Eagle's Landing Christian (3-6) has become the first team in 24 years to win a region title (5-A) with a losing overall record. The most recent had been Mount Zion of Carroll County, which won Region 7-A with a 4-5 regular-season record and 2-0 region record in 1990. Here are the 14 teams that have done it, with their region or subregion records and their overall records. West Rome won a state title that way in 1965. Greene County reached the Class AA final in 1989. In 1949, Marist was declared the Region 4-AA champion despite playing only one of its four region rivals, Rossville, which was 0-4 in the region. The GHSA later required that regions and subregions play full round-robin schedules.
1949 Marist
Record: 1-0, 3-7
1958 Decatur
Record: 4-0, 4-6
1959 Waynesboro
Record: 4-3-1, 4-5-1
1965 West Rome
Record: 3-1, 4-5-1
1972 Union County
Record: 3-0, 4-6
1973 Boggs Academy
Record: 2-0, 3-5
1974 Crestwood
Record: 4-1, 4-5-1
1977 Palmetto
Record: 1-0, 3-7
1979 Buford
Record: 3-0, 3-7
1983 Atkinson County
Record: 1-0, 3-5-2
1989 Greene County
Record: 3-3, 4-6
1989 Palmetto
Record: 2-0, 4-6
1990 Mount Zion
Record: 2-0, 4-5
2014 ELCA
Record: 3-0, 3-6
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