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'This was the dream' A special senior class, several of them third-year starters, brought home Fenwick's first state football championship Saturday with the 34-15 win over Kankakee in the Class 5A final.

Fenwick started Saturday's Class 5A state championship against Kankakee with 28 unanswered points and rolled to the program's first state title with a 34-15 win at NIU's Huskie Stadium.

Conor and Martin Paris always like to one-up each other. When it mattered the most, the Fenwick twins worked together to help lead the Friars defense in their 34-15 Class 5A title win on Saturday.

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Fenwick beat Kankakee, 34-15, to win the school's first state football title

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Fenwick's Kaden Cobb runs in a touchdown from one yard out to give Fenwick a 34-15 lead over Kankakee in the IHSA Class 5A state football title game

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Fenwick RB Danny Kent runs in a 1-yard touchdown to put Fenwick ahead of Kankakee 28-0 in the second quarter of the IHSA Class 5A state football title game

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Fenwick QB Kaden Cobb hits Max Reese for a 67-yard touchdown to put Fenwick up 21-0 in the second quarter of the Class 5A IHSA state football title game

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Fenwick defeated Kankakee 34-15 Saturday to claim the IHSA Class 5A state championship at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.