LOCAL NOTES : Santa Ana’s Allison Wins Golf Title in Delaware

Alicia Allison of Santa Ana shot a two-over-par 74 Thursday to win the Betsy Rawls girls’ national championship at the Hercules Country Club in Wilmington, Del.

Allison finished with a one-over total of 217 for the three-day tournament. Erika Hayashida of Peru shot a 222 to finish second.

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza was third at 223 after a closing 72, the day’s best round. Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills finished with a 78 for a total of 229.

Tiger Woods of Cypress continued his quest for a second consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur Championship by easily winning his first two matches.

Woods defeated Brian Bombard of Rochester, N.Y., 8 and 7 in the first round, then beat Nick Malinowski of Dallas, 4 and 3, in the second at the Wollaston Golf Club in Milton, Mass.

Two more rounds of match play are scheduled today, with the champion to be crowned after semifinal and final matches Saturday.

Ben Garner of Lake Forest lost, 2 and 1, to Derek Jackson ofDunwoody, Ga., in the first round.

Woods didn’t trail in either match and was 3 under through 11 holes against Bombard. He was even-par in the afternoon in defeating Malinowski. Altogether, he had nine birdies in 26 holes.

“I didn’t want to let up,” Woods said. “I didn’t feel any pressure because I was never down, but you can’t relax. You can always lose. A guy can make a birdie run on you.”

Four of the top five stroke-play qualifiers survived the first two rounds. Among the other 12 players remaining was Brian Crawford, 14, of Granby, Mass.

“I get real inspiration from watching Tiger,” said Crawford, one of the youngest players in the field. “I’d love to play him.”

David Warady of Huntington Beach picked up over five minutes on leader Tom Rogozinski of Hagerstown, Md., in the 41st stage of the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace.

Warady completed the 45.75 miles from Brookfield to Clarence, Mo., in 7 hours 25 minutes 30 seconds, putting him 1:15:32 behind Rogozinski.

Milan Milanovic of Switzerland won the stage in 6:51:05.

Rob Kish of Port Orange, Fla., and Bob Forney of Denver continued their dominance of the male riders in cycling’s Race Across America.

Kish passed through the race’s 40th time station in Forest, Miss., at 7:50 p.m. (PDT), 1 hour 11 minutes ahead of Forney, a two-time winner of this race, which began Friday in Irvine.

Kish and Forney were the only two cyclists to have reached the 40th time station Thursday.

Seana Hogan of San Jose leads the women’s division, passing the 32nd time station, Mt. Pleasant, Tex., at 6:49 p.m. She is four time stations ahead of the next woman, Debbie Turner of Mobile, Ala.