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And the All-Area envelope please ...

By
Tony Ciniglio
on January 7, 2009 10:26 PM |

Woods POY.jpgIt's official. The long-awaited Daily Breeze All-Area football team is coming out Thursday morning. Here's a couple highlights:

Player of the Year -- Serra junior Robert Woods. The best player in the South Bay this season on BOTH sides of the ball and perhaps the most clutch (check out what he did in the playoffs).

Coach of the Year -- Well, since they couldn't decide it on the field, the Daily Breeze wasn't going to decide it either. The Coach of the Year will be shared by Narbonne's Manuel Douglas and San Pedro's Mike Walsh.

Co-Coaches.jpgBoth Douglas and Walsh had remarkable 12-1-1 seasons, both won the City Section title (albeit in a strange 21-21 tie) and both held off outstanding campaigns by Mira Costa's Don Morrow and El Segundo's Steve Shevlin.

The South Bay Athletic Club luncheon honoring the 48 All-Area players will be held Thursday at noon at the Torrance Doubletree. Tickets are $25 (includes lunch).

So check out the team in the morning paper. Did the Daily Breeze get it right? Who were the big winners? Who received the biggest snubs?

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Tony Ciniglio

Tony Ciniglio is an 11-year veteran at the Daily Breeze and is the Prep-JC Editor. Ciniglio graduated from Malibu High (home of the mighty Sharks) in 1997 as part of the school's second graduating class before attending powerhouse Pepperdine (Class of 2001), thus shattering any reader's preconceived notion that he has any personal bias when it comes to South Bay Preps.

E-mail Tony at tony.ciniglio@dailybreeze.com.

Dave Thorpe

Dave Thorpe was a self-proclaimed, slightly above average baseball player back in the day at Torrance's West High, who went on and had an unspectacular, injury-riddled stint as a third baseman at El Camino College. Trading bat for pen, Thorpe wrote sports for the Long Beach Union newspaper at Long Beach State University, then worked as the sports editor for the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for seven years before climbing down the Hill to the Daily Breeze, where he has been a sports writer covering local sports for more than two years.

E-mail Dave at dave.thorpe@dailybreeze.com.

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