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Devin Ashton and Zach Lingle said they enjoyed being teammates on the Shelby County football team so much that they’re going to do it again for the next four years.

The seniors both signed Thursday in the school’s library to play football for Campbellsville University.

“My best friend [Ashton] was going there, and it’s really close to where I live, plus it’s a big teaching school,” Lingle said of the key factors in his decision. 

GOSHEN – Wednesday was a good night for Gabby Karas and Michael Barry but a tough one for Zach Shipley.

Karas, an eighth-grader at Collins, and Barry, a senior at Shelby County, each won two events at the Class AA, Region 3 track & field meet at North Oldham.

However Shipley, a Shelby County senior and the defending state champion in the 300-meter hurdles, was injured during the meet and limped to a ninth-place finish.

Collins junior Dre Farris, a standout football player for the Titans, said Monday’s grant offer from Western Kentucky University was part affirmation, part realization.

“It’s a stress reliever really,” he said Wednesday. “Playing Division One has been my dream since I was a little boy, and now I know I’ll have a chance to do that.”

And even, though, Farris isn’t going to cast his lot with a certain college or university any time soon, he said that just knowing he would have that opportunity is comforting.

The last time the Collins and Shelby County baseball teams met – a little more than 11 months ago – it was an instant classic.

The Rockets topped the Titans, 10-8, in 11 innings in the 30th District Tournament semifinals last year at Collins. It not only was Shelby County’s first victory over its new rival, which had routed the Rockets by a combined score of 39-8 in the first three meetings since the school “split” in 2010, but it also ended the Titans’ season.