Dominic Frassinelli of Allentown won the 23^rd Edward P. Zemprelli Collegiate Shootout, his second title in three years, shooting a one-round 70 on the Hershey Country Club’s East Course.

Frassenelli, a senior at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, who also won the Collegiate Shootout in 2006, won this year’s scholarship event by one stroke over Darryn Deshong of Chambersburg and Cory Stelick of Groton, N.Y., both of whom shot rounds of 71. Deshong is a junior at Millersville University of Pennsylvania and Stelick is junior at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Twelve collegiate golfers from 10 Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities, Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh competed in the 18-hole event as prelude to the 24^th annual Bob Burgess-Thomas McCormac charity golf outing. The top three finishers earned a total of $7,000 in scholarships for their schools.

Frassenelli earned $3,000 for his university’s general scholarship fund with the victory. The universities of each of the two second-place finishers will receive $2,000 in scholarship funds.

Rounding out the top five scorers were Victoria Arena of Lansdale, a freshman at Penn State, and Jared Schmeder of Cooperstown, a freshman at Clarion University of Pennsylvania, both of whom shot 74.

Other participants in this year’s event were Eric Linder of Lansdale, a junior at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania; Eric Smith of Lancaster, a sophomore at California University of Pennsylvania; Brandin Deets of Titusville, a junior at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Krista Tressler of Fayetteville, a junior at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; Jonathan Kresge of Lock Haven, a junior at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania; Trey M. Mallicone of Shippensburg, a senior at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania; and Frank Colwell of Apollo, a senior at Pitt.

The Burgess-McCormac charity golf outing has been held each year since 1985. Since its inception, the event has raised more than $2 million for various charities and charitable organizations, including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research and the Penn State Medical Center Children’s Hospital project.

The annual outing began as a memorial to Bob Burgess, a government relations specialist for Beneficial Financial Management. He and a daughter, Pamela, died in an automobile accident in 1983. The event was renamed in 2002 to also memorialize Thomas McCormac, a government relations specialist with Pugliese Associates. McCormac died in an automobile accident in 2001.

In addition to the three scholarships for which the student golfers compete, the Burgess-McCormac Memorial Foundation, which operates the event, also contributes a separate $3,000 scholarship each year to Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, where Pamela Burgess had been a student.

With more than 110,000 students, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth.The 14 PASSHE universities offer degree and certificate programs in more than 120 areas of study. Approximately 405,000 PASSHE alumni live and work in Pennsylvania.

The state-owned universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock, and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania. PASSHE also operates branch campuses in Clearfield, Freeport, Oil City and Punxsutawney and several regional centers, including the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg.