As high school football enters the final week of the regular season, Naperville North just locked up its fifth straight playoff appearance, improving to 5-3. Multiple nailbitting games were in the mix, a comeback victory over Neuqua in the final minutes of Week Seven , and clinching two overtime wins, most recently over the Sandburg Eagles in Week Six. Coach Sean Drendel says this kind of comeback grit is what the team needs to keep the playoff streak alive. This story is sponsored by Fair Oaks Ford and Fair Oaks Lincoln .

“It just makes you more playoff-ready because of tight games, and knowing how to finish games when you need to score, when you need to, stop by your defense. We’re starting to get those things rolling, like the last two weeks, where we got both of thos

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