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Hampshire's Connie (left) and Taylor Ellett line up their putts Wednesday during their match against Genoa-Kingston High School at Oak Club of Genoa in Genoa, Ill. (Beck Diefenbach – Shaw Suburban Media)

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GENOA – The Hampshire girls golf program has been in existence for only three years. After winning their first regional last season, the Whip-Purs are looking for more.

The Whip-Purs’ march toward what would be their first sectional title continued Wednesday as they notched a 185-210 win against Genoa-Kingston in Big Northern Conference play at the Oak Club of Genoa to stay undefeated.

Sisters Taylor and Connie Ellett each shot 4-over-par 40 for Hampshire (14-0, 9-0). Connie Ellett was at even par through the first six holes before finishing with a bogey, double bogey and bogey.

“I started thinking about my score, which you can’t do,” Connie Ellett, a sophomore, said. “Once you do that, you start hitting bad shots, which I did, and finished the way I did.”

Taylor Ellett said that after a bad weekend round, she worked on her game before the match with the Cogs.

“I hit the ball real well. I worked on my game after I only hit one green over the weekend at Elgin, and I hit seven greens [Wednesday],” Taylor Ellett, a junior said. “I didn’t putt very well and made a lot of three-putts. The greens are real tough out here.”

Hampshire coach Sue Ellett, Connie and Taylor’s mother, said that both Connie and Taylor played well.

“I thought 40 was the worst they were going to score, which was encouraging going into the conference meet and the postseason coming up,” Sue Ellett said. “They basically got their lunch handed to them Monday [when both finished seventh at the Elgin Country Club Tournament]. We didn’t play very well, but a little sweat and work on the practice green paid off when we played again.”

With the BNC meet set for Wednesday at Timber Pointe Golf Club in Poplar Grove and the Class AA Regional looming a week later, Sue Ellett said that her golfers needed to keep playing the way they are now.

“I think we’ve got a real good chance,” Ellett said. “We will have to go take care of business Wednesday and get the kids to play within themselves and be consistent. If we can do that, we can add up our score and be a bit better than everyone else.”