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Apollo, PA – Butler County Community College men’s golfer Jacob Marquardt on Tuesday became the lowest-scoring Region 20 medalist in program history, and the undefeated Pioneers qualified for the national championship tournament in western New York with a postseason victory against three teams. BC3 (8-0) captured its seventh National Junior College Athletic Association Division III Region 20 crown with the 36-hole tournament win against the Community College of Allegheny County, Westmoreland County Community College and Pennsylvania Highlands Community College at the Links at Spring Church in Apollo. As the Region 20 champion, the Pioneers earned an automatic berth to the…

Lincoln High School graduate Mitchell Covert fired a round of 83, finishing fourth, to help lead Butler County Community College victory over Jamestown (N.Y.) Community College at Lake Arthur Golf Club in BC3’s spring-season opener last Thursday. BC3 golfer Xander Downing won medalist honor for the fifth time as a Pioneer as BC3 Downing shot a 7-over 79 as BC3 golfers swept the top four places in a 323-394 victory on their home course. BC3’s Jacob Marquardt was second with an 80 and Parker Worsley third with an 81. Jamestown’s Daniel Towell tied BC3’s Jaxon Salata for fifth place with…

No athletics program at Butler County Community College has earned more automatic berths to a national championship tournament than men’s golf, whose teams have advanced to the spring-season pinnacle six times and as recently as 2023. The Pioneers who won a conference title with a 43-stroke victory in the fall return this spring and could become the seventh to reach the four-day competition in June, Pioneers coach Bill Miller said. “It potentially could be as strong as any team we have had,” Miller said. “But they still have to perform and score and do well.” 2024 Lincoln High School graduate…

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…