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Washburn Rural's 2015 Class 6A state championship team, one of 15 Shawnee County state winners, was picked for the No. 1 spot on the TopSports.news Best of the Best Top 10 for boys golf.
Washburn Rural's 2015 boys golf team won the Class 6A state championship on a tiebreaker to finish off an undefeated season. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Jared Goehring's Junior Blues won the 6A state title on a tiebreaker over Blue Valley North, which tied at 296, with a lower fifth score, capping an undefeated season.
Washburn Rural put three players in the top eight places individually, led by fifth-place Lukas McCalla (73).
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Washburn Rural's 2014 team, which capped an undefeated season with a dominating performance in the Class 6A state tournament, was tapped for the No. 1 spot on TopSports.news Best of the Best girls golf Top 10.
Washburn Rural's undefeated Class 6A state champions earned the No. 1 spot on the TopSports.news Best of the Best girls golf Top 10. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Jared Goehring's Junior Blues won the '14 6A state championship, played at Topeka Country Club, by a 19-stroke margin over Shawnee Mission East (331-350) to cap their perfect season.
Washburn Rural put five players in the top 14 places individually, led by third-place Carly Rasmussen.
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Since the Kansas State High School Activities Association launched state football playoffs in 1969, Shawnee County teams have won 19 state championships in four classes while 10 county teams have recorded perfect seasons.
But while any of those 10 undefeated squads could make a case for the No. 1 spot on TopSports.news Best of the Best list, Tom Stringer's dominating 1998 team earned the nod at the top.
Hayden's 1998 football team went 13-0 to win the Class 4A state title without having a game closer than 10 points and winning 12 games by at least 21 points. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Ron Bowen's Washburn Rural team went a perfect 12-0 to win the 1989 Class 5A state championship, the Junior Blues' third state title in the '80s. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Silver Lake's 1989 football team went 13-0 to win the Class 3A state title, capped by a 20-17 overtime win over Hesston. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Stringer's Wildcats went a perfect 13-0 en route to their first of three Class 4A state championships, capped by a 52-27 romp past Holton in the state final.
Hayden's '98 team did not have a game closer than 10 points all season (25-15 against Concordia) and the Wildcats won 12 of their 13 starts by 21 or more points.
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Shawnee County boys cross country teams, representing four county schools, garnered 12 state team titles over a period of 51 seasons.
But the program that laid the foundation for that strong tradition -- Joe Schrag's Topeka West Chargers -- sits atop TopSports.news' Best of the Best list.
Joe Schrag's 1974 Topeka West cross country team was tapped for the No. 1 spot on the TopSports.news Best of the Best Top 10. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Schrag's 1974 team, his second of four championship teams at West, earned the No. 1 position on the Best of the Best Top 10 after completing an undefeated season with a dominating 47-78 win over Leavenworth in the Class 4A state meet.
Brent Swanson, Bill Myers and Tim Powell are members of the Topeka West Hall of Fame, as is the '74 team.
Bob Karr's 1979 championship Seaman cross country team was picked No. 2 on the TopSports.news Best of the Best. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
Another highly-respected team -- Bob Karr's 1979 Seaman team -- is No. 2 on the Top 10 after winning the 6A state championship by a 77-83 margin over Shawnee Mission South, which entered the '79 meet as the defending champ and a five-time champ overall.
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A case could be made for any of Shawnee County's 11 state championship teams to garner the No. 1 spot on the TopSports.news Best of the Best girls cross country Top 10.
After all, the county's cross country pedigree goes way back to Silver Lake's Class 3A state crown in the second year of state competition in 1978, and has continued with Hayden's run of seven 4A championships, Seaman's 6A and 5A titles and a dominating season by Washburn Rural en route to a 6A crown.
Washburn Rural notched its lone Class 6A girls cross county championship in 1996, including a perfect score in the city meet and a sweep of league, regional and state titles. [Submitted photo to KSHSAA.org]
But in the end, a 1996 Washburn Rural team that put together what is arguably the best postseason performance in county history got the slight nod for the top position.
Scott Shufelberger's Junior Blues began their late-season push with a perfect team score in the city meet, followed by Centennial League and regional titles and capped by the 6A championship by a 59-64 margin over Olathe South as the Blues were paced by oustanding individual performances from Cate Holston and Michelle Simecka.
