LOCAL NOTES : Roditi’s Doubles Team Loses in Boys’ 18 Final

David Roditi of San Clemente and Ross Loel of La Costa were two games away from a national title and a wild-card berth in the U.S. Open. Then their more experienced opponents, Adam Guskey and Vincent Spadea, took control.

Guskey of North Miami Beach, Fla., and Spadea of Bacon Raton regrouped for a 6-7 (7-4), 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) after trailing 4-1 in the final set of the U.S. Tennis Assn. boys’ 18 doubles final Thursday at Kalamazoo, Mich.

“I still think we should have won,” Roditi said. “We had them in the third set, but we just couldn’t come up with the shots. The difference in the points they won was experience. They don’t go to school and (they) travel to international tournaments and play tennis all the time.

Roditi, who will begin college at Texas Christian next week, viewed his time at the tournament as generally a positive one.

“I’m really happy the way we played this tournament,” Roditi said. “I’ll never forget this match and the whole time on center court in front of all these people. The thing that hurts the most is (missing out on) the wild card into the U.S. Open. Our whole point was wanting that wild card.”

Jakub Peitrowski of Huntington Beach was eliminated by Robert Tedesco of Locust Valley, N.Y. 6-3, 6-1, in a fourth-round match of the boys’ 16 tournament at Kalamazoo.

Amy Fruhwirth, a Cypress High graduate and the defending tournament champion, advanced to the quarterfinals with two victories at the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Long Grove, Ill.

Fruhwirth, a Phoenix resident, defeated Caterina Quintarelli of Italy, 1-up, and Tonya Gill of Stone Mountain, Ga., 6 and 5.

Fruhwirth, who barely made the cut for match play, birdied three consecutive holes on the back nine to finish off Gill.

“I was worried after the qualifying round,” said Fruhwirth, who will turn professional after the event. “But I was able to rally back. Being the defending champ, I felt a little pressure. But I’m comfortable now. My confidence is back.”

She will play 1973 winner Carol Semple-Thompson, 55, of Sewickley, Pa., this morning. The winner will play either Vicki Goetze of Watkinsville, Ga., the 1989 Women’s Amateur champion, or Tracy Hanson of Rathdrum, Idaho, the 1991 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links champion, in the semifinals this afternoon.

The 36-hole final is scheduled Saturday.

Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills took individual medalist honors with a 12-over-par 222 as a team from Southern California took second in the annual Girls Junior Americas Cup at Escondido.

Choi, 17, had two birdies and a 38 on the front, then had four birdies on the back. She hit the pin on a chip out of the bunker on 18, finishing with a one-under 69.

Choi said it was her second-best round ever, next to a six-under 67 at Lakewood Country Club at a Southern California Junior Golf Assn. tournament.

Susie Park of Buena Park finished with a 20-over 230.

David Warady of Huntington Beach finished the 55th stage of the Runner’s World Trans America footrace in eighth place and saw his overall lead slip to 15 hours 13 minutes 59 seconds. There are nine stages remaining before the runners reach the finish line in New York’s Central Park.

Tom Rogozinski, running near his hometown of Pittsburgh, won Thursday’s stage, covering the 60.25-mile course from St. Clairsville, Ohio, to Monongahela, Pa., in 9:29:06. Emile Laharrague of France was second in 9:44:30. Warady’s time was 12:43.05.

David R. Simmons of Newport Beach was named the World Cup USA venue executive director for Los Angeles and the Rose Bowl, World Cup USA chairman Alan Rothenberg announced.

Simmons will be the operating and administrative officer representing the World Cup organizing committee in Los Angeles.

A UC Irvine graduate and captain of the school’s volleyball team, Simmons is on the school’s athletic director search committee, Athletic Hall of Fame selection committee and was president of the Athletic Foundation Executive Committee.