Gary Sommer, the lawyer of Syracuse lacrosse midfielder Pat Perritt, told The Daily Orange on Monday that Perritt planned to leave school Monday or today.

‘He won’t be back as far as this semester,’ Sommer said. ‘He hopes at some time in the future to return to Syracuse. He really likes Syracuse University.’

Perritt released a statement to the media Sunday morning stating his plan to withdraw from school, citing ‘an ongoing medical condition that has recently worsened.’ That was based, Perritt said, on his doctor’s recommendation.

In the statement Perritt asked for privacy for he and his family regarding his situation.

‘I don’t know when the decision was made exactly,’ Sommer said. ‘It was a process of a decision that was made in a few days.’

Perritt and midfielder John Carrozza were arrested on March 11 for resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. After their two-game suspensions, both issued public apologies on March 28.

Perritt cited his desire to stay in Syracuse this summer to do community service and take classes-part of his way to pay retribution for his actions.

‘I am seeing an alcohol counselor, and I have stopped drinking,’ Perritt said in his public apology. ‘I have also sent an apology letter to the members of the Syracuse Police Department who were there. I have also offered, if I am allowed to stay in school, to stay here in Syracuse this summer and do community service, which I hopefully can do in some way which will benefit underprivileged kids here in the Syracuse community.’

Sommer couldn’t speculate when, if at all, Perritt would return. Perritt scored seven goals this season as a preseason Tewaaraton Award candidate. He scored 17 goals last year.

Published on April 15, 2007 at 12:00 pm