FEDERAL WAY — Aberdeen’s Anna Weber wrote a stirring final chapter to a spectacular freshman swimming season.

Weber won the 100-yard breaststroke at the state 2A Girls Swimming & Diving Championships Saturday night at the King County Aquatic Center.

The AHS won an exciting duel with Liberty of Renton’s Abby Russell in the finals. Narrowly ahead for most of the way, Weber finished with a time of 1:04.4 — lowering her own school record and missing the meet record and All-America status for the event by two-tenths of a second.

Russell, who had entered the meet as the top seed but qualified second, also bettered her qualifying time in finishing second at 1:04.8.

“She just really drove that final lap,” Aberdeen coach Jan Simons said of Weber.

The District IV champion Bobcats placed sixth as a team — precisely matching Simons’ pre-meet projections.

Liberty took team honors with 298 points, 50 more than runner-up North Kitsap. In fifth place entering the concluding 400 freestyle relay, Aberdeen was overtaken by Steilacoom in that event, finishing with 132 points.

Most of Aberdeen’s final-day highlights came late in the meet.

Sophomore Kayleia Sias also broke her own school record in the 100 backstroke, taking third in 1:00.68.

The Bobcats were also third in the 200 medley relay, as the team of Weber, Sias, Mackayla Waltee and Karli Heikkila was clocked in 1:53.2.

Sias was eighth in the 100 butterfly (1:02.3), Weber 12th in the 200 free (2:03.59), Melissa May 13th in the 200 individual medley (2:25.53) and Heikkila 13th in the 100 free (57.76).

The 200 free relay team of Heikkila, Katie Lewis, May and Sias placed eighth in the 200 free relay and the 400 free relay foursome of Heikkila, Lewis, May and Weber wound up ninth in 3:53.39.

“The last part of the meet we rallied. The first part, the girls swam hard but we were a little bit flat,” Simons said. “It was a good meet.”