It was deja vu for Hialeah Miami Lakes High School’s boys’ volleyball team.Last week, the Trojans fell to SLAM in the district championship game after their star player, Abraham Castillo, was forced out of the game with an acute injury. In 2016, HML experienced a similar tale when SLAM defeated the Trojans for the division crown after their star player couldn’t finish the rest of the game due to an injury, conceivably...

Miami Lakes United Soccer Club recently participated in the annual European Soccer Travel Tours in England, where the boys under-9 and 10 team enjoyed a soccer tour with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The group, along with Miami Lakes United Soccer Club president Alvin Murray, who oversaw all aspects of the tour, engaged in training, games and engagements with professional football players from local premier clubs. The training and games...

Colonel Jacquelin Kelly was more than a softball coach at St. Thomas University.She blazed the trail for women seeking the same opportunity as men to compete in sports and be successful in life after college.Kelly died from cancer in 2014, but her name will be forever etched in the annals of St. Thomas University’s athletic program, and school officials gave her the ultimate gift – dedicating the Bobcat Softball Complex in her...

Shula’s Golf Club hosted its annual Member Guest tournament April 20-22. Players competed over three days using the football match play format.This year the theme was “Classic Rock & Roll.” Flight trophies consisted of framed replica guitars from the band they represented. Flights included Aerosmith, Journey, Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, The Who, and Van Halen. The overall trophies were framed gold 12-inch records.The 2017...

During the first 13 games of his junior season in 2016, Florida International University catcher JC Escarra batted .271 with five doubles and 10 RBI and had two or more hits in four games.But Escarra’s promising season was cut short following a shoulder injury that required season-ending surgery.However the injury had no ill-effects, as Escarra, a Mater Academy alumni who was drafted by the New York Mets, picked up where he left off.So...