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Piper Stenzel, Seneca girls golf capture Class 1A regional championships · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Piper Stenzel Seneca Girls Golf Capture Class 1A Regional Championships. Written
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  by Brian Hoxsey This article is being read by an automated voice
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  brought to you by Everlett. Seneca senior Piper Stenzel gave a little
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  shrug of the shoulders when asked about her round at Tuesday's Class
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  1 A Seneca Regional at the creek in Morris. I definitely could
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  have posted a lower score today, Stenzel said. Looking back, I had
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  a lot of shots that I wished I'd hit better. I had
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  some putts that I normally make that I didn't. It was a
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  little bit of a frustrating round because I wasn't playing like I
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  wanted to, but I thought I did a good job of letting
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  bad shots go and moved on. Stenzel, a three-time state qualifier, carded
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  an 85 to win the individual title and helped the Fighting Irish
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  win the team title with a score of 381. I've been struggling
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  a lot with my drives all season, just way too off and
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  on. Today was an on day, things clicked, and I'm pretty happy
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  with almost all of my drives. I was able to keep myself
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  in the fairway off the T, which was good. I'm just really
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  happy that we won as a team and that we are going
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  to keep playing next week. Seneca, along with runner up Mantino 416,
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  and third place Joliet Catholic 428, advanced to Monday's St. Viator sectional
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  at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect. Fourth place went to
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  Coal City, 446, followed by Bishop McNamara, 470, Sandwich,
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  473, Reed, Kuster, 489, Beecher, 490 Sun, St. Anne,
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  535, Marquette, 544, and Sominok, 641, who did not
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  advance. The Irish also received counting scores from Josie Mitchell, 95 second
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  individually, Aime Paquette, 100 and Vivian Cronkrite, 101. The
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  Panthers were led by sophomore Olivia Bukowski's fifth place score of 99,
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  followed by Genevive Kasnika, 102, Ava Fandoukian 104, and Palmer Payne
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  111. Was happy with my short game, both chipping and pudding, Bukowski
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  said. I I don't hit the ball off the tees as far
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  as a lot of the other girls. It's important for me to
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  be pretty good on and around the greens to kind of make
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  up for that. I was able to save myself a few times
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  today with my putter. I also feel like I handle the mental
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  part of the game pretty well, which when you get to this
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  point, you have to just let the bad shots go and move
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  on. My first nine holes today, weren't great, but I just told
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  myself the last nine would be better, and they were. I just
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  didn't lose confidence in myself. Hilltopper's senior Jenny Leonard carded a 98-tie
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  for third. JCA also received counting scores from Katie Rosassa, 102, Claire
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  Blasgan, 105, and Skylar Kerwin, 123. I feel I drove the ball
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  really well today, Leonard said. That's the part of my game that
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  to be honest can be really good or really bad. I just
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  haven't been as consistent this year with my driver as I could,
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  have liked, but today was a good day. I didn't get off
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  to a great start, but then after the first few holes I
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  started to play better. I did get a little tired in the
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  final few holes and had a couple of bad shots, but overall
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  I'm happy with how I played. I came into today really just
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  wanting to play as well as I could and I'd never shot
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  under a 100 before on 18 holes, so now I finally did.
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  I’m excited about that. Golfers advancing to the sectional as individuals include
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  Sandwich Junior Kendall Petray 98 Illinois Lutherans Julia Jacobucci 102
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  Bishop McNamara's Anna McTaggart 104 and Rea Di Polo 109 Beecher's
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  Fiona Hagen Storbeck 106 Cole City's Audrina Nugent 108 and Livia Saltzberger
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  111 Wilmington's Nina Igizio 108 St. Anne's Haley Barrens 108
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  and Reed Custer's Caitlin Lanka 110 I actually came into today wanting
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  to shoot around 110, so I'm really really excited with how I
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  did, P Trace said. I also wanted to break 50 on 9
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  holes and I did that on the front nine. This was easily
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  the best round I've ever played. I was able to not only
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  drive the ball pretty far, but also keep it in the fair
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  way. My drives really helped put me in good positions to put
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  my second or third shots near the pin. Unfortunately my putting wasn't
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  wasn't as good as I would have liked it to be. I
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  was either hitting past the cup or leaving the ball way too
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  short. I would have had an even better score if I'd put
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  it a little better.