Tiger Athletics News

Tiger Scoreboard: May 31, 2014

Girls Lacrosse
Section 1 semifinals
Farmington 16 Owatonna 6
Farmington (14-1) will host Lakeville South Tuesday for Section 1 championship

Boys Lacrosse
Section 1 semifinals
Lakeville South 9 Farmington 6
Farmington ends 2014 season with 11-4 record, the best in program history

Girls Golf: Swenson, Comes advance

Sidney Comes

Brianna Swenson

Farmington shot a season-low team score and two Tigers advanced to the Section 1AAA championship round of individual play at Thursday's first round played at Cannon Golf Club in Cannon Falls.

Lakeville North led the team rankings after round one with 340 strokes. Owatonna placed second at 356, followed by Northfield 358, Winona 361, Rochester Mayo 412, Lakeville South 423, Farmington 430, Rochester John Marshall 432, Rochester Century 439, Faribault 440 and Austin 479.

"The eighth place finish was one of our best in a long time," Tiger coach Jon Stock said, "and Brianna (Swenson) had her best round ever."

Swenson who lowered her personal best-ever score to 92, and teammate Sidney Comes who shot 108 will return to Cannon Falls on Monday to play in the second round of the individual competition. The top ten finishers in round one not on one of the six teams qualifying for round two advanced.

Other Tiger opening round scores included Kaitlin Jokinen 116, Amanda Hansmann 118 and Brooke McConnell 130.

Boys Golf: 5th in the Missota

Jake Jensen won all-Missota honors

The Tigers didn't quite meet their goal of a first division finish in the Missota Conference, but they did capture the fifth spot in final eight-team standings.

Farmington was a point and a half out of fourth heading into Thursday's final conference get-together at the Northfield Club where it finished fifth.

Chaska won the last-ever Missota meet with a team total of 304 strokes, 10 fewer than runner-up Chanhassen. Shakopee placed third with 330, followed by New Prague 331, Red Wing 331, Northfield 342, Farmington 343 and Holy Angels 353.

"We started off the first five holes as a team very rocky," Farmington coach Jon Holmes said. "All of our guys were well above bogey golf... The nerves were very apparent in most of the groupings and these types of situations are key for our young players to be in to build experience."

Jake Jensen and Darby Grengs led the Tiger efforts with respective rounds of 82 and 83. Jensen's score landed him a spot on the all-conference team. Grengs finished one stroke away from all-league honors.

For the day, the other Tiger players--Tyler VanWinkle, Isaac Ferm, Sam Newcomb and Lucas Berg--carded with identical rounds of 89.

"All in all, it was a good Missota run this year," Holmes said. "We are looking forward to entering the South Suburban next year with some seasoning and, of course, having a nostalgic Missota Conference Invite each year to keep the historic competition rolling."

Saturday the Tigers head to Montgomery National Golf Club in Montgomery for the opening round of the Section 1AAA Championships.

Softball: Settling for second


Emily Berdan drove in all of the Tiger runs with a three-run homer (photo by Jim Lindquist)

The Tigers ran out of miracle finishes in a 9-3 loss to Lakeville South Thursday afternoon in the Section 1AAA championship game played at Todd Park in Austin.

The Cougars broke a 3-3 tie with five runs in the third inning to advance to the state tournament for the first time. The runner-up Tigers has represented Section 1 in the state tournament the past two seasons.

"We played hard in the championship game," Farmington coach Paul Harrington said. "We threatened to score with runners on base every inning except the fifth. A few more timely hits and we would have been right there with them. I guess it wasn't our day."

South opened the scoring with a three-run second inning but the Tigers countered with a three-spot of their own in the bottom of the frame on a double by Ashley Ibinger, a single by Jordyn Keprios and a three-run homer by Emily Berdan

Keprios, Ibinger and Carly Esselman each had a pair of hits to led the eight-hit Farmington offensive attack.

Maddie Muelken went the distance in the circle for the Tigers and absorbed the pitching loss, scattering nine hits.

"We played 20 innings of softball on Tuesday," Harrington said. "Another day of rest before we played in the championship game would have been nice to recuperate physically and mentally. But we are all proud of our girls' efforts and enthusiasm until the final out.

"Lakeville South is a great team and we hope they represent our section well in the state tournament."

With the 4-2 run in the section tournament the Tigers finished the 2014 campaign with a record of 16 wins and nine losses.