Brian Huls and Tyler Magalis each piled up four first place finishes to pace the Tigers to an impressive 101-83 dual met win over Hopkins in their season opener Tuesday night, Dec. 14, at the Dodge Middle School pool.
Farmingon actually placed first in just seven of the 12 events but won by such a large margin thanks to a deep lineup that scored multiple places in almost every competition.
"The boys did well for the first meet," coach Ryan Hamen said. "Many swam times they were swimming at the conference meet last year. Hopefully that is a sign of good things to come."
Huls and Magalis combined with Loren Hatten and Zach Holton to win the meet-opening 200 medley relay relay and later joined forces with Hatten and Allen Berg to claim the 200 freestyle relay.
In between the all-Missota Conference performers each won a pair of individual events, Huls the 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly and Magalis the 50 freestyle and one-meter dive.
Berg had the other Farmington first, taking top honors in the 200 freestyle. Berg also placed second in the 500 freestyle.
Hatten added second place finishes in the 200 individual medley and 100 breaststroke to his leg on the winning 200 freestyle relay team and Derek Anderson took second in the 200 freestyle.
Holton claimed second in the 100 freestyle and third in the 200 freestyle while diver Evan Carufel finished second behind Magalis on the one-meter board.
Andrew Cayard added a pair of third place efforts in the 50 and 100 freestyle races and Nick Stephan placed third in the 100 breaststroke.
Other Farmington points scorers:
4th place: Cameron Molnar, 200 freestyle; Conner Kealy, 200 individual medley; Mitch Haugen, 100 freestyle; Matthew Clark, 500 freestyle and Matthew Stephan, 100 breaststroke.
5th place: M. Stephan, 100 butterfly; N. Stephan, 100 butterfly; Molnar, 500 freestyle and Anderson, 100 backstroke.
6th place: Eric Schimmel, 100 backstroke.
The Tigers don't have much time to savor their season-opening win as they jump back into the Dodge pool Thursday night, Dec. 16, for a dual meet with former Missota Conference rival Prior Lake.
