Boys Track: Tigers roll at Red Wing

Justin Hyytinen won 1600 and 3200-meter runs (photo by Jim Lindquist)

Farmington took advantage of the improved weather conditions to pile up 192 points on the way to a convincing win in a four-team meet held Thursday in Red Wing.

The Tigers dominated the quadrangular with New Prague a distant second with 113, followed by Red Wing 80 and Plum, City Wisconsin 53.5.

The meet featured 17 events and the Tigers finished first in 11 of them, eight individual and three relays.

Sophomore distance ace Justin Hyytinen led the way with a pair of wins in the 1600 and 3200 meter runs.

Other Farmington individual runners included Tanner Grubb, 200-meter dash; Tyler Lerbakken, 400-meter dash; Jared Wolt, 800-meter run; Dan Berg, 110-meter hurdles; Nehemiah Rockett, 300-meter hurdles and CJ Wynings, discus.

Tyler Lerbakken 400-meter champ (photo by Jim Lindquist)

Mason Auge, Ryan Parco, Tommy Weigel and Grubb combined forces to win the 4x200 relay and the quartet of Adam Dougherty, Eric Stoeckman, Devon Webb and Wolt won the 4x400 relay. Lerbakken, Stoeckman, Dougherty and Wolt prevailed in the 4x800 relay.

Eight other Tigers scored second place points: Mason Gaylord, triple jump; Mike Husnik, shot put; Auge, 100-meter dash; Weigel, 200-meter dash; Webb, 800-meter run; Rockett, 110-meter hurdles; Berg, high jump and Conner Phu, pole vault.

Alex Chadwick placed third in the 100-meter dash as did Tanner Thode in the shot put; Adam Wallenta in the 1600-meter run and Parco in the 200-meter dash.

"We have sneaked into some outdoor meets and that has been extremely beneficial as our competitors yesterday had only one meet prior to yesterday,"Tiger coach Brain Helmstetter said.  

"We haven’t had much chance to work on blocks or hand-offs and that showed yesterday, but it also is on obvious place we can improve. The boys were competitive and it was impressive loading four buses to go to a meet.  We gave the throwers their own bus."

The Tigers will have two entrants in the Hamline Elite meet Friday night in St Paul: Hyytinen in the 1600-meter run and the 4x400 meter relay team of Lerbakken, Hyytinen, Weigel and Grubb.

Next up on the regular season schedule are the Missota  Conference Relays next Tuesday in Chaska.