a great debate

I've been thinking about something for quite some time now. Something I've seen coming on the horizon since before the winter high school sports season began. In my mind it has sparked a raging debate, to which I cannot seem to find a conclusive answer.
On one side we have the New Britain Golden Hurricanes girls basketball team: two-time defending Class LL champions. Several of the players are the same, but several pieces are completely different from two years ago. A three-peat is possible, particularly after seeing the 'Canes survive the CCC tournament against Southington, Windsor and Bulkeley.
On the other side we have the Southington Blue Knights gymnastics team: three-time defending Class L and New England champs. The Knights are the clear favorite to win 'L' again with the top qualifying average in the state, and a fourth New England title could follow it two weeks later. This group is entirely different from the team that won the first title, with only two significant holdouts from even last year's team.
The question at hand is which is more impressive, particularly if both win their respective titles again this year? The 'Canes have won in one of the major sports, something that a lot of people across the state and country play, and something in which the chance of there being more competition is vastly greater. But the Knights haven't just won the state, they've won six states, and they've done it in dominant fashion for three years, with many different athletes.
For New Britain, junior guards Symone Roberts and Sarah Sideranko have never lost a state tournament game. Even more ridiculous, for Southington, senior Kelsie Straub has never lost a high school competition, be it a regular season dual meet, a state tournament, or a New England tournament. How would any of these kids react the first time they had to deal with a loss? I wouldn't want to go through that.
At the same time I struggle with the thought of how unique it is to see a dynasty in different sports. What Southington coach Byron Knox has done is impressive, but through his position at the CATS training center in Cheshire, he has worked with many of these athletes since they were little girls. The hard part was convincing them to join the high school team, often seen as second-rate compared to club competition.
It doesn't take much to convince players at your school to play basketball, and when you have a player like Roberts you have a dynamic weapon to start from. But winning titles, and in one of the more competitive divisions in all of CT high school sports, is not easy. Plus two different New Britain coaches, Beryl Piper and Karen Byrne, have attempted to lead the team to titles. Byrne will largely be judged, fairly or unfairly, this season on what happens in the next two weeks.
I guess this debate won't be settled, at least until one of them loses. I'm not sure that will be this year.

follow up on Southington

After watching Southington play New Britain two more times, I'm convinced the Knights could win the LL title (particularly with what I see as a moderately friendly road in the tournament) if things go the right way. They can clearly play with the best teams in the state, and if they hit their shots they are not just good, but great.
Somebody asked me in a comment to my last post whether I thought Southington might be on the verge of another run of dominance as they have had in past eras, and to be quite honest I don't see it. Southington will always be a good team in LL, because of the size of the school, but it is not a town that breeds basketball players, or a private school that has a culture of great teams and therefore attracts players. Dynasties are created at a younger level with youth programs, and I'm not sure that exists in Southington.
Besides, Munson is graduating, and there are questions as to just how good the Knights will be next year, even with a lot of talent returning. But I'll be rooting like hell for them in the next two weeks.