PENN STATE ALTOONA WINS SECOND STRAIGHT AMCC MEN'S GOLF TITLE
Penn State Altoona men's golf successfully defended its Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title, as the Lions won the conference for the second year in a row with a first-place finish in the AMCC Championships at The Club at Nevillewood.
Penn State Altoona men's golf successfully defended its Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title, as the Lions won the conference for the second year in a row with a first-place finish in the AMCC Championships at The Club at Nevillewood.
Leading by 11 shots after Monday's round, Penn State Altoona expanded its margin to 25 during the second and final day of the tournament on Tuesday, shooting 324 to finish in first place out of seven teams. The championship win is Penn State Altoona's seventh in program history, and it gives the team the AMCC's automatic bid to compete in the NCAA Division III Championships in May in Kentucky.
Penn State Altoona compiled a two-day score of 651 to finish atop the seven-team pack of AMCC competitors. Mount Aloysius College was the conference runner-up, finishing with a combined score of 676, and Pitt-Bradford placed third with 695. Penn State Behrend (fourth place, 704), Hilbert College (fifth place, 707), La Roche University (sixth place, 749), and Pitt-Greensburg (seventh place, 799) filled the bottom four spots on the team leaderboard.
The Lions' Trey Heffelfinger won the AMCC individual title by nine shots, putting together a two-round score of 150 to place first out of 34 total golfers. Heffelfinger shot an even-par 72 on Tuesday for the lowest round of any individual in either day of the tournament.
The Lion's Jack DiTrani took the AMCC individual runner-up spot, placing second among all conference golfers with a two-day score of 159 after shooting 81 in Tuesday's round. The Mounties' Luke Melisko carded a 79 on day one and an 82 on day two, with a final score of 161, good for third place. Penn State Altoona's Joey Toth shaved five strokes off of his first-round score, firing 80 on Tuesday to finish with a two-day score of 165 that put him in fourth place on the individual leaderboard.
Penn State Altoona has earned the AMCC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championships for the second straight year. This year's championships are set for May 16-19 at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, KY.
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