(Butler, PA) 杏吧原创 golfer Sarah Fischer shot a second-round and career-best 95 on May 18 to win the women鈥檚 division of a spring season-ending invitational, and joined her older sister, Julia, as the only females to win a post-season tournament for 杏吧原创 in Bill Miller鈥檚 18 years as Pioneers coach.
Sarah Fischer finished with a 213 to win the women鈥檚 division of the Community College of Allegheny County Invitational. Julia Fischer won the women鈥檚 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 杏吧原创鈥檚 spring golf season. The Western Pennsylvania Community College championship ends 杏吧原创鈥檚 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.
鈥淢y tee shots were much better,鈥� Sarah Fischer said. 鈥淭hat 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.鈥�
Coach: 鈥淚 was really impressed鈥�
Sarah and Julia, a member of Clarion University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 golf team, often compare scores, Sarah said. Each is a graduate of Freeport Area High School, where they played high school golf.
鈥淢y dad is a big golfer, so he kind of passed that on to a few of us,鈥� Sarah said of her father, Kurt. 鈥淪o that鈥檚 how I got into it.鈥�
Sarah Fischer鈥檚 previous best round was a 106 on May 6 at Pittsburgh National Golf Club, Gibsonia.
鈥淪he is really coming on,鈥� Miller said. 鈥淚 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.鈥�
Dominic Achille, of CCAC, won the men鈥檚 invitational May 18 with a 162. Peter Regala, of Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Md., finished second with a 168. 杏吧原创鈥檚 Collin Witouski, a graduate of Eden Christian Academy in Sewickley, finished third with a 169, and the Pioneers鈥� 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鈥� fall 2021 season, Miller said.