If not for his mother, Landon Arnold probably wouldn’t be hanging out daily with his Burlington Central football buddies in Room 161, pumping iron and lifting each other up as another November game approaches.

The senior wouldn’t be knocking over opponents as a dual-threat, downhill-running quarterback disguised in a linebacker’s body.

Arnold wouldn’t be where he will be Saturday – on a community college football field with the chance for him and his teammates to make school history. Central (10-1), a No. 2 seed in the Class 6A state playoffs, will play No. 11 Fenwick (8-3) at 1 p.m. in a quarterfinal game at Triton College Stadium in River Grove.

The Rockets have never advanced to the semifinals in three previous chances, the last being in 2006. Last season, in its first playoff appe

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