Los Alamitos Receiver Hartley Picks Oregon

Los Alamitos wide receiver Tony Hartley, The Times Orange County back of the year, will attend Oregon this fall, Griffin Coach John Barnes said Monday.

Barnes said the Griffins’ other standout senior receiver, Stan Guyness, will attend USC. Guyness, who began the season considered the West’s top wide receiver, finished with 42 catches for 967 yards and 11 touchdowns.

Hartley smashed county career and single-season county records in 1995, helping the Griffins to an 11-2 record. He caught 86 passes for 1,687 yards. The yardage is a county single-season record, and the receptions tied him for second with Capistrano Valley’s David Poltl.

Including his 13 touchdowns as a junior he has 28 for his career, third most by a receiver. And he leaves Los Alamitos as the county’s all-time receiving yardage leader with 3,178.

The decision was easy, said Hartley, who talked with UCLA coaches and traveled to Kansas State and California before visiting Oregon. It was so easy he canceled planned trips to Michigan and Notre Dame.

“I felt more comfortable with [Oregon] than I did the other schools,” said Hartley, who plans to study communications. “I spent a long time talking with their receiving coaches, and the things they were looking for and the things that were installed in me at Los Al were the same.”