HARRISBURG, Pa. - The Hood College golf team matched its season-best and the fifth-best score in school history with a 330 at the Messiah College Spring Classic.

Michael Bushman (North Potomac, Md. / Quince Orchard), one week after shooting a school-record 74, led the Blazers with a 78. He tied for 11th on the par-72, 6,618-yard course at Blue Ridge Country Club. 

Hood's next three golfers finished within three strokes of one another. Joe Hutchins (Eldersburg, Md. / Liberty) carded his best round of the season with an 83 to finish tied for 42nd. One stroke back in a tie for 45th was Andy Baker (Boyds, Md. / Poolesville). Harry Shultz's (Hanover, Pa. / Hanover Senior) 85 tied him for 49th.

Jonathan Knehans (Ridgecrest, Calif. / Burroughs) rounded out the Blazers with a 96 in 71st place.

Hood was 10th in the 15-team field. Among the teams behind the Blazers in the standings were Commonwealth Conference foes Lebanon Valley (341, 12th) and Alvernia (362, 14th). 

Franklin & Marshall won the team scoring with a total of 300. The Diplomats' Harry Richards shot an even-par 72 to claim the individual title.

Hood wraps up the season at the Commonwealth Conference Championships on April 25-26 at Hershey Country Club.