Swimming and diving: Tigers second at South St. Paul

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Farmington accumulated 357.5 points in earning a second-place finish at the nine-team South St. Paul Invitational Saturday at Central Square Community Center.

Cambridge-Isanti won the meet with 414 points. Hastings was third with 319 points, followed by River Falls (Wis.), South St. Paul, St. Louis Park, Tartan, St. Cloud Apollo and St. Paul Como Park.

Senior Tyler Magalis had another solid meet, placing first in the 1-meter dive and second in the 50 freestyle. He also joined Brian Huls, Christopher Kirchmann and Allen Berg for a first-place swim in the 200 freestyle relay.

Huls was an individual champion in the 50 freestyle and a fourth-place finisher in the 100 butterfly. Berg tacked on a third-place showing in the 500 freestyle.

Farmington got the chance to shuffle around its lineup last Thursday in a dual meet against Shakopee, a program that began just three years ago.

The Tigers won all 12 events and rolled to a 94-81 conference win at Shakopee Junior High.

“I was able to put my varsity swimmers in events they normally don’t swim and we had some great surprises with the results,” Farmington coach Ryan Hamen said. “The win is not as important as the times and performance improvements we had last night.”

Some of the performances Hamen mentioned specifically were Huls in the 200 individual medley, Zach Holton in the 500 freestyle, Loren Hatten in the 100 butterfly, Mitch Haugen in the 500 freestyle and Kirchmann in the 100 freestyle.

First-place finishes

200 medley relay: Aaron Lane, Matthew Stephan, Aaron Cochnauer, Magalis, 1:52.57

200 freestyle: Berg, 1:55.16

200 IM: Huls, 2:10.74

50 freestyle: Magalis, 24.00

1-meter dive: Magalis, 262.80 (pool record)

100 butterfly: Hatten, 1:03.53

100 freestyle: Derek Anderson, 53.04

500 freestyle: Holton, 5:18.17

200 freestyle relay: Kirchmann, Hatten, Stephan, Berg, 1:39.90

100 backstroke: Huls, 59.48

100 breaststroke: Stephan, 1:09.61

400 freestyle relay: Hatten, Huls, Berg, Holton, 3:44.81

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