(Butler, PA) Butler County Community College golfer Sarah Fischer shot a second-round and career-best 95 on May 18 to win the women’s division of a spring season-ending invitational, and joined her older sister, Julia, as the only females to win a post-season tournament for BC3 in Bill Miller’s 18 years as Pioneers coach.
Sarah Fischer finished with a 213 to win the women’s division of the Community College of Allegheny County Invitational. Julia Fischer won the women’s division of the Western Pennsylvania Community College championship in October 2018 with a two-round 193.
Each tournament was played at the par-72 The Links at Spring Church in Apollo.
The Community College of Allegheny County Invitational ended BC3’s spring golf season. The Western Pennsylvania Community College championship ends BC3’s fall golf season.
Sarah Fischer shaved 23 strokes off her first-round 118 at the invitational. She shot par on four of her first six holes and finished with seven pars in the second round, Miller said.
“My tee shots were much better,” Sarah Fischer said. “That really helped the rest of my game. Most of my shots in round one went off to the right, so I got stuck in trees a lot. In the second round, they all went straight. So I avoided trees.”
Coach: “I was really impressed”
Sarah and Julia, a member of Clarion University of Pennsylvania’s golf team, often compare scores, Sarah said. Each is a graduate of Freeport Area High School, where they played high school golf.
“My dad is a big golfer, so he kind of passed that on to a few of us,” Sarah said of her father, Kurt. “So that’s how I got into it.”
Sarah Fischer’s previous best round was a 106 on May 6 at Pittsburgh National Golf Club, Gibsonia.
“She is really coming on,” Miller said. “I was really impressed, and the other coaches and the other teams were too. She hit the ball straight in the fairways and her approaches to the greens with her irons were excellent.”
Dominic Achille, of CCAC, won the men’s invitational May 18 with a 162. Peter Regala, of Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Md., finished second with a 168. BC3’s Collin Witouski, a graduate of Eden Christian Academy in Sewickley, finished third with a 169, and the Pioneers’ Jake Cuny, a Butler Area Senior High graduate, fourth with a 171.
Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, also competed in the invitational.
Sarah Fischer and Witouski will return for the Pioneers’ fall 2021 season, Miller said.
