Boys basketball: Melum tabbed All-CIF, again

NEWPORT BEACH - Newport Harbor High’s Tony Melum, a 6-foot-6 senior

forward who helped guide the Sailors to win the Sea View League title,

the school’s first outright league championship since 1985, received CIF

Southern Section Division II-AA honors, as determined by the division’s

coaches.

Melum, who earned All-CIF Division I-A recognition as a junior,

averaged 21.5 points per game and helped Coach Larry Hirst’s Tars advance

to the CIF Division II-AA second round, before being eliminated by Villa

Park. Newport finished 20-7.

Melum will represent the South boys in the Orange County All-Star

Basketball Game, April 20 at Orange Coast College.