Harbor hoopsters reunited

Generations came together Saturday for the second annual Newport

Harbor Alumni Basketball Tournament, where alumni from the 1970s

passed to 2002 alumni as players from the ‘80s posted-up on alumni

from the ‘90s.

The mix-and-match format combined players from the ‘70s through

2002 into 10 three- or four-man teams that played five half-court

games.

“Everyone showed up with an excellent attitude, getting to know

people they wouldn’t have gotten to play with, while also guarding

some of the people they played against,” said Tournament Director

Jaime Holmes and a Harbor High ’73 graduate. “It kind of takes the

ego out of it. It was a congenial-type level.”

The games started at 9 a.m. Saturday. After five games, four teams

combined to form two teams of seven to play a full-court championship

game with 15-minute halves.

The team of Greg Perrine (2002), Brian Cottrell, Bob Torribio

(‘95), John Murray (2000), Rich Yardley (‘75), Brian Freeman (‘79)

and Dane Louvier (‘02) beat the team of Steve Bukich (‘74), Cory

Everhart (81), Aaron Yarnal (‘01), Brian O’Flaherty (‘74), Kevin

Seberg (‘81), Eric Dragaset (‘88) and Tony Melum (‘02), 53-44, with a

second-half comeback as Perrine and Freeman were the leading scorers,

Holmes said.

Three generations of Louviers played in the tournament Saturday,

including grandfather Ray, children Norm, Mark and Bruce and Ray’s

grandson Dane.

The tournament generated about $750 to $1,000 for the Newport

Harbor High Basketball Booster Club.

With more and more years under its belt, Holmes said he hopes the

tournament will generate 120 players in 10 years as more alumni read

or hear about it.

“As more and more people hear and talk about it, hopefully it will

grow,” Holmes said.