Coach Sly: Wishing this wasn't the end

There's just something wrong in Coach Sly's book about losing one game all season and not having a chance to lace em up again.

The Geneva girls season ends at 31-1 after Monday night's loss to Hersey, and because of the timing of that one loss, there's no chance for the Vikings to shake this one off and start a new winning streak.

Season over, no state trip. Guess 31-game winning streaks don't get you as much as they used to.

You'd love to see what a group of competitors like this would do to follow up a loss. Sly wouldn't want to be the next team in their path, but unfortunately, we won't get to see it play out.

Emotionally, Sly can only imagine how difficult this loss is for a team that in the back of their mind has been thinking about making it back to state since, well, a few hours after last season ended.

But these girls are smart enough to know there's only so much moping that can be done. Hersey's a heck of a team, too, and deserves their moment of glory.

Could the ending have been a happier one for the Vikings? Heck yeah. But for seniors like Augustine and Wicinski to be able to say they were 63-3 their juniors and senior seasons, well, that's plenty of bragging material to occupy their grandkids one day.

Coach Sly heartily salutes another fabulous season for the Geneva girls hoops program. In an otherwise so-so winter of roundball around the Tri-Cities, these girls created a buzz from November on.

And Coach Sly is always thinkin' about next year, even if it's too early for the girls to stomach.

This year's team showed three returning starters go a long way in a program that barely considers it a legit winning streak anymore until it hits 30.

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