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Chanhassen was able to silence Farmington's bats last Thursday, but it didn't take long for the Tigers to get back to making plenty of noise at the plate. After being swept 2-1 and 3-2 for their first two Missota Conference losses of the year, the team bounced back by edging Rochester...

The Farmington boys track team made huge strides at this year's Section 1AAA True Team meet. Sixth out of nine teams a year ago when they scored 584 points, the Tigers placed second with 828 points last Tuesday at Lakeville North. Owatonna won the nine-team meet with 882 1/2 points. Justin...

A new hockey league is coming to Farmington this summer and no skates are required. Called simply ball hockey, the league is offered through Lakeville-based Dryland Hockey, Inc. It looks like a regular hockey game, but players are in tennis shoes and there is no ice. The game is...

The Farmington boys golf team was already in a tricky position this year with a very young lineup. Throw in weather-related delays that meant the team didn't play its first meet until April 30 and it was hard to know how things would go. Turns out, not too bad. The Tiger boys finished...

Three points separated Farmington from a team title last Tuesday at the Missota Conference Relays in Chaska. The Tigers won seven events and scored 178 points, just three off the pace of first-place Chanhassen's 181. Third-place New Prague was well off the pace of the top two teams...

The Farmington baseball team was on both sides of a pair of doubleheader sweeps last week. The Tigers had their largest offensive output of the young season last Tuesday when they knocked off New Prague 13-2 and 5-2 at Memorial Park in New Prague. Two days later at Donaldson Park...

Last spring the Farmington boys track team won the Missota Conference Relays without finishing first in any of the meet's 17 events. There was no shortage of gold-medal-winning performances for the Tigers last Tuesday at Chaska. They topped the field in seven events and finished...

A pair of closely-contested losses kept the Farmington girls lacrosse team winless last week. The Tigers couldn't muster the offense to rally in a 7-5 loss to Rochester Century Friday night at Tiger Stadium. A day later the team put together a furious three-goal rally late to tie...

The Farmington girls track team sent five events to the Hamline Elite Meet Friday night in St. Paul and all five came away with top-10 finishes. Defending state 110 hurdles champion Nadia Lorencz placed third in the event in 15.53 seconds and added a fourth-place long jump of 16...

Farmington carried early leads in both games of its doubleheader Friday afternoon in Rochester, but struggles both on the mound and in the field made them disappear in a Missota Conference sweep at the hands of Red Wing. The Wingers clubbed 14 hits and took advantage of six walks...