Striking out in San Pedro

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Tony Ciniglio
on December 1, 2008 10:58 PM | | Comments (0) |

San Pedro boys soccer coach Paul Butterfield found out the hard way that  soccer officials are striking against the L.A. City Section, a strike that's been ongoing for about 10 days over wages.

Except Butterfield was not made aware of the situation until 30 minutes before game time against Palisades on Monday when the officials refused to work the junior varsity match. forcing the teams to cancel it.

And the weird thing is that Butterfield should have been in on the loop: he's on the advisory board.

"It's been going on for a week-and-a-half, and no one bothered to tell me," Butterfield said. "I don't have a problem with them striking, but I have a problem about not knowing it sooner. We made the kids miss two periods of instruction for no reason.

"I'm not saying that the referees aren't justified or that my adminstration is wong, but we needed to know in advance. In the end, the kids suffered."

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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.

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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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