LOCAL NOTES : Woods Reaches Junior Amateur Semifinals

Tiger Woods of Cypress moved closer to his second consecutive U.S. Junior Amateur championship by defeating Scott Persin of Naperville, Ill., 4 and 3, and Ryan Armour of Silver Lake, Ohio, 8 and 6, Friday in Milton, Mass.

Woods, 16, faces Jon Bartlett, 15, of Ocala, Fla., in one semifinal match today. Mark Wilson, 17, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., faces Todd Lynch, 16, of Winston-Salem, N.C., in the other semifinal.

The winners will meet in an 18-hole championship match later in the day.

Woods never trailed Friday and was four under par through 12 holes.

“I just want to win, that’s enough pressure,” Woods said. “If I’m playing good, then I expect to win. If not, I’ll lose. I always want to start off good. I don’t want to get down early.”

Woods’ opponent said he was looking forward to the match.

“He doesn’t intimidate me,” Bartlett said. “He can’t be that much better than me because I was three under in my afternoon match.”

David Warady of Huntington Beach regained the lead in the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace, finishing more than two hours ahead of former leader Tom Rogozinski of Hagerstown, Md., who ran despite an illness.

Warady finished the 51-mile, 42nd stage from Clarence to Hannibal, Mo., in 8 hours 3 minutes 36 seconds to finish fourth. Rogozinski, who has either the flu or food poisoning, finished eighth in 10:08:23 and dropped 49:15 behind. Rogozinski took the lead from Warady last Saturday and had been slowly building his lead.

Milan Milanovic of Switzerland won the stage in 7:16:45.

Sergiu Boerica has been hired as Chapman University’s men’s tennis coach, the school announced.

Boerica, a native of Romania, spent a year as an assistant at Cal State Long Beach before the program was disbanded in June 1991. He coached at Los Alamitos High School in 1990 and before that was assistant teaching professional at Tiebreakers Tennis Shop in Beverly Hills.

Boerica replaces Reddy Gustine, who resigned after his second season with the Panthers.

Mara Colaizzi of Newport Beach defeated Michelle Malephansakul of West Covina, 6-0, 6-1, in the finals of the girls’ 18 and under singles division at the 31st Annual Glendora Junior Open Tennis championships.

Sarah Barker of Newport Beach won the girls’ 10 and under singles championship by defeating Aradhana Sarohia of Altadena, 6-0, 6-1.

Herman Ahlers of Dana Point and Bob Duesler of Newport Beach each won in straight sets to advance to today’s semifinals of the U.S. Tennis Assn.’s men’s 55 National Hardcourt singles Championship at the Lindborg Racquet Club in Huntington Beach.

Lenny Lindborg of South Laguna won quarterfinal doubles matches in both the 50 and 55 divisions. Duesler and Jim Nelson of Newport Beach teamed for a victory in the men’s 55 doubles.

Bob Lutz of San Clemente will face Sandy Mayer in a first-round match of the Pacific Southwest Invitational senior tennis tournament at 1 p.m. today at the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA.

Lutz won 44 professional doubles titles and was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team for eight years.

Joy Burkholder, competing for the Mission Viejo Nadadores, qualified for the U.S. Championships by finishing fourth in the women’s three-meter springboard event at the Zone D Senior Outdoor Diving Preliminaries at USC.

The top four finishers qualify for the U.S. Outdoor Championships, held Aug. 12-16 in Woodlands, Tex.

Tyce Routson was the Nadadores’ top finisher in the men’s one-meter springboard event, finishing ninth. Ricky Wood of Simi Valley won the men’s competition with 492.85 points.

Nicole Erickson of Brea-Olinda High scored 15 points to help Los Angeles-based Dynasty beat Tennessee, 75-50, to reach the championship round of the AAU girls’ 15-and-under National Basketball tournament, in Amarillo, Tex.

Dynasty will play Oregon today in the finals of the double-elimination tournament, and must win to force a second game.

Mark Trakh, the girls’ basketball coach at Brea-Olinda, is the co-coach of Dynasty with Joe Perry of Long Beach. Sarah Beckley of Brea-Olinda and Karun Grossman of Dana Hills also play on the squad.