It wasn’t the holiday blues, more like the holiday blahs.
Konawaena had been looking forward to playing Hilo all season, but Friday’s result left coach Kaua Wall searching for the right emotion for the occasion.
Not too good, not too bad and certainly not just right.
“We’re a little, well, we’re not happy,” Wall said. “I’m not disappointed, but I don’t know what the word is.”
A draw, in this case 1-1, does have a way of leaving a coach with an empty feeling.
After 80 spirited minutes of girls soccer between the two schools that have combined to win 11 of the past the past 12 BIIF Division I championships, the Wildcats (4-0-1 White division) and Vikings (4-1-1 Red) systematically trudged off the field at Hilo Bayfront, congratulated one another and said their goodbyes.