BC3 golfer Loughry second after day one of the National Championship tournament

After a three-hour rain delay held up the first round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III golf national championship tournament, Butler County Community College freshman golfer Troy Loughry bogeyed the par-4 No. 1 hole. The Grove City High School graduate then bogeyed the par-4 No. 2. Loughry then settled his nerves and birdied four of the ensuing five par-5s, finished with a 1-over 73 and is tied for second at Chautauqua Golf Course, where the top 18 golfers after Friday’s final round become All-Americans. Liam Kosior, a BC3 freshman and graduate of Neshannock High, shot an 82. The Pioneers are in sixth place in the national championship tournament among 10 teams with a 335, 40 strokes behind first-place Sandhills.