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Phillip Conder and Aaliyah Wells will face a familiar foe tonight.

For the third time in their four seasons together, Conder, the Collins coach, and Wells, his standout senior forward, will meet South Oldham in the first round of the 8th Region Tournament. The Titans and Dragons will tip off at 6 p.m. at North Oldham.

If the first two regional quarterfinal games are any indication the third could – and should – go down to the wire. Those first two meetings have been decided by a total of five points.

In the Collins boys’ basketball team’s first game against Anderson County in early January, the Titans were outmuscled, outhustled, outshot and outscored. 

In Friday night’s rematch – in the 30th District Tournament final – Collins used an all-around team effort and a big second quarter to avenge its earlier loss to the Bearcats and capture its second consecutive district title, 63-51.

 “We wanted revenge, and we wanted to cut down the nets,” Titans senior forward Dez Marshall said.

LOUISVILLE – Collin Kessinger saved her best – and her fastest – for last.

Kessinger, a senior swimmer for Shelby County High School, may not have brought home a state title from this past weekend’s KHSAA Swimming & Diving Championships, but she did post some of the fastest times of her life.

Kessinger finished fifth in the 200-yard individual medley and sixth in the 100 breaststroke in Saturday’s state finals after shaving 5 seconds off her best times in those events in Friday’s preliminaries.

Three boys and two girls from the county have been named to the All-8th Region basketball teams.

Collins senior forward Dez Marshall was selected boys’ Player of the Year in a vote by region coaches.

“It means a lot, it’s an honor,” Marshall said after scoring 18 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in the Titans’ 62-44 30th District Tournament semifinal victory over Spencer County on Wednesday night. “But right now the only thing I’m really worried about is how far our team is going to go.”