The Miami Lakes Optimist Club will be holding its summer basketball registration for boys and girls on consecutive Saturdays, April 12, 19 and 26, from 9:30 to noon at Miami Lakes Middle School. Registration cost is $145 for each player from ages 11-18. The season starts Monday, June 9. Games will be played at Barbara Goleman High School and Hialeah Gardens Senior High School. Parents must bring their kids to the registration along...

  Monsignor Edward Pace High School will be host its annual Spartan Golf Classic on Friday, April 4. The tournament will take place at the historical Country Club of Miami located at 6801 N.W. 186 Street. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. Golfers will have unlimited use of the driving range, and lunch will be provided by Outback Steakhouse from 11 a.m to noon with a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. "Longest Drive" and "Closest to the...

  Trinity Christian Academy (TCA) located at 1498 W. 84 Street in Hialeah, defeated Wade Christian Academy of Melbourne in the FCAA State Basketball Championship in Ft. Pierce on March 4.  TCA's boys’ varsity basketball head coach, Robert Donahue, a Miami Lakes Middle School and Hialeah Miami Lakes Senior High alumnus, led the TCA Crusaders to the win with a final score of 61-53 effectively ending Wade's fourth consecutive...

  Gabriella Perez-Robles, an 8th-grade student at Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School, was honored as one of the February Academic/Sportsmanship Team Players before the February 3 Miami Heat game against the Detroit Pistons at American Airlines Arena. Each honoree received a Certificate of Achievement, a Heat gift pack, and two Heat tickets. After meeting Heat players Shane Battier, Udonis Haslem, Rashard Lewis, Roger Mason Jr., and...

  The Miami Lakes Optimist Panama Mutiny Elite won a bid to play in the popular 2014 Elite World Series scheduled for play at Walt Disney World. The Mutiny Elite was among 19 teams that competed in the USSSA North Florida Dual Super Nit tournament in Gainesville and advanced to the World Series with a 6-0 record and the USSSA championship. The Mutiny had early pool game wins against the Orlando Stingers (11-2) and Orlando’s top...