SOURCE: Ed Lalau is new Gardena football coach

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Tony Ciniglio
on February 18, 2009 2:58 PM | | Comments (3) |

Ed Lalau.jpgIt appears Ed Lalau is returning to South Bay football.

The former Banning coach has been hired to take over at Gardena, sources told the Daily Breeze on Wednesday.

Lalau takes over for longtime coach Marshall Jones, who decided to step down from the post in November. Jones had a 59-65-1 record in 10 seasons, but was just 2-18 in the last two years. 

Lalau has been a proven winner, claiming the 1999 L.A. City Section Invitational title and the 2000 City Championship title at Banning.

Lalau returned to Banning in mid-season in 2005 and helped salvage what appeared to be a lost season when Coach Randy Block was forced out after two games.

More to come on this developing story.

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By Anonymous on March 30, 2009 5:14 PM

Did Ted landers sign

By player / coach on May 12, 2009 8:33 AM

Some school needs to pick up Phil Brown DB/WR from BANNING... All Southbay DB with most BINGO's
& the kid can play wide-out.. 5'9, 165, 3.0 gpa, 1200 SAT, and runs a 4.5 & benches 250 lbs...

GOOD LUCK!!!! Coach ED & Panthers
Watch out for GARDENA!!!!!
Theres about 4 or 5 D-1 players at GHS.
I bet they get to the playoffs......
(2nd or 3rd round)

By fan on July 23, 2009 7:26 PM

A good hire until a Teacher with a Credential wants the job. Every school has 3 to 4 div 1 recruits. Must beat San Pedro Carson Narbonne Crenshaw 4and6 at best.

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Tony Ciniglio has been covering sports at the Daily Breeze since 1997 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 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 since 2007.

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