Franchesca Chiera is off to a strong start in her first season in the intermeciate level of figure skating.

Franchesca Chiera, of Coral Springs, continued her impressive move into intermediate skaing this summer by winning four gold medals last weekend at the Cranberry Open on Cape Cod.

Chiera, 12, of the Panthers Figure Skating Club, won the intermediate women's short program and free skate (long program) finals, as well as posting the top scores in both events during the qualifying rounds. Also winning a gold medal for the PFSC was Andrew Torgashev, 9, in the juvenile boys' free skate.

Chiera, runner-up in the juvenile division at Junior Nationals in December, is off to an impressive start in the next age level. She won four gold medals at the Liberty Summer Competition near Philadelphia in July, then matched that effort with a dominant performance in the Cranberry, a prestigious competition in its 30th year in South Dennis, Mass.

"The whole summer was a great experience –  to go to Philadelphia and win four gold medals, and come back and work extra hard and then go to Boston and win four more," Chiera said.

Teammate Jackie Jablon, of Parkland, was third in the intermediate free skate finals among 39 skaters and seventh in the short program.

Other finishes by PFSC skaters, who train at Saveology Iceplex in Coral Springs:

Samantha Scott, juvenile girls: seventh in qualifying of free skate and fifth in the finals out of a field of 36.

Jablon: second in qualifying for intermediate short program and third in qualifying for the free skate.

Bailee Glickman: 10th in qualifying for both programs in intermediate women.

Torgashev, who earned a personal-best score of 42.14, is the son of Chiera's PFSC coaches, Ilona Melnichenko and Artem Torgashev, both of whom are former members of the Soviet National Team.

"It's fun," said Andrew Torgashev, who has already been skating for five years. "When I compete against a bunch of boys, then it's a challenge for me. When I'm competing against myself it's like a practice."

He and the other PFSC skaters are preparing for junior regional competition in October in Raleigh, N.C.

For complete scores from the Cranberry Open, visit www.thecranberryopen.com