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- 0:05Plainfield North girls golf Cup continues historic season with second regional title.
- 0:11Written by Skylar Casellus. This article is being read by an automated
- 0:16voice brought to you by Everlett. Plainfield North made history last week
- 0:22when it captured its first Southwest Prairie Conference girls golf title. The
- 0:27Tigers added another milestone Tuesday to what has arguably been the best
- 0:31season in program history. Plainfield North shot a 314-at-Wedgewood Golf Course
- 0:38to win the Class 2A Plainfield Central Regional, claiming its second regional
- 0:43championship and first since 2015. The
- 0:46Tigers, beat runner-up Manookah 362 by 48 strokes, while Yorkville
- 0:52took third with a seasoned best 365. I'm so proud of these
- 0:58girls, Plainfield North Coach Matt Meendel said. It's just been a testament
- 1:02to all the work we've put in this season, and it's a
- 1:04lot of fun. In another first for the Tigers, all six golfers
- 1:09shot ninety or better and placed among the top twelve individually. Freshman
- 1:14Chloe Lee led the way, firing a three under par 68 to
- 1:18finish as the individual runner-up. Kylie Sanborn shot 78 to take fourth,
- 1:23and Annie Holverson carted an 82 to finish seventh. Brooke Ellinghouse and
- 1:28Emily Sullivan had matching scores of 86, and Alasia Haynes rounded out
- 1:32the lineup with an 88. It definitely puts us in the upper
- 1:36echelon amongst all the golf teams in 2A, especially the ones that
- 1:40we've seen down at state, Mendel said. For us to be able
- 1:43to hold our own and compete with elite programs like that speaks
- 1:46volumes. While Plainfield North dominated the team standings, Oswego co-op's Ali Vertel
- 1:52continued a decorated season. Wertel shot a five under sixty-six to win
- 1:57the individual regional title, finishing two strokes ahead of Lee. The junior
- 2:01didn't hit over par at any point and birdied holes one, two,
- 2:05six, eleven, and eighteen. I feel like I was hitting my driver
- 2:09pretty well today, Wertel said. I was getting to a lot of
- 2:13the holes in two on the par fives and just putting myself
- 2:16in position to make birdies. Because of new Issa rules, Aswigo Co
- 2:21op competed only as individuals in the regional. The team still had
- 2:25three golfers finish in the top five, with Giselle Recendez taking third
- 2:29with a seventy five and Mallory Palstenbach tying for fifth with an
- 2:32eighty one. Evelina Vaccaro and Evelyn Birchfield both shot 98, tying with
- 2:38LaSalle Perou's Charlie Sluserec for the final two individual qualifying spots and
- 2:43forcing a sudden death playoff. Vacaro secured her spot with a par
- 2:48on the first hole, and Birchfield snagged the final spot with a
- 2:51bogey on the second. I'm excited for their opportunity, Oswego coach Steve
- 2:57Tubman said. They've put in the hard work throughout the entire off
- 3:00season in preparation for this year, and now they're going to come
- 3:04out and put a good showing, hopefully, at the sectional. The five
- 3:08Oswego Co-op individual qualifiers will be accompanied by Plainfield South's Grace Brown,
- 3:13LP's Maggie Bumgarner, Sterling Tony Martinez, and Plainfield Central's Kayleigh Edelman and
- 3:19Mackenzie Listerman. They will join the top three team finishers. Plainfield North,
- 3:24Minuca, and Yorkville, at Monday's Normal West Sectional at Ironwood Golf Course.
- 3:30We're up for the challenge and ready to do as best as
- 3:33we can, Mindel said. LP took fourth in the regional with a
- 3:37390, while host Plainfield Central finished fifth at 401. Sterling, 404,
- 3:44finished sixth, Bradley Bourbonet 430, 7th, Plainfield South, 472, 8th
- 3:50and Ottawa, 474-9th. Kankakee had one individual compete, Shayla Jordan, who finished
- 3:5640th with a 105.