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For Oswego’s Graham Schwab , this weekend’s big game in Normal is going to have multiple layers. More than a Class 8A state championship trophy will be on the line for the junior fullback.

Neighborhood bragging rights will also be at stake when Schwab takes the field for the Panthers, with junior cornerback Isaac Saldana lining up on the opposite side of the ball for Mount Carmel.

“Obviously, it’s gonna be a tough game,” Schwab said. “Isaac has been one of my friends since elementary school and we still live pretty close to each other.”

Schwab, junior safety Dontrell Young , sophomore running back Ammar Banire — all now playing for Oswego — and Saldana were a close-knit group at Thompson Junior High.

That’s when the 6-foot-1, 210-po

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