Leading their discipline in the XL Wheelchair Sports

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Jalisco's Table Tennis team, won five more medals in individual competitions in the XL Wheelchair Sports, which take place in the multi-purpose Sports dome of Revolución, with which they remain at the top of the medal board in this sport.
The five medals were won in the men's category, Jesús Sánchez García won the first gold medal for Jalisco in the TT 3 category by beating Eduardo Sánchez of Puebla, who got silver.
The bronze went to Carlos Rincón Monroy, from the State of Mexico and Francisco Alam González Hernández, from Hidalgo.
In the TT 4 category, Jalisco scored 1-2, when Jesús Salgueiro Cepeda got the gold medal, defeating in the final Santiago Gaytán Gaytán, the bronzes went to Efrén Guerra Sánchez (Nuevo León) and to Oscar Islas Viana (Quintana Roo).
The other two medals were won in the category TT 6-7 when Manuel Lara got silver losing in the final to Mario Pazarán from the IMSS, who took gold. The bronzes were for Omar Aparicio from Jalisco and José María Lozano from the IMSS.
There are five athletes who have ensured their place in the Mexican national team that will participate in the Open Tournament to be held in Belgium as well as in the Para-panamerican to be held in Costa Rica in early December. They are Martha Alicia Verdín Cedeño and Edith Sigala López de Jalisco, María Paredes Albor from the state of Mexico, Miguel Ariff Vázquez from Quintana Roo and René Domínguez Carlos from Baja California.
On the second day of activities for the athletic National Games on Wheelchair, Raul Torres from Jalisco won his second medal of the event by winning silver in the T53 category in the 200 meter meet with 30.18 seconds.
Torres said that this result makes him very satisfied: "I am very proud, one more medal in my country, in my state, now to continue my training with my coach for more success".
The first place of this meet was for the Oaxacan Jaime Ramírez, with a time of 28.88 seconds, while the bronze went to Jairo Montoya from Hidalgo with 30.48.
María de los Ángeles Hernández from Jalisco finished third in her 400m race in the T53-54 category with a time of 1:14.15, but her medal did not count in the medal board for not achieving the minimum time required according to the rules, when the number of competitors in the race is less than four.
The gold in this trial was for Evelyn Enciso from Queretaro with a time of 1:10.03, and the silver for the Baja Californian Yasmith Bataz with 1:13.97.
In the 200m competition of the T54 category there was the participation of José Giovanni Grajales and Daniel Ramírez from Jalisco, who finished in positions 4 and 6 with a time of 29.57 and 33.72 seconds, respectively.
Meanwhile the women's basketball team of Jalisco secured their presence in the final, having won their third event in a row.
This time the Jaliscans defeated Mexico City by 45-31, for which they are in their way to get their fifth national title in a row, should they win Saturday's meet, against the rival team to be defined tomorrow.
The men's team of Jalisco fell 29-59 to Mexico City, a result which is good enough to dispute the third place medal tomorrow against Oaxaca.

[readon1 url="http://www.lajornadajalisco.com.mx/2013/10/04/destaca-la-seleccion-jalisco-de-ping-pong/"]Source: La Jornada Jalisco Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]