This is the final ranking for the season, let the playoffs begin and the real rankings begin, on the field of play. There will be upsets. There will be teams, that were never ranked, all season long, that will win playoff games, and several of those teams, may end up in the championship game.
At the end of the season, there is only one winner in each classification. So does that mean that only one team feels good about themselves at the end? I say no. We all want to win every game we play in, but that is not the way it works.
Yes, we can be disappointed, that we didn’t win the championship ring or trophy, but if we don’t play the game, to the best of our ability, we will never forget that, going into the future.
My wish, is for every team, to play to the best of their ability. Twenty or forty years from now, you will remember, if you played to the best of your ability or not. Make that memory, be as positive as you can.
Super Top 10 All-Classes
1. St Thomas Aquinas
2. Great Bend
3. Maize
4. Mill Valley
5. Hays
6. St James
7. Kapaun
8. Andale
9. Junction City
10. Wichita NW
11. Hayden
12. Olathe West
13. Bishop Miege
14. Manhattan
6A
1. Maize
2. Wichita NW
3. Olathe West
4. Junction City
5. Manhattan
Others: Washburn Rural, SM NW, Gardner-Edgerton
5A
1. Aquinas
2. Great Bend
3. St James
4. Mill Valley
5. Hays
Others: Basehor-Linwood
4A
1. Kapaun
2. Eudora
3. Bishop Miege
4. Mulvane
5. Wamego
Others: Wellington, Ottawa, Labette Co.
3A
1. Andale
2. Hayden
3. Rock Creek
4. Holcomb
5. Santa Fe Trail
Others: Frontenac, Hugoton, Pratt, Prairie View
2A
1. SE of Saline
2. Nemaha Central
3. Hoisington
4. Sabetha
5. Silver Lake
Others: Garden Plain, Osage City, Caney Valley
1A
1. Jackson Heights
2. St Marys Colgan
3. Sterling
4. Rossville
5. Centralia
Others: Smith Center, Inman, Olpe, Riverside
8-man D-I
1. South Central
2. Trego Co.
3. Ell-Saline
4. Lyndon
5. Little River
Others: Leoti, Hill City, Madison
8-man D-II
1. Hanover
2. Axtell
3. Victoria
4. Hodgeman Co
5. Hutchinson Central Christian
Others: Frankfort, Wallace Co., Marmaton Valley
6-man
1. Weskan
2. Cunningham
3. South Barber
4. Ingalls
5. Tescott
Others: none
Long time Ranking team members
Rich Epp OpenSpacesSports Colby
Dusty Deines Ad Astra Radio Hutchinson/McPherson
Conor Nichol Sunflower Sports SolutionsHays
Jim Misunas Great Bend Tribune Great Bend
Adam Kadavy KSKL Scott City/Garden City
Brock Kappelmann KSCB Liberal
Tim McGonagle KSKL Scott City/Garden City
Rocky Downing KFRM 550 AM
Pat Strathman ESPN Wichita