{"id":304148,"date":"2026-10-11T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304148\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:08:10","slug":"golf-takes-third-at-desales-fall-classic-sets-team-record-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304148\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Takes Third at DeSales Fall Classic; Sets Team Record in First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 New Tripoli, PA (October 10, 2026) &#8211; The DeSales University golf team posted a two-day score of 611 to take home third place in the DeSales Fall Classic on Friday and Saturday at Olde Homestead Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs set a new team record with a team score of 303 in the opening round on Friday. It is the lowest team score in an 18-hole round in team history.\u00a0 DSU shot just five shots worse on Saturday with a 308 to take home third place by six shots.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way over the two days was first-year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.desales.edu\/sports\/golf\/roster\/mason-rush\/8608\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8608\" target=\"_blank\">Mason Rush<\/a>\u00a0who posted rounds of 77 and 76 to finish 9-over. Rush had two birdies in each of his two rounds.<\/p>\n<p>First-year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.desales.edu\/sports\/golf\/roster\/isaac-mattern\/8607\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8607\" target=\"_blank\">Isaac Mattern<\/a>\u00a0and sophomore\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.desales.edu\/sports\/golf\/roster\/matthew-smith\/8154\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8154\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Smith<\/a>\u00a0both finished 10-over for the two days as Mattern fired rounds of 77 on each day, making three total birdies, and Smith had rounds of 74 and 80, also making three total birdies.<\/p>\n<p>Junior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.desales.edu\/sports\/golf\/roster\/peter-mcginley\/8150\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8150\" target=\"_blank\">Peter McGinley<\/a>\u00a0had rounds of 75 and 81, with his 75 featuring three birdies, and junior\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/athletics.desales.edu\/sports\/golf\/roster\/dylan-carfara\/8151\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8151\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Carfara<\/a>\u00a0fired a second round 75 with two birdies.<\/p>\n<p>DSU rounds out the fall season competing at the Lebaon Valley College Fall Invitational on October 26th.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; New Tripoli, PA (October 10, 2026) &#8211; The DeSales University golf team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-304148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}