<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0j8CoG_0visCl6J00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0j8CoG_0visCl6J00" width="480" height="393" ><figcaption>Mendota golfers Brody Hartt (second place), left, and Jonas Fitzgerald (tie for sixth) finished in the top 10 of the Princeton Invitational on Sept. 21. (Photo contributed)</figcaption></figure>Mendota’s freshmen golfers participated in the Three Rivers Conference Freshman Invitational on Sept. 16 at Kewanee. No team scores were kept.Trojan golfer Esten Otero finished second overall in the tournament with a 43, while teammate Ashtyn Stamberger tied for third with a 44. Other Mendota golfers in the field were Corbin Doll (49), Maddox Rosales (53), Kamilah Preciado (57) and Dell Dennis (59).Braydon Oakes of Rockridge was the overall champion with a 38.***The Mendota golfers took on two other teams in a triangular at Princeton’s Chapel Hill on Sept. 17. Riverdale came away with the win, shooting a 149, followed by the Trojans (157) and Princeton (172).Dane Doyle, Grady Jones and Jonas Fitzgerald all turned in rounds of 39 to pace the Trojans. Brody Hartt was one shot off the pace with a 40, while Evan McPheeters (46) and Alex Holland (56) also competed.Riverdale’s Mason Smyser was the medalist with a 34.Mendota claimed the win in the junior varsity competition with a 174. Princeton and Riverdale both had a 192.Otero led the way for the Trojans with a 42, which was good enough for meet medalist honors. Nick Sheridan, Kooper Novak and Rosales all checked in with 44s, while Collin Coss (47) and Stamberger (48) completed the MHS lineup.***Mendota went up against two other Three Rivers Conference foes and came out a winner in varsity and junior varsity action on Sept. 19 at Kewanee. The Trojan varsity squad fired a 177 to beat out Kewanee (192) and Sherrard (196).Hartt carded a 39 to earn meet medalist honors. Other MHS golfers contributing to the team score were Fitzgerald with a 44, and Doyle and Jones both with 47s. Holland (49) and McPheeters completed the lineup.Mendota downed Sherrard, 191-234, in the junior varsity meet.Rosales had the low score for the Trojans with a 45, while Coss was one shot back. Also hitting the links for the JV team were Otero (50), Novak (50), Sheridan (53) and Stamberger (57).***The Trojans finished second in the nine-team Princeton Invitational on Sept. 21 at Chapel Hill. Mendota had a score of 352, while Hall won the event with a 330. Other schools competing were Princeton (354), Newman (363), LaSalle-Peru (367), Rock Falls (376), Sherrard (395), Kewanee (424) and Chillicothe IVC (426). Hall’s Landen Plym was the individual champion with a 72.Mendota had two top 10 finalists – Hartt in second place with an 82 and Fitzgerald tied for sixth with an 87. Also participating for the Trojans were Doyle (89), Jones (94), McPheeters (108) and Holland (109).***Mendota competed in the Three Rivers Conference meet on Sept. 23 at Sherrard. The. Trojans finished in seventh place with a 377. The top six teams were Riverdale (316), Hall (334), Princeton (343), Erie (352), Mercer County (356) and Rockridge (359).Doyle had the low score for MHS with an 88. Hartt followed with a 92, while Holland (98), Jones (99), Fitzgerald (100) and McPheeters (106) also played for the Trojans.Aidan Dorathy of Riverdale was the individual champion with a 70, four strokes better than Hall’s Landen Plym.</div></body>

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Mendota’s freshmen golfers participated in the Three Rivers Conference Freshman Invitational on Sept. 16 at Kewanee. No team scores were kept. Trojan golfer Esten Otero finished second overall in the tournament with a 43, while teammate Ashtyn Stamberger tied for third with a 44. Other Mendota golfers in the field were Corbin Doll (49), Maddox Rosales (53), Kamilah Preciado (57) and Dell Dennis (59).