When the Tigers visited Holy Angels in January they eked out a one-point win on Sebren Baer's bank shot from the top of the key at the buzzer.
In the rematch Tuesday night, Feb. 15, at Tiger Gym Farmington pulled out another nail-biter, this one by a 54-52 count.
"We had a poor first half," Tiger coach Shane Wyandt said. "We were passing up open shots and when we did take the shots we weren't knocking them down.
"But we had a little talk at halftime and seemed to get some things straightened out. We were an entirely different team the second half."
The Stars got the better of the play in the opening period and enjoyed a 31-22 lead at the halftime break before the Tigers started to find their game.
Baer and Alex Michels tied for scoring honors with 16 points apiece and both netted 10 of their total after intermission to help their team finally pull ahead 44-43 with fewer than five minutes to play.
Baer hit a couple of big three-pointers in the comeback while Michels worked the inside and got to the foul line with regularity. Michels scored Farmington's final three points from the charity stripe and intercepted a late pass to sew up the victory
"Those two did a lot of the scoring but we had several guys step it up in the second half," Wyandt said. "Zach Wallace had four offensive rebounds and Austin Bassett ran the offense like the point guard we need him to be."
The victory snapped a five-game Missota Conference losing streak for the Tigers who travel to Northfield Friday night to play the Raiders whom they also beat by a point earlier in the year.
Farmington returns home next Tuesday to entertain conference-leading and state-rated Chaska.
