West Hawaii Today: Wildcats should enjoy win

Despite the headline, there are a few suggestions in Daniel Brock's editorial that imply some kind of disclaimer on behalf of Kealakehe, which has often scored nearly 600 points per season in recent BIIF play. But to have a late story without quotes (see Monday's edition of WHT) on a rivalry game that ended in a major upset baffles me. (Today's follow-up editorial doesn't have a single quote from Konawaena's coaches or players, either.)

I don't blame Brock, who had a game to cover that afternoon at HPA. But it's my humble opinion that the paper dropped the ball by not covering the Konawaena-Kealakehe game — a huge rivalry matchup — with another reporter. Maybe they had nobody else around. Maybe people are on vacation.

But to diminish Konawaena's win — the paper didn't even have quotes in the game story — is strange and disappointing for those of us who follow Neighbor Island prep athletics.

Preseason, nonconference, yadayada ... it's been six years since Konawaena beat Kealakehe. Six years of constantly being routed by a school twice its size.

To chalk it up to, Kealakehe is playing lots of kids, well that's fine. But when they played before, it was similar in nature but Kealakehe won big and the stories were full of quotes — and the paper didn't try to minimize the Waveriders' wins.

Just venting here, but know that it just smells odd when the little school pulls off an upset and suddenly the local paper is dismissing it. Why in the world do you think they'd do that?

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