The MUSC U10 Lightning girls soccer team recently completed a very successful indoor soccer season at YSC Sports in Hatboro. The team finished atop the league's regular season standings with a record of 7-1-1.

In the playoffs, the Lightning lost their opening game to the MUSC Spirit. But the team rebounded to defeat Upper Dublin White, Chestnut Hill and Upper Dublin Red to reach the finals, where the Lightning lost a well-played, intense rematch to the MUSC Spirit 1-0.

Pictured front row (from left): Josie Ruzek, Giavanna Hunt, Alyssa Selvarian, Amanda Greaney, Meghan Coulton, Kailyn Diamond.  Middle row: Riley Fetzer, Sophia Anthony, Colleen Viereck, Kathleen Peter, Daelin Brown, Zoei Baines, Emma Dungan. Back row: Assistant coach Bryan Ruzek, head coach Don Baines, assistant coach Mark Dungan. Not pictured:  Isabella Freer.

The Montgomery Fusion Girls 12U AAU basketball team captured first Place at TarHeels Classic April 16-17 in Fairfax County, Va.

Pictured front row (from left): Tara Sheridan, Casey Carrigan, Sammy Lochner, Lindsay Joyce. Back row: Coach Chip Greenberg, Ashley George, Abby Ward, Bailey Greenberg, Lydia Konstanzer, Molly Smith, Erica DeCandido, coach John Ward, Leah Simmons, Mikaela Giuliani, coach Mike Giuliani. Not Pictured: Ashley McAfee.

The Deep Run SkyHawks 13s travel basketball team went 4-0 to win the Above the Rim tournament.

Deep Run, which won the tournament the previous two years, started off every game with a full-court press to set the tone. The Skyhawks' Tommy Nuneviller, Brian Rosenberg, Mauricio Columna, and Sam Handy brought the defensive intensity, while Danny Ziccardi, Joey Unangst, Danny Shane, and Adam Bahl lead the way in scoring.  Devon Rice played solid at point guard and Teddy Rohrbach hit timely three pointers.

Pictured: Joey Unangst, Tommy Nuneviller, Brian Rosenberg, Danny Ziccardi,  Sam Handy, Mauricio Columna, Danny Shane, Teddy Rohrbach, Devon Rice, Adam Bahl,  coach Dan Ziccardi.

Kianna Yancey, age 9 and her 8-year-old sister Kayla Yancey won a total of three medals at the Junior Olympic East National Diving Championships, held at the University of Tenneesse April 7-10 in Knoxville.

The competition featured over 200 of the best divers from around the country, with the girls, representing the Imaginary Dive Club and Montgomery County Sports Performance Center, performing extremely well despite being two years younger than most of their fellow divers.

In the 11-and-Under Girls Division, Kianna Yancey placed seventh in the one-meter board and ninth on the three-meter. Kaya Yancey placed ninth on the one-meter.

Several other divers from our area also participated, including: 8-year-old Madalyn Freece, 12-year-old Ian Boland Bintner, 13-year-old Marie Yacopino,14-year-old Megan Berardelli and 15-year old Dylan Yurasits.

Team Blue (sponsored by Pet Patrol) swept a championship series in two games by scores of 51-46 and 46-37 against a previously undefeated team to win the TYA Basketball Girls Majors (ages 13-18) title.

Pictured front row (from left): Alison Kahney, Brooke Morris, Laura Kane, Alyssa Shoulberg. Back row: Coach Wes Hawkins, Amelie Poulin, Courtney Gill, Danielle Harris, Kristen Morrison, coach Bruce Iglesias, coach Al Maness.

The Deep Run Skyhawks U12 boys travel basketball team went 23-0 against 12-year old competition, won two tournaments and one league championship and outscored opponents by nearly 500 points.

The Skyhawks claimed the King of the Court II Tournament title by winning by 35 in the semifinals then besting Southampton in the final.  Deep Run won the ICBA league title with an eight-point win over Whitpain in the final and two hours later added a title championship after defeating Warrington by 20 points in the Deep Run Tournament final.

Pictured front row (from left) :  Austin Rush, Max Wagner, Andrew Horne, Daniel Jalosinski, Anthony Cicero. Back row:  Assistant coach Anthony Molettiere, Joe Molettiere, Ryan Gordon, Stephen Lowry, head coach Mike Wagner.

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The Corpus Christi CYO ninth annual March Madness basketball tournament brought together hundreds of students, alumni and parishioners to raise over $1,500 for the American Cancer Society and Coaches vs. Cancer. The weekend-long event featured boys and girls games. Teams were named after top NCAA contenders and were coached by 50 returning Corpus Christi alumni.

Abington Bank was again the Major Sponsor of the 32nd Annual Glenside Kiwanis Club Special Athlete Basketball Tournament with 18 teams from Abington, Lower Moreland, Ambler, Lower Bucks County, Conshohocken, Northampton, North Penn area and Pottstown competing.

