Southland

Eric Hulst, the top high school distance runner in Orange County history, is recovering from an operation performed last Sunday to remove a tumor from the right side of his brain.

Hulst, 33, is expected to be released from Hoag Memorial Hospital early this week and will undergo daily chemotherapy and radiation treatments on an outpatient basis beginning Friday.

Hulst won three Southern Section 2-A cross-country titles in three years and also won a 19-and-under world cross-country championship.

He set national class records for the two-mile as a freshman (9 minutes 4 seconds), sophomore (8:50.6) and junior (8:44.9).