A and C.