Soccer Club

The Caspian Soccer Club is in its final days of practice before heading to Gothenberg, Sweden, to participate in the prestigious Gothia Cup.Coach Mahmood Ebrahimzadeh, a former professional player with World Cup and Olympic experience, is taking over three teams -- boys and girls 18-under and 13-under boys -- to represent Carroll and Frederick counties. The club will be leaving for Europe on Saturday with Gothia Cup play beginning on Monday.Ebrahimzadeh said 600 to 700 teams and about 20,000 young soccer players from all over the world will be competing.

Send sports notices a minimum of two weeks before the requested publication date to Patuxent Publishing/TT Sports Notices, Third floor, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21278; e-mail tworgo@tribune.com . Include date, time, location, contact information and subsection. Competitive Charmers Lacrosse Club seeks players for 2014, 2015 teams. admin@charmerslax.org or call 443-768-3681. Towson-based Mighty Milers youth cross country program accepts registrations for spring season.

The Caspian Soccer Club players and coaches will receive a Carroll County flag from the county commissioners to carry to the Gothia Cup International Soccer Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden.The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. today on the steps of the County Office Building.The commissioners have endorsed the players as goodwill ambassadors. Players from more than 60 countries will participate in the tournament in Sweden.Meanwhile, a spaghetti dinner will be served from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Westminster VFW Post 467, 519 Poole St., to benefit the Caspian Soccer Club.

Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. on Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Soccer The Thunder Soccer Club's U14 girls Siafu, born on or after Aug. 1, 1998, are looking for experienced Division 1 players for the spring season. The team will compete in the Region 1 Colonial League and several competitive tournaments. Visit ThunderSoccerClub.org or email p.corbett10@gmail.com . Golf The First Tee of Howard County is accepting registration for its spring and summer sessions.

A NEW ERA in area youth soccer begins this weekend at Roberts Mill Park in Taneytown.Francis Scott Key Junior Eagles Soccer Club kicks off its regular season at its new home Saturday, and the group has a morning ceremony planned to dedicate its fields, show appreciation to the city for their construction and celebrate opening day.Action at the new park starts with an 8: 30 a.m. game between the Francis Scott Key under-10 boys B team and Reisterstown/Owings Mills,...

IRONIC, IN a way, this thing about a shortage of fields in Howard County. Just ask the Thunder Soccer Club, which despite a morning delay yesterday because of soggy fields, is conducting its season-ending Fall Bash tournament for boys this weekend and for girls next weekend, drawing 135 teams from as far as New York and Ohio. "We're a western Howard County club, but most of our games are being played in the eastern part of the county," said Scott Maurer, who with Kim Clapp chairs the growing travel club's event.

The temperatures here high and the Soccer Club of Baltimore boys were hot, winning four Maryland Cups yesterday at Essex Community College.All state boys' and girls' champions in age groups from under-12 to under-20, plus runners-up in the girls under-17 and under-18 divisions, advanced to the United States Youth Soccer Region I tournament July 2-5 in Erie, Pa. Regional titlists in under-16 to under-20 age groups go to the national championships July 30-Aug....

Conceding one goal in five games is a superlative performance for most defenses, but when that one score creates a deficit in the championship game to an elite team, the results are not often favorable. Fortunately for the Soccer Club of Baltimore Bays, Kwaku Boateng is healthy and hungry. The Hammond High product scored twice and assisted David Glaudemans' game-winner as the Bays stormed past the Philadelphia-area Delco Arsenal, 3-1, yesterday to capture the 27th Annual Columbia Invitation under-19 boys championship at Centennial High School.

IF YOU have a travel soccer player under your roof or nearby, this may be a big, busy weekend for the household. It's Snickers Maryland State Cup time, a spring ritual that means competition distinct from league play. For some age groups, it's a rite that by midsummer can yield a national title, because the competition is going on across the country. Three county clubs - the Soccer Association of Columbia/Howard County, the Columbia Soccer Club, and the western county's Thunder Soccer Club - have teams entered.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Jerry Richardson, coach of the notorious Mandela United Football Club, told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission yesterday that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela ordered all the murders and assaults he committed."

When he was 13 years old, Sunny Jane decided to leave his home country of Lesotho and move to the United States to advance his soccer career. Last Sunday, Jane took another step along that path as he contributed two goals and an assist as the second-seeded Terps cruised to a 5-1 victory over Coastal Carolina in the NCAA tournament. The win secured a trip to the quarterfinals and a rematch against Louisville on Saturday at 5 p.m. in College Park. The matchup with the Cardinals is particularly interesting for Jane because his first trip to the College Cup hinges on beating a college from Kentucky, the state in which he settled after coming to the country.

Send sports notices a minimum of two weeks before the requested publication date to Patuxent Publishing/MS Sports Notices, Third floor, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21278; e-mail tworgo@patuxent.com . Include date, time, location, contact information and subsection. Competitive Boys' Latin School seeks a junior varsity tennis coach. mthomas@boyslatinmd.com . MABA 15 U baseball team seeking two players for the 2012 Season. 410-868-7239 or dhoffman@cpsgumpert.com . The Pikesville Soccer Club is recruiting boys and girls players and coaches for the spring season.

Send sports notices a minimum of two weeks before the requested publication date to Patuxent Publishing/MS Sports Notices, Third floor, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21278; e-mail tworgo@patuxent.com . Include date, time, location, contact information and subsection. Competitive Towson rec holds registration for baseball starting this month. Practices starts in March. 410-887-5883 or http://www.towsonrec.com. The Pikesville Soccer Club is recruiting boys and girls players and coaches for the spring season.

The Baltimore Bays have been named the nation's top boys soccer club by Soccer America for a record fourth straight year. The club won its record ninth U.S. Youth Soccer boys championship when the Under-19 Bays Chelsea team defeated the Chicago Fire Juniors, 2-0, to capture the 76th McGuire Cup at the 2011 National Championships this summer. It was the third national championship for the squad, which also won as U-14 and U-15 squads. The Bays club has won at least one national championship in each of the past six years.

The Greater Harford Soccer Club, in conjunction with its newly acquired adviser, Colone Associates of Oneonta, N.Y., is working to create the largest soccer complex in the county, which will include 11 to 15 high-quality fields for the use of professional teams and tournaments, organizers say. The Greater Harford Soccer Park, to be completed in 2007, will cover about 86 acres in two parcels in the Aberdeen area - about 30 acres on Beards Hill Road and...

A member of the top-rated youth soccer program in the country, Mike Gamble was asked what it felt like to put on the Baltimore Bays' jersey. Gamble, currently on the club's under-16 team and one of the U.S.'s most promising players, hinted that the better question may have been whether he ever takes the jersey off. "In my house and everywhere I go, I'm always wearing Bays stuff because I feel so much pride," said Gamble, the team's top...