Lycoming News

BOULDER CITY, Nev. — Penn College's Peyton Mussina is tied for 10th place among 96 players at the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship after three rounds of play. Mussina shot a 75 on Thursday following his best consecutive rounds earlier in the week, which had him tied for second.

Mussina started strong in the third round at Boulder Creek Golf Club, a par 72, 7,377-yard course, with birdies on the first two holes. However, he encountered difficulties with a bogey on the third hole and a double-bogey on the fourth. He then stabilized his game with four pars before finishing the front nine with another bogey for a score of 2-over 38.

The back nine saw Mussina struggle again with a double-bogey on hole 11 but managed to recover slightly with pars and a birdie at hole 13. He concluded his round with scores of bogey, par, birdie on the long 608-yard hole 16, and two pars to finish at 3-over for the day and an overall total of 212. This places him five strokes behind the leaders heading into Friday's final round.

Brett Viator from Huntingdon College and Mike O'Sullivan from Oglethorpe are currently leading individually with scores of 207 each.

In team standings, Carnegie-Mellon is ahead in the field of eighteen teams with an overall score of 849, just one stroke above Methodist University and Redlands.

The championship will conclude on Friday at Boulder Creek Golf Club.