Breck/Blake won the Class A State Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday at the U of M Aquatic Center, scoring 408 points and doubling the total of runner-up St. Thomas Academy (204). Orono was third (167), followed by two Central Lakes Conference teams, Sauk Rapids-Rice (158) and Alexandria (148).
Fergus Falls freshman Matthew Tuel dropped over 3.5 seconds from his prelim time in the 500 freestyle, finishing sixteenth in the event with a personal best time of 5:07.64.
“Matthew had a great day in the pool,” exclaimed Fergus Falls Head Coach Randy Hansen. “To drop time in the finals is awesome. He swam a smart and aggressive race and it paid off with his best time of the year.”
Here are the Alexandria results by event:
200 Medley Relay
8. Alexandria 1:39.92 (Cooper Runnning, Logan Tung, Eric Peterson, Erik Reineke)
200 Freestyle
10. Cooper Running 1:47.57
200 IM
6. Logan Tung 2:00.53
50 Freestyle
8. Erik Reineke 22.11
Diving
2. Kyler Kavanagh 422.60
100 Butterfly
8. Eric Peterson 53.43
100 Freestyle
5. Erik Reineke 48.22
500 Freestyle
9. Cooper Running 4:53.97
100 Backstroke
16. Eric Peterson 56.85
100 Breaststroke
8. Logan Tung 59.71
400 Freestyle Relay
3. Alexandria 3:14.94 (Erik Reineke, Cooper Running, Logan Tung, Eric Peterson)