Girls swim wraps up regular season with fourth place finish at home

Louisburg junior Dana Mattison swims the freestyle in Osawatomie on Wednesday during the team’s final regular season meet of the season.

OSAWATOMIE — The Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg girls swim team hosted its final regular season meet of the season Wednesday as it competed in the Osawatomie Invitational.

The Miami County squad took part in the 8-team meet and ended its regular season strong with a finish in the upper-half of the team standings.

Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg took fourth overall with 310 points. Fort Scott won the meet with 447 points and Independence was second with 359.

It was also Senior Night as the team honored seniors Bri Shippy, Emma Johnson and Emma Boehm, along with their parents, for their time with the program.

However it was a freshman that led the Miami County team on Wednesday.

Louisburg freshman Sabra Brueggen finished first in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2 minutes and 24.49 seconds and won the event by 10 seconds.

Brueggen later went on to finish second in the 500-yard freestyle in 5 minutes and 48 seconds. She has already qualified for state in all eight individual events.

Ashley Branine, Janie Harth, Dana Mattison and Brueggen also finished runner-up in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:59. Branine, Cadence Weichert, Mattison and Brueggen finished third in the 400 freestyle relay in a season-best time of 4:30.

Mattison had a runner-up finish in the 200 freestyle with a season-best time of 2:28.11, while Shippy was sixth in the event in 2:41. Mattison also finished fifth in the 100 freestyle in another season-best time of 1:07 and Branine was sixth in 1:08.

Addie Stuebner led the Miami County team in the 100 butterfly as she was fourth in 1:21 and sixth in the 100 backstroke in 1:13.

Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg will now enter postseason competition as the team will host the Independent League meet Wednesday at the Ozone in Osawatomie.

Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg take sixth at Topeka West

The Miami County team made the trip to Topeka on April 26 for the Topeka West Invitational.

The meet, which featured several bigger schools, provided a lot of competition but Osawatomie-Paola-Louisburg took sixth with 195 points out of 12 teams.

Freshman Sabra Brueggen led the way as she won the 100-yard backstroke in 1:03.26 and took third in the 100 freestyle in 56.91 seconds.

Addie Stuebner also had a top three finish as she took third in the 100 backstroke in 1:14.

Brueggen, Ashley Branine, Dana Mattison and Janie Harth were fourth in the 200 medley relay in 2:16 and fifth in the 200 freestyle relay in 1:59.

Mattison had a pair top 10 finishes as she took seventh in the 500 freestyle in 6:46 and ninth in the 200 individual medley in 2:59. Branine was ninth in the 50 freestyle in 29.29 seconds.