ELLETTSVILLE — Tears of joy usually don't come from the coach on the losing end of a sectional final.

But after Edgewood volleyball coach Sam Jones watched the way his team scrapped and clawed and held it together and helped each other through the ups and downs of a tough 25-21, 25-27, 25-20, 25-23 loss to Northview Saturday night, it made perfect sense.

The Knights (28-5) won a fourth straight Class 3A sectional and had to earn every ounce of this one from a host Mustang team (18-16) that never once backed down.

"I'm so proud of our kids," Jones said. "They fought their butts off. I tell my kids, especially my five seniors, there's two different columns of things that we look at.

"One column is what everyone sees on the outside. They see wins and losses, they see stats, they see accol

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