Riverside Brookfield High School junior Harper Jesswein hoped to contend for the individual title at the Upstate Eight Conference Meet Sept. 23. She and the Bulldogs more than rose to the occasion. Jesswein finished second with a 12-over-par 84 while the Bulldogs’ 370 impressively won the team title by 13 strokes at St. Andrews in West Chicago.
“Throughout the meet I did know I was in the hunt for the title and when I realized that, I honestly got in my head more about my score so I didn’t help by performance,” Jesswein said.
She still finished just two strokes behind the medalist, U46 sophomore Lexi Albertson (82). RBHS junior Fiona Lombardi was fourth (91) and junior Lily Martin (94) tied for fifth and awarded sixth on a scorecard tiebreaker, followed by sophomore Nicole Robertson (101, tied for 12th), senior Nikki Ritacca (105), juniors Ana Bacik (107) and Elly Dickerson (112) and senior Alexis Busse (125)…