Boys Basketball
Farmington 61 St. Paul Harding 22
Gymnastics
Farmington 136.7 Chaska/Chanhassen 134.875
Wrestling
Farmington 14th out of 33 teams after 1st day of Minnesota Christmas Tournament in Rochester
Girls Hockey
New Prague at Farmington
21 December 2013
Gymnastics: Davenport leads Tigers past Chaska/Chanhassen
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| Amanda Davenport won vault, bars and all-around (photo by Jim Lindquist) |
Davenport dominated the competition, finishing first in vault (9.1) and uneven bars (8.25) and second on the balance beam (8.8) and floor exercise (9.0). Her all-around point total of 35.25 was easily a meet best.
"Amanda was the one to watch tonight," Tiger coach Lynn Bauman said. "The Tiger spirit was high. I am happy, happy, happy!"
Rachel Kiminski also had a big night for the Tigers who claimed their first dual meet decision of the season after facing state powers Northfield and Lakeville North in their first two head-to-head competitions.
Kiminski placed third on the beam and fourth in floor exercise and her all-around score if 33.7 was good enough for second place behind Davenport.
Tahra Eckert took third in vault and fifth on floor and ranked third in all-around with a score of 33.65.
Three other Tigers scored fourth place points: Racquel Beckett in vault; Kenzie McCuddin on bars and Sidney Comes on beam.
The Tigers are now off until after Christmas. They return to competition Saturday, Dec. 28 when they travel to Rosemount for a non-conference dual meet.
Boys B-Ball: No. 9 Tigers sail by Harding
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| Mac Bassett team-high 16 points |
The victory was the seventh in eight starts for Farmington with the only loss a 104-99 overtime defeat at the hands of No. 4 Lakeville North.
Friday in St. Paul the host Knights managed an early lead before the visitors got their game legs under them and took control.
"We came out of the gate a little slow but once we settled in, we played pretty well," coach Shane Wyandt said. "We played good defense and when we applied pressure they (Harding) turned it over a lot.
"After playing a lot of tough games in a short period of time, it was kind of nice to have a game like this. We played our whole roster and it is also good to get out of our physical environment once in awhile."
Harding actually led by a couple of points early but by the halftime break the Tiger lead stood at 38-16 and the only thing in doubt was the final score.
Harding scored but six points in the second half and finished the night with just half a dozen field goals.
Mac Bassett scored a team-high 16 points and Zach Speikers added 10 but for the most part the starters didn't log enough floor time to fill up the stat sheet.
The Tigers now turn their attention to next weekend's Hastings Holiday Tournament where the competition level will increase dramatically. The four-team field includes Farmington, host Hastings, Burnsville and Simley.
"Burnsville (4-6) doesn't have a great record but they lost to Shakopee by four and Eagan on a buzzer-beater," Wyandt said. "They have played some very good teams....Simley is 6-1 and Hastings (3-5) is much improved over when we played them in our opening game."
Farmington opens the two-day tourney Friday (Dec. 27) against Burnsville. Tip-off is 5:00 p.m. in Hastings.
20 December 2013
Boys Swimming: A+ in Conditioning
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| Austin Kueck won the 500 freestyle |
"Last night was a great eye opener as to how much potential we really have," Tiger coach Ryan Hamen said. "Looking at least year's meet against Hopkins, which was held at the same time of year, we are ahead overall from where we were a year ago."
Farmington garnered 10 of the 14 points available in the 200 medley relay, the first event of the night, and gradually extended its lead over the final 11 events.
Like the previous night's win over Hudson, the Tigers didn't score a lot of first place finishes (5) but piled up the points in places two through five.
Four Farmington individuals came through with victories, including Dan Berg in the 50 freestyle; Eric Schimmel in the 100 freestyle, Austin Kueck in the 500 freestyle and Jonathan Bovee in one-meter diving.
The 200 freestyle relay team of Schimmel, Adam Dougherty, Jonathan Kingbsury and Berg provided the other Tiger first place points.
"We lost Christopher Kirchmann, our big gun from last year," Hamen said, "But Berg, Schimmel and Garrett Haugen are swimming faster than last year's seniors at this point."
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| Dan Berg 2 1st place finishes |
Individuals included Berg in the 100 freestyle; Dion in the 100 butterfly; Ben Gunderson in the 100 backstroke; Brooke Lange in the 200 freestyle and Nick Stephan in the 100 breaststroke.
The runner-up 200 medley relay team consisted of 200 medley grouping of Gunderson, Robin DeCastro, Brandon Dion and Haugen.
Seven more Tigers finished in third place: Spencer Kabran, 100 breaststroke; Oscar Hanifl, diving; Ian Alexander, 200 freestyle; Haugen, 200 individual medley; Schimmel. 50 freestyle; Lange, 100 butterfly and Gunderson, 500 freestyle.
In addition to the final score, Hamen expressed satisfaction with the way his swimmers have been pushing each other in practice.
"In the 100 back, Gunderson is almost breaking the minute mark and Haugen and David Bovee are close behind him," Hamen said.
"In our breaststroke, we didn't lose any swimmers from last year while Kabran, DeCastro, and Stephan continue to take the leads."
The Tigers resume their schedule on Dec. 28 when they compete in the Apple Valley Invitational at the Valley Middle School pool.
Boys Hockey: Tigers get a tie for Christmas
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| Tyler Jette scored first varsity goal (photo by Jim Lindquist) |
Missed chances and too many penalties plagued the visitors who gave up three power play goals while managing a robust 33 shots on goal, one fewer than New Prague.
"It was a bit frustrating as we seemed to be in reach of putting the game away a couple of different times," Tiger coach Keith Revels said." New Prague has a 12-senior line-up that won the Missota last year so a comeback tie is something we can live with."
The Tigers accounted for the only first period score on a goal by Justin Novak (from John Siebenaler and Tyler Jette) and then made it 2-0 early in the second on Jette's first career goal (from Novak and Siebenaler).
That's about the time the Tigers started wearing a path to the penalty box.
The Trojans scored two power play goals in the second frame although Farmington still took a 3-2 lead into the third thanks to goal by Benton Olson (from Tanner Grubb).
Farmington, which picked up three two-minute minors in the second period, was whistled for two more in the third, leading to another power play score.
"No comment on the officiating," Revels said.
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| John Siebenaler had two assists vs. New Prague (photo by Jim Lindquist) |
The Tigers outshot the Trojans 5-3 in the extra session but neither team could find the net.
"We had a penalty shot on which their goalie made a nice save and throughout the game we had some near misses that we just couldn't get to go," Revels said.
Gage Overby had a solid night in the Farmington goal, stopping 29 of 33 shots, including a significant number while playing a man short.
Farmington, 5-3-1 overall and 1-0-1 in the conference, is idle until after Christmas when they play in a holiday tournament at Simley December 26-28. Other teams in the round-robin tourney include Cambridge-Isanti, Simley and Albert Lea.
" I think we have a bit more game than we showed at New Prague," Revels said, "and we look forward to the rematch at home which could be pretty meaningful game standings-wise.
"For now we need to take care of what we have control over and hopefully have a strong showing in our first holiday tourney in a number of years."
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