It took until the first period of overtime for both the Whanganui High School boys and girls 1st XI's to end their pain and finally claim Manawatu Secondary School Division 1 titles at the Twin Turfs this week.
Both WHS teams had been beaten in the finals last year, with the boys also missing out in 2015, while the girls had not had another sniff of the championship in the past five years.
And both sides had to keep their heads up as their opposition managed to score equalising goals inside the last four minutes of regulation time to send the games into sudden death - winning the day with penalty corner conversions.
The boys final was on Wednesday night, as WHS went in as slight favourites, having beaten Feilding High School during the round robin.
They led 1-0 at halftime, and then with the clock running down, Feilding pulled their goal keeper for an extra man and got the equaliser.