LOCAL NOTES : Woods Leads With a 68 at U.S. Junior Amateur

Tiger Woods of Cypress shot 3-under-par 68 in the first round of qualifying play Tuesday in the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Wollaston Golf Club in Milton, Mass.

Woods, the defending champion, is seeking to become the first male to win two U.S. Junior titles. He registered four birdies and a bogey for his round and was the only player to finish under par.

“This is a patient man’s golf course,” he said. “My goal is to shoot 142 (for qualifying). Even par always gets in. Now, I’ve got a little cushion.”

Chad Wright, 16, of Ventura, was closest to Woods with 72. Thirty-nine players shot 79 or better.

About 150 golfers, who must be 17 or younger, will play a second round of stroke play Wednesday before the field is trimmed to the low 64 scorers for match play. A champion will be crowned Saturday.

Alicia Allison of Santa Ana shot two-over 74 to take the lead after the first day of the McDonald’s Betsy Rawls girls’ national golf championships in Wilmington, Del.

Kellee Booth of Coto de Caza was tied for sixth in the tightly bunched field, two shots back at 76 on the 6,015-yard course at the Hercules Country Club.

Eunice Choi of Laguna Hills shot a 78, Susie Park of Buena Park shot an 82 and Colleen McGough of Huntington Beach an 86 in the first round of the American Junior Golf Assn. tournament, which continues through Thursday.

Rob Kish of Port Orange, Fla., and Bob Forney of Denver have started to pulled away from the rest of the field in the men’s division of Race Across America, which started Friday in Irvine.

Kish passed Vernon, Tex., at 5:13 p.m. (PDT). The town is 1,582 miles into the race. Forney, the two-time defending champion, is 1 hour 21 minutes behind Kish, who has finished second the past two years.

Paul Solon of San Francisco, who was second Monday, dropped out of the race because of bronchial pneumonia.

Seana Hogan of San Jose continues to dominate the women’s race, holding a 200-mile lead. She passed through Shamrock, Tex., at 5:36 p.m., 1,458 miles into the race.

Tom Rogozinski of Pittsburgh won his fifth consecutive stage in the Runner’s World Trans America Footrace. Rogozinski ran the 48.4 miles from Elwood, Kan., to Hamilton, Mo., in 7 hours 13 minutes 30 seconds.

David Warady of Huntington Beach was fourth in the stage and is second overall, 3:11:22 behind Rogozinski. The race ends Aug. 22 in New York.

Dale Bunn, a former Cal State Fullerton assistant football coach, will be the quarterback and receivers coach at Cal State Northridge, the school announced.

Bunn, 35, worked at Fullerton from 1983-90. He also played for the Titans in 1977-78, then played for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. Bunn worked with Northridge Coach Bob Burt from 1983-85 when both were assistants at Fullerton.

Bill Mosiello, who has been an assistant baseball coach at Cal State Fullerton the past two years, has accepted a similar position at Tennessee, Fullerton Coach Augie Garrido said.

Mosiello played at Cerritos College and Fresno State before coming to Fullerton.

Carrie Anne Schwarze, a freshman from Albany, Ore., and Meghan Treese, a junior transfer from Cal State Los Angeles, will compete for the Cal State Fullerton women’s volleyball team this fall.

Schwarze is from South Albany High School, where she was her team’s most valuable player. Treese is from Atholton High School in Columbia, Md.