Girls Swimming: No. 6 Chanhassen too much for Tigers

Nikki Cayard (photo by Jim Lindquist)

Tiger coach Jen Marshall was hoping her team's depth would give it a chance in Thursday night's Missota Conference dual meet with sixth-rated Chanhassen at the Dodge Middle School pool.

As it turned out the Storm proved it had plenty of depth to go with its super talent in a 103- 83 victory.

"It was a great meet with some fast swimming and impressive diving," Marshall said. "We're looking forward to seeing them again at the conference meet"

Chanhassen dominated the meet, winning eight of the 12 events and racking up other place points as well.

All-state performer Kaitlyn O'Reilly had her hands in three of the four firsts. She won the 200 freestyle and 100 breaststroke and teamed up with Kirsten Kracke, Chelsea Gehrke and Cora Ruzicka to gain top honors in the 200 freestyle relay.

A big highlight for the home team came in one-meter diving where Nikki Cayard, Kendall Novak and Tori Sontag grabbed the top three spots.

Farmington scored second place points in five other events: Gehrke in the 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke; Kracke in the 50 freestyle; the 200 medley relay team of Emily Ley, Gehrke, Lexie Bray and Ellie Sundet and the 400 freestyle foursome of Kracke, Sundet, Ruzicka and O'Reilly.

Catherine Gehrke took third in the 500 freestyle as did Ruzicka in the 100 butterfly, Kracke in the 100 freestyle and Kaylee Dahlberg in the 100 breaststroke.

Kaitlyn O'Reilly 3 firsts vs. Chanhassen (photo by Jim Lindquist)