Ocean View’s basketball team, considered the co-favorite...

Ocean View’s basketball team, considered the co-favorite with Huntington Beach to win the Sunset League title this season, has been given a boost with the addition of two transfers, according to Coach Jim Harris.

Power forward Amir Korangy, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound senior from Waldrip High in Washington, D.C. and guard Mike Randall, a 6-foot junior from Palisades High, are expected to help Ocean View improve upon last year’s record of 17-10.

“Amir is a left-hander who can shoot and passes well,” Harris said. “He’s got to learn to play better defense, but he has great instincts on the court. He reminds me of (former center) Jim Usevitch in that he’s a very hard worker.”

Korangy arrived at Ocean View in early July and played about two weeks in summer league games before returning to Washington, D.C. He came back to Ocean View in late August and established residency in Ocean View’s attendance area.

“Randall started for Palisades last year, and I think he’ll take some of the pressure off Jimmy (Harris) in our backcourt,” Harris said.

What Next? The injury jinx has hit Ocean View’s football team again this season. Last year, the Seahawks suffered seven major injuries in struggling to a 1-9 record. Coach Howard Isom figured it was one of those years and dismissed the rash of injuries when the 1992 season began.

But after Ocean View’s two-way tackle, Tom Norman, suffered a freak knee injury in the Seahawks’ second game, against Newport Harbor, that ended his season, Isom is wondering what’s going to happen next.

“It was the first play of the game and Tom jumped offside,” Isom said. “He barely touched the kid on the other side of the line and his knee exploded. It was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. I’m starting to wonder if our school was built on some sort of sacred Indian burial grounds.”