The high school soccer season has been saved.
The season, which was suppose to start a week and a half ago, was in jeopardy because they didn't have an agreement with the referees.
Lambton-Kent Secondary School Athletic Association (LKSSAA) Coordinator James Clarke says they been negotiating for three weeks with the Ontario Soccer Association.
"They were looking to have individual MOU [memorandum of understanding] signed by the associations, and their biggest concern was protection of their officials against physical and verbal abuse by players and coaches," he says.
Clarke says privacy issues were the biggest sticking point.
"If a player was disciplined in our association, to share that information so they could also cross discipline through minor soccer or travel soccer," he says. "Those were the things we were stuck on for awhile."
They're not wasting any time getting the season underway.
"The game's will start as early as tomorrow, the schedules has gone out to the schools. Looks like we're going to have a couple games on Wednesday, couple games on Thursday," says Clarke. "Then we're going to bunch them in over the next couple of weeks, so probably end up playing two or three games a week in order to get us to the playoffs because we have to meet our regional time dates as well."
