Noah

Victory always had a sound.

Not the final whistle — not even the roar from the stands.

It was the explosion of voices in the locker room after the game, the echo of helmets hitting metal lockers, high fives cracking through the air, and the entire team screaming the fight song like we’d just won a championship.

And tonight, we’d earned it.

Ridgeville 21. Clearwater 14.

A grind-it-out, fourth-quarter win — the kind that makes your chest ache and your lungs burn, but ...