It's about time ...

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Tony Ciniglio
on September 2, 2008 8:54 PM | | Comments (0) |

It was not much of a surprise, but it was something that was long overdue.

The Pioneer League will move from Division V to Division IV in softball, rectifying a discrepancy that had the area's top softball teams facing teams about a third of their size in the playoffs.

The Pioneer League earned the top three seeds in the Division V playoffs last season and had an All-Pioneer League final between North Torrance and Torrance, meaning the league was running roughshod in the division.

North won the Division V title last season with a dramatic 3-2 win over Torrance, and North coach Howard Miller was looking forward to going against the likes of Bishop Montgomery and Santa Monica in Division IV.

"I expected it," Miller said. "I mean come on, we should've been that high to begin with when the league was formed."

Couldn't have been said any better.

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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.

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