The athletes competed in individual competitions in the morning and team competition in the afternoon. The individual competitors each received a medal of merit and all team players received an appropriate trophy. Pictured are representatives of the athletes with the Abington Bank sponsoring banner.

Spencer Nice, age 10, of the Souderton swim team, will be competing at the 2011 Eastern Zone Swimming Short Course Age Group Championship March 31-April 2 in Webster, N.Y., just east of Rochester.

Nice broke five team records this season: 50 fly, 50 breast, 50 back, 100 free and 100 individual medley. He set a new Suburban Aquatic League record in the 50 breast with a time of 34.32 at the SAL Championships on Feb. 6 at La Salle University.

At the Middle Atlantic Junior Olympics in March, Nice broke a Junior Olympic record in winning the 100 breast in a time of 1:13.00. He finished the meet with eight overall medals (four first place, one second, two third and one fifth).

Ranked nationally in both the 100 breast (third) and 50 breast (fourth), Nice also swim for the Souderton Aquatic Club and has been training for the zone met and Junior Olympics with the North Penn Aquatic Club.

The Corpus Christi 4th Grade Girls Red basketball team finished 10-1 overall and 9-1 in the Region 20 CYO league, its only loss coming 10-8 to Our Lady of Guadalupe in Buckingham. Corpus Christi averaged over 17 points per game while allowing just nine points a contest.


Pictured front row (from left): Sarah Fitzpatrick, Karly Greely, Hannah O'Donnell, Allie Prue, Megan O'Donnell, Keira O'Sullivan, Angela Crivelli, Jamie Marks. Middle row: Kelsey Van Thuyne, Emily Freer, Brenna Tento. Back row: Coach Russ Freer, assistant coach Tim Fitzpatrick. Not pictured: Jessica Velicer.

Holly Grosse, an 11-year-old from Lansdale, earned an invitation to compete in the 2011 Eastern Surfing Association (ESA) Northeast Regional Surfing Championships, to held April 29-May 1 in Newport, R.I.

Grosse, who attends St. Juse Elementary School in Chalfont, will reprsent the ESA South Jersey District, which she has surfed in since she was eight, and qualified for regionals by amassing 2,430 points during the district's 2010 surfing contest season. Grosse is competing at regionals in the Girls 14-and-Under Division, with the top three advancing to the East Coast Finals at Cape Hatteras, N.C. in September.

Grosse is the daughter of Jeff and Hope Grosse of Lansdale. Her sister, Veronica Grosse, was ranked third in the same girls division in 2008 at age 12, that year winning the annual Peck's Beach contest in Ocean City, N.J., where the family resides during the summer.

The Red team won the championship of the TYA Basketball Girls Instructional League

Pictured front row (from left):  Grace Jeitner, Allison Lindsay, Brighton DeWitt, Samantha Maile. Back row: Coach Karen Lindsay, Bridget Sweeney, Carley Adams, Olivia Addalli, Kelly Sabolsky, Morgan Farrell, coach Nate DeWitt. Not pictured: MiKayla Oleary.

Team Gold won the TYA Basketball Boys  Intermediate Division championship with a 39-34 victory in the final. 

Pictured front row (from left): Amar Patel, Daniel Lugo, Alex Hirsh, Alex Gilbert,  Back row: Anthony Penna, CJ Delamater, Nick Kuhn, coach Don Delamater, Mayank Patel, Bruno George, Mitch Gilbert.

The Towamencin U8 Girls Indoor Select soccer team,  the Tigers, claimed the 2011 BucksMont Indoor Soccer Winter League title after coming back from last place overall and playing three straight games to win the championship tournament.

Pictured front row (from left): Front Row:  Audrey Moroz, Eleni Kountroubis, Ella Broadhurst. Middle row: Madison Waldsperger, Allison Lindsay, Maya McDermott, Charlotte Patterson. Back row: Kathryn Rimmer, Katie Blanch, Jordan Blank, Caroline Hoy, Emma Lewis, Keyra Heinlein, Clare Owsiany. Not pictured: Sierra Duardo, coach Mark Moroz, coach Greg Duardo, coach Danielle Broadhurst, coach Karen Lindsay.

The Red team claimed the TYA Basketball Boys Instructional League (Ages 7-8) championship with a 32-22 victory in the final on March 16. Joshua Jones and Jack Bechtel were both instrumental in the win.

Pictured front row (from left): Dom DellaPenna, Joshua Jones, Noah Walton, Jake Hudgeons. Middle row: Ben Sanfelice, Jack Bechtel, Ty Sparango, David Waskiewicz. Back row: Dave Waskiewicz, David Jones, Mike Sparango.

On March 10, the Blue team won the TYA Basketball Boys Junior Division (Ages 9-10) championship with a 44-35 victory in the final with Owen Bradford named game MVP.

Pictured front row (from left): Sam Aleide, Brennan Orth, Aiden Orth, Anthony Heiler, Thomas Cusumano Middle row: Owen Bradford, David Baik, Nick Scheetz, Derian Bradford. Back row: coach Erik Scheetz, coach Ron Heile. Not pictured:  Jarett Brown.