No sweat(shirt): Miller, Pats reign at NSC meet
Stevenson junior Stephanie Miller, as fun-loving and animated as they come, yelled at an inanimate object at Friday’s North Suburban Conference girls golf meet in chilly, windy Lake Forest.
The object of her detest at Deerpath Golf Course: her own sweatshirt, worn underneath her rain jacket.
“I could hardly move, wearing all that,” the reigning Class 2A state champion said. “I felt like a snowman. So I took the sweatshirt off, after my drive on 8.
“I told it, ‘I won’t be needing you anymore!’ ”
What Stevenson’s Patriots really needed on Friday, in addition to Miller’s medalist round of 3-over 75: Katie Pepping’s 99, the Pats’ No. 3 score.
Pepping is normally Stevenson’s No. 7 scorer.
“When I woke up today, I did not feel like playing,” admitted Pepping, a senior who made a 30-foot putt on No. 12. “It was dark and windy, and I was tired.”
Good thing Pepping played. Stevenson (366) won its fifth straight NSC championship — by 1 stroke, ahead of Libertyville. Lake Forest placed third (373).
The meet started Tuesday morning, before heavy rains halted play after some of the players had completed as many as seven holes.
Miller, now the conference’s two-time reigning champ, was 1-under after six holes Tuesday.
“She shot lights out on Tuesday,” Pats coach Andy Conneen recalled on Friday. “She wanted to stay out there, and she would have ... had she been able to build an ark.”
A pair of Libertyville Wildcats, Camilla Ou and Darinka Sutic, shot 87s.
Sutic worked on her drives before Friday’s action.
“I wanted to take advantage of the par 3s,” she said. “Tee shots, on those, are crucial. The work paid off.”
The world’s No. 1 men’s tennis player is Novak Djokovic, of Serbia.
What in the world is Djokovic’s name doing in a prep girls golf piece?
One of his cousins is none other than Sutic.
Sutic’s best shot, in tennis?
“My forehand,” she said. “It’s not bad.”
Mundelein took 382 strokes, finishing fourth behind three all-NSC (top 15) performers. Courteney Fabbri shot a 94 (10th-place tie), and Mustangs Holly Gotlund and Hannah Thompson each carded a 95.
Scores from Nikki Marquardt (90, seventh) and Anna Kaszuba (102) also counted for Stevenson.
Erin Walker’s 91 (eighth) paced Warren (fifth, 393); Lauren Groody (94) led Vernon Hills (sixth, 397); and Wauconda’s Annette Yandall — the Bulldogs’ lone competitor — shot a sixth-place 89.
Lake Forest’s Becca Scribner (85) finished runner-up.