DADE CITY -- Ransom Everglades’ Bert Irigoyen and Belen Jesuit’s Elliot Clemente had won different kinds of state championship during their careers.

But there was something left to strive for on the final race of their high school careers.

For Clemente, it was an individual title that had eluded him during the recent Belen team dynasty. And for Irigoyen, an individual state champion last year, it was the chance to share victory with his teammates.

Clemente and Irigoyen added the missing pieces Saturday morning at the Little Everglades Ranch as each won his race and helped his respective team win a state championships on what became Miami-Dade County’s most successful state championship meet ever.

Belen and Ransom, coupled with Carrollton’s victory in the Class 2A girls’ meet, gave Dade three team state champions in the same year for only the second time in the meet’s 65-year history.

But it was the first time Dade teams had achieved the feat and also had a pair of individual champions. Clemente and Irigoyen became the first Dade runners to win in the same year since Central’s Moise Joseph and Belen’s Eddie Acosta won in 1998.

Clemente led Belen to the Class 3A boys’ state title as the Wolverines, ranked No. 6 in the country by the National High School Coaches Association, finished with 26 points, won their second in a row and fifth in the past six seasons.

“It’s been a memorable year with a lot of firsts for the program with the victories these kids have earned,” Belen coach Frankie Ruiz said. “It’s constant brain-washing. We had to make them humble with hard workouts every time we’d get a big victory. But the whole time, this was the ultimate goal and they stayed focused on that.”

Irigoyen, who will attend Brown University, ran a time of 15 minutes 57 seconds to secure the individual title of the Class 2A boys’ meet. But his real excitement didn’t show until he heard the results of the team race.

Ransom finished with 81 points and won the school’s first boys’ title since 1997. Billy Scola finished fifth, Eduardo Bustamante finished 12th, and Gabriel Correa finished 24th to boost the Raiders.

“They ran well and took care of each other all year,” Ransom coach Don Kappelman said. “It’s been a process finishing in the top five the past few years. They ran confidently and dominated.”

Clemente ran it in 15:05.99 — a state-best for the meet — to finish more than half a minute ahead of the field. Avery Lopez, Michael Magoulas and Fabian Tomas finished fourth, seventh and ninth, respectively, as the Wolverines placed six runners in the top 35. Clemente, who said he is considering the Universities of Florida and Florida State, became Belen’s third individual champion. He will run at the Nike Nationals next.

“It’s been an amazing run since the eighth grade, moving up and getting better every year,” Clemente said. “I’m ecstatic with the championship and the ranking. All the hard work has paid off.”

Irigoyen became the first Ransom state individual champion since William Convey won three straight from 1980 to 1982. Convey was in attendance Saturday as his son, Kurt, a freshman at Coral Reef placed a Dade-best ninth in the Class 4A boys’ race.