With Week 9 of the high school football season in the rearview , league championship races among other things are coming into focus.

Here are a few things we learned Friday night in Cleveland, Gaston and Lincoln counties:

Storm make landfall with 'Senior Night' romp

Winless two seasons ago, Stuart Cramer football’s 2026 class celebrated ‘Senior Night’ the best way it knew how.

Cramer clinched its first winning season in four years, earning a dominant 45-21 win over Southern Piedmont 2A/3A/4A leader Lincolnton. It marks the fifth time in program history that the Storm will end a season with a winning record.

A week after limiting West Lincoln to 131 total yards, the Cramer defense followed by putting the clamps on an explosive Lincolnton attack. The Storm forced five turnovers, four

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