HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, FL – It was a dramatic morning on Thursday at the NCAA Division III Golf Championship at the Mission Inn Resort, as the University of Rochester golf team closed out its second round of play, hoping for a spot inside the cut line, making the top-18 teams.
 
Sophomore Alvin Su ended Wednesday's round on the fringe in two shots at the 18th green at the Las Colinas Golf Club. Needing to get up-and-down from about 70 feet away, Su came up clutch for the Yellowjackets and sank the birdie to move URochester into a tie with Transylvania University for the final spot inside the cutline.
 
Up next was a best 4-of-5 score team playoff on the 18th hole at the El Campeon Golf Course, where the final two rounds of the tournament will be played. In the playoff, Transylvania emerged victorious, securing the final team berth into the third and fourth rounds of the national tournament.
 
Rochester ended its third straight NCAA appearance at 26-over-par, tying for 18th place. The 'Jackets team score was 598 overall, with the team shooting a second round score of 295 at Las Colinas.
 
Su's birdie on the final hole of his second round pushed the sophomore to 3-over par, 71 for the round. His total for the tournament was 148, tying for 61st place among the 225-golfer field.
 
Galen Fowles was Rochester's top performer on the second day of the NCAA Championship, shooting one-over, to finish the first two days at five-over-par, matching Su in a tie for 61st. Fowles tallied a pair of birdies on the front nine to shoot an even par, and then added another birdie on the back nine on the par-four 12th hole.
 
Anderson Palm also shot one-over for the round and sits tied with Su in 75th place at six-over (149) through the first two rounds. Palm had a birdie on the front nine and two on the back nine, with an impressive two on the par-3, 195-yard 15th hole.
 
Josh Pethel rounded out Rochester's top four golfers on Wednesday with a six-over score and sits at 14-over for the tournament at 157 strokes. Pethel, who's tied for 164th overall, notched a birdie and seven pars on the front nine and headed into the clubhouse with a 77 score for the day.
 
The 'Jackets' fifth golfer, Arjun Aujla, came in at eight over on the day and 12-over through two rounds, tied for 144th, with one birdie on his scorecard for the day. The junior birdied his opening hole and wrapped up his round with five-straight pars.
 
Illinois Wesleyan sits atop the team leaderboard through two rounds at five-under, one of just three teams under par through two days at the NCAA DIII Championship. Washington & Lee sits in second at two-under-par, with Carnegie Mellon sitting third at one-under. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps' Samson Li joined Su as the only other golfer in the field that needed to finish his second round on Thursday morning.