TOPEKA – Great Bend’s 200-yard medley relay (2:00.11) finished 10th in the 5-1A state swimming championship with a school record time with Emilee Hall, Clarice Snapp, Ellyson Somers and Josephine Mazouch. 

The Panthers’ {400-yard freestyle relay (4:04.78) placed 13th with a season-best time with Mazouch, Braylee Carper, Somers and Hall at Topeka’s Hummer Sports Park.

The Panthers won seven events to capture last week’s Western Athletic Conference swimming championship.

5-1A STATE, TOPEKA

PANTHER FINALS *season best

200 medley relay—10—Great Bend, *2:00.11 (Hall, Snapp, Somers, Mazouch) 

400 freestyle relay—15—Great Bend, *4:04.78 (Mazouch, Carper, Somers, Hall)

PANTHER PRELIMS

100 backstroke—17—Emilee Hall, 1:06.07

100 breaststroke—24—Clarise Snapp, 1:21.14

100 butterfly—21—Ellyson Somers, *1:07.38

100 freestyle—19—Josephine Mazouch, 58.9

200 freestyle relay—DQ—Great Bend, 1:50.16 (Mazouch, Somers, Kamryn Johns, Hall)

200 medley relay—11—Great Bend, *2:00.27 (Hall, Snapp, Somers, Mazouch) 

400 freestyle relay—15—Great Bend, 4:08.27 (Mazouch, Carper, Somers, Hall)