Basketball recruiting: Tars’ Perrine to Chapman

Barry Faulkner

NEWPORT BEACH - Newport Harbor High senior point guard Greg

Perrine, who helped lead the Sailors to their first outright Sea View

League boys basketball championship since 1985, will continue his playing

career at Chapman University, his mother Kathleen said Friday.

Perrine, the 2002 Sea View League Player of the Year, averaged 10.2

points in 20 games. He missed the first seven games of the season

recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL. He scored 26 points his

first seven games back, which included some limited playing time due to

lingering soreness in his knee. But, the final 13 games, he averaged 13.6

points, including a season-high 23 against Aliso Niguel and a

game-winning three-pointer in the closing seconds at Sea View League

rival Laguna Hills.

The 6-foot-1 standout, a three-year varsity performer who is also a

key member of the Sailors’ volleyball team, is expected to compete for

playing time right away with Coach Mike Bokosky’s Division III Panthers.

“I think it’s a great spot for him,” Newport Harbor Coach Larry Hirst

said.