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Mitchell Covert shot a four-round 335 at Chautauqua Golf Club’s Lake Course in Chautauqua, N.Y. last Friday. Covert and Taylor Voloch ended their careers as Butler County Community College golfers by finishing the 2026 National Junior College Athletic Association Division III championship tournaments with scores lower than they posted in 2025. Covert shot a 474 in 2025. Voloch had a 441 in 2026 after a 474 in 2025. In their first national championship tournaments, BC3 men’s golfer Mason Phillips had a 353 in 2026 and women’s golfer Lean McClellan a 487. Covert, a graduate of Lincoln High School in Ellwood…

Lincoln High School graduate Mitchell Covert on Thursday fired a third-round 6-over 78 to lead three Butler County Community College golfers who shot their lowest scores of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III championship tournaments in Chautauqua, N.Y.   Covert cut nine strokes off his second-round 87 with three birdies and by parring seven holes at Chautauqua Golf Club’s Lake Course.   Taylor Voloch followed 114s with a third-round 108 and BC3 women’s teammate Leah McClellan cut 10 strokes off her score Wednesday with a 110.   Covert’s and Voloch’s scores Thursday were their lowest through seven rounds…

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…