Tiger Scoreboard: January 26, 2014

Boys Hockey
Farmington 7 Red Wing 1

Girls Basketball
Chanhassen 52 Farmington 37

Boys Basketball
Chanhassen 67 Farmington 60

Gymnastics
Farmington 137.575 Red Wing 126.35

Boys Swimming: Stormhawks overpower Tigers

Brandon Dion won the 100 butterfly (photo by Jim Lindquist)

Powerhouse Chaska/Chanhassen stormed to a 40-point lead and coasted to a 98-83 dual meet win over the Tigers Thursday night at the Chaska Middle School East pool.

"We had some good swims," Tiger coach Ryan Hamen said, "but they have some very strong swimmers and they got most of the places."

The Stormhawks won eight of the first 10 events before swimming the final two races in exhibition status, allowing the visitors to pick up 25 quick points.

The Tiger wins came from Jonathan Bovee in one-meter diving and Brandon Dion in the 100 butterfly.

Austin Kueck put up a couple of second place finishes for the Tigers, placing runner-up in the 200 individual medley and the 500 freestyle.

Ben Gunderson took second in the 100 backstroke and Daniel Berg scored second place points in the 100 freestyle.

Both the 200 medley (David Bovee, Robin DeCastro, Kueck and Jonathan Kingsbury) and the 200 freestyle (Berg, Devon Webb, Dion and Eric Schimmel) teams also took second.

Three other Farmington entrants ranked third in individual events: Dion, 50 freestyle; Sean Dougherty, one-meter diving and Garrett Haugen, 100 backstroke.

The Tigers get back to business next Tuesday night with a dual meet at Section 1AA rival Hastings.

Ferm, Buss named AAA winners

Isabelle Ferm

Stan Buss and Isabelle Ferm have been named the Farmington High School AAA award winners for the 2013-14 school year.

The AAA award, sponsored by the Minnesota State High School League, honors one male and one female senior from each member school for their excellence in academics, athletics and the arts.

Regional winners will be honored at a banquet the weekend of the state boys' basketball tournament in March. Four regional winners will receive $1000 scholarships at the state awards banquet.

Ferm owns a 3.978 grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and has challenged herself by taking several Advanced Placement (AP) courses as well as in-school college classes.

In athletics, she has excelled in soccer and track and field, earning all-state honors twice in soccer and once on track. She was has been the Missota Conference Player of the Year in girls' soccer and landed a spot on the StarTribune's second team.

In the area of the  arts, Ferm has been a four-year member of the high school choir and competed in the High School League-sponsored Solo/Ensemble Contest where she received a Superior rating. For the past two years she has been a member of the New Dimension, the school's top level choir.

Ferm has not decided on where she will attend college but plans to major in exercise science while continuing to participate in both track and choir.

Stan Buss

In the classroom Buss has compiled a 4.008 grade point average and taken both AP classes and in-school college courses.

Buss was a cross country runner and hockey player for the Tigers until a knee injury caused him to cut short his varsity career after his junior year. He is participating in the first-ever intramural basketball program at FHS this winter.

Like Ferm, Buss is a member of the elite New Dimension school choir. As a junior, he auditioned for the All-State choir and earned an alternate position. He received an Excellent rating at the High School League-sponsored Solo/Ensemble Contest.

In addition to choir, Buss has been active in the FHS drama department. Last fall he played Ewart Dunlop in the production of "The Music Man".

Buss is also president of the Tiger Leadership Club, a student council member and on the executive board of the National Honor Society.

The FHS male AAA winner will attend Marquette University next fall where he plans to major in electrical engineering as well as participate in choir and theater.

Girls Hockey: No. 3 Red Wing snaps Tiger streak

Scored first Tiger goal (photo by Jim Lindquist)

It took the third-rated Class A team in Minnesota to break the Tigers' five-game win streak.

Red Wing used three power play goals and a big five-goal second period to post a 6-2 Missota Conference win over Farmington Thursday night at Prairie Island Arena in Red Wing.

The loss evened out the Tigers' season record at 11-11-1 with two games remaining on the regular season schedule.

The talented Wingers scored the only goal of the first period on the power play and then capitalized on three more Farmington minor penalties in the second to score five times, two with a player advantage.

The Tigers netted both of their goals in the second frame, the first one a shorthanded score by Maddi Oines to cut the Farmington deficit to 3-1.

Ellie Moser garnered the second goal late in the second period.

Farmington outshot the Wingers 7-3 over the final 17 minutes but could not get the puck by Winger goalie Anna Vagasky.

The Tigers were whistled for seven of the nine penalties called in the contest, including two more in the final period.

The Tigers will attempt to get back on the winning track next week when they close out their regular season with a pair of Missota Conference road games, Tuesday night at New Prague and Saturday afternoon against Holy Angels at Richfield Arena.

The Section 1AA post-season tournament begins the following week against an opponent and at a site to be determined by a seeding process.

Tiger Scoreboard: January 24, 2014

Girls Hockey
Red Wing 6 Farmington 2

Boys Swimming and Diving
Farmington vs. Chaska/Chanhassen