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Tuel Drops Time on 2nd Day of State Meet, Alexandria Takes 5th Place in Class A

By Craig Olson, 03/04/23, 9:00PM CST

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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)