The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding registration for the 2015 Fall baseball and softball season from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., on consecutive Saturdays, August 8, 15 and 22, at Miami Lakes Middle School, 6425 Miami Lakeway North. The Optimist Club welcomes returning and new players to play in an exciting season. New players must bring a copy of their birth certificates to the registration, which costs $145 per person....

  Even coming off of their highly successful 2014-2015 season where they went all the way to the regional finals, Monsignor Edward Pace High School’s boys basketball team has stayed busy in the summer with trips to universities across the Southeast and the basketball Spartan Boot Camp in June. All of this summer activity is common for the Spartans, according to their head coach Anthony Serro. He explained that the camps and...

    Darnell Flucker, a student at Barbara Goleman Senior High School, was named recipient of the Coach Rick Quintanilla Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to football players who not only play well on the field, but also show honor, courage and commitment. In the face of adversity, Flucker pressed on and continued attending practices all the while coping with his mother’s illness, a blood clot in her lung. “We are...

  The Palm Springs North Little Giants 8-and-under baseball team won the Hammocks Alliance Tournament. It was the team’s second championship this Summer. The Little Giants won the South Florida All-Star Alliance Summer tournament in West Kendall in late June. The team finished the regular season 11-1 and a tournament record of 16-3, for an overall performance of 27 wins and only four loses. Next season, the Little Giants will be...

  Laura Lou, a junior member at Shula’s Golf Club, recently won the Jack Nicklaus Junior Golf Event in the age 13-15 category. The event was played at the Jonathan Landings Course, with rounds of 85 and 78. Last April, Lou won the 5th Annual Honda Classic Junior Par 3 Challenge, played at Palm Beach Par 3 Course. Lou’s father, Cesar Lou, said “Laura has worked very hard on her irons and short game which she honed each...