Boys swim finishes runner-up at Blue Valley Northwest

Louisburg’s Cole Brown swims the breaststroke during a meet earlier this season. Brown was a part of two relays that took second and third, respectively.

OVERLAND PARK — The Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg boys swim team experienced success against some bigger programs last Tuesday.

The co-op team finished second at the Blue Valley Northwest quad as they tallied 169 points and defeated Shawnee Mission East (149 points) and De Soto (75). Blue Valley Northwest won going away with 407 points.

The Miami County team finished second in three events, including a pair of relays.

Bridger Baus, Braden Branine, Remington Rice and Cooper Hipp took second in the 200-yard medley relay in 1 minute and 57 seconds.

Rice, Sam Johnson, Baus and Cole Brown teamed up to finish second in the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:56. 

Individually, Rice also took runner-up in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.35 and was also fourth in the 50 freestyle in 24.91 seconds.

Sophomore Brayton Brueggen finished runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle in 6:01.55 and Bridger Baus was third in the 100 backstroke in 1:05.82.

Brown, Luke Hebert, Hipp and Sam Johnson went on to take third in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:48.83.

Louisburg is back in action Tuesday when it travels to Bonner Springs for a meet, which is set to start at 4:30 p.m.

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