Boys Swimming: Tigers cruise by South 99-58

Evan Carufel 1st in diving and 200 medley relay (photo by Jim Lindquist)

The Battle of the Tigers turned out to be a mismatch as Farmington used its superior talent and depth to score a one-sided 99-58 non-conference dual meet win over Minneapolis South Thursday night at the Dodge Middle School pool.

"It was another good opportunity for our boys to compete in our pool," Tiger coach Ryan Hamen siid, "and fun to go up against another Tiger team....South doesn't have a very large team and has a lot of new swimmers."

Farmington put the meet away early by winning the first eight events and scoring 1-2-3 finishes in five of them. Farmington swam the last four eevnts of the night as exhibitions with no points earned.

Four Farmington performers were multiple winners: Oliver Chow, 200 medley relay and 100 butterfly; Evan Carufel, one-meter diving and 200 medley relay: Austin Kueck, 200 individual medley and 500 freestyle and Christopher Kirchmann, 50 and 100 freestyle.

Top three Farmington finishers versus Minneapolis South
200 medley relay: 1. Oliver Chow, Nick Stephan, Brandon Dion, Evan Carufel
200 freestyle: 1. Aaron Cochnauer; 2. Cameron Molnar; 3. Dan Berg
200 individual medley: 1. Austin Kueck; 2. Stephan; 3. Garrett Haugen
50 freestyle: 1. Christopher Kirchmann; 3. Eric Schimmel
One-meter diving: 1. Evan Carufel; 2. Jonathan Bovee; 3. Sean Dougherty
100 butterfly: 1. Chow; 2. Cochnauer; 3. Dion
100 freestyle: 1. Kirchmann; 3. Schimmel
500 freestyle: 1. Kueck; 2. Alex Garofalo; 3. Adam Dougherty