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Butler County Community College men’s golfers Friday won the program’s fourth consecutive team title, the Pioneers’ Jacob Marquardt captured BC3’s fourth individual crown in a row and Lincoln High School graduate Mitchell Covert finished second only after edging the 2023 champion in a sudden-death playoff following regulation play in the postseason tournament. The Pioneers placed first with a two-round 621 and Westmoreland County Community College second with a 664 in the Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference championship tournament at the Links at Spring Church in Apollo. Covert shot an 82 on Thursday and a 74 on Friday – the lowest single-round…

The deepest roster he has had in two decades as Butler County Community College’s coach made it difficult, Bill Miller said, to select the six golfers who this week will contend for the program’s fourth conference championship in a row and 10th in the past 11 seasons. Lincoln High School graduate Mitchell Covert will be among the six. “It was tough, very tough,” Miller said. “I wanted to take all eight. They have all given a great effort. All very deserving. But I can take only six.” The Pioneers’ Jacob Marquardt, Xander Downing, Kaden Rentz, Mitchell Covert, Parker Worsley and…