American High softball player Ashley Alfonso got her first start last month as a freshmen, showing her coach and teammates why they made the right choice when they called her up from the junior varsity team. She pitched several solid innings and led the varsity team to a victory over Hialeah Miami Lakes. Ashley is the latest player from the Miami Lakes Optimist Club softball program who is also playing well in high school. She has...

  Starting five young freshmen in last year’s postseason, Monsignor Pace’s baseball team lost a disappointing district semifinal game against Florida Christian in extra innings. Needing two more outs to win, the Spartans allowed Florida Christian to tie the game and send it into overtime and pull off the victory. This postseason might be a little tougher for Pace with a lot of young players. At 14-8, the Spartans are the No....

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for the 2015 basketball season, from 9:30 to noon, on consecutive Saturdays April 18 and 25, at Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North. Late registration and tryouts will be held on Saturday, May 2. Boys and girls players from ages 7 to 18 must bring a copy of their birth certificates and be fitted for their uniforms. The registration fee is $150 per player. The...

On March 18, students in the Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) Junior State of America (JSA) chapter participated in the national #FightApathy campaign. “It was a wonderful experience to see people our age interested in real world issues that affect us,” said student Marissa Echeverria, the vice president-elect for MLEC’s JSA chapter. Fight Apathy is a national campaign which ran from March 16 to 28. Schools across the...

  Daylin Garcia, a volunteer and member of the Bob Graham Education Center PTSA, was recently honored during a special luncheon at Jungle Island by Miami-Dade Public Schools for being an outstanding volunteer. She received the award from Superintendent Alberto Carvalho. “Daylin goes way beyond the call of duty to ascertain that school volunteers are lined up for events, helps out in the office and even maintains the Facebook...