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LOCAL NOTES : Three County Girls Advance in USGA Junior

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Alicia Allison of Santa Ana, Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza and Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills each won two matches Wednesday at the U.S. Junior girls’ golf championship at Indianapolis.

Allison advanced with a 7 and 5 victory over Jenny Lee of Honolulu, and a 4 and 3 triumph over Diana D’Alessio, Flanders, N.J.

Choi defeated Kelly McCall of Mahopac, N.Y., 7 and 6, and Skyli Yamada of Sandy, Utah, 2 and 1.

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Booth beat Erin McMillan of Alberta, Calif., on the 20th hole and Wendi Patterson of Atlanta, 1 up.

Tiger Woods of Cypress dropped into a tie for the lead after a three-over 73 at the American Junior Golf Assn. boys’ championship at Irving, Tex.

Woods, who entered the second round with a four-shot lead, was tied at 138 with Derek Jackson of Dunwoody, Ga., who had a 65.

Ben Garner of Lake Forest was nine shots off the pace after a 74. Robert Son of Fullerton, Joe Garner of Lake Forest and Paul Hinkle of Costa Mesa did not make the cut.

David Warady of Huntington Beach increased his lead over Tom Rogozinski of Pittsburgh by more than two minutes in the 47th stage of the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace.

Warady completed the 41.35 miles from Newman, Ill., to Rockville, Ind., in 7 hours 2 minutes 44 seconds, and is now 12:35.46 ahead of Rogozinski.

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Claude Doumerc, who led the Huntington Beach High School boys’ volleyball team to the Southern Section 4-A finals last season, has orally committed to Loyola Marymount, Oiler assistant coach Jason Bilbruck said.

The Huntington Beach Outlaws defeated the Levittown (Pa.) Middletown AA Blue Angels, 5-0, and Gordon’s Panthers of Placentia topped the Brandon (Fla.) Bloomingdale Lady Knights, 4-1, in the 16-and-under division of the American Softball Assn. National Championships in Greenwood, Ind.

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