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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.

For many high schoolers, spring break is often a time to hit the beach and work on tans.

Several Shelby County High School student-athletes, however, recently spent their spring break in a much different way.

Fourteen members of Rockets’ sports teams – ranging from soccer to tennis to golf to basketball to football to track and field – built houses, chicken coops and ovens for less fortunate families during a mission trip to Guatemala.

“It was definitely incredible,” Shelby County senior Deric Hyman said.

It has been an up-and-down season for the Collins softball team.

The Titans won four of their first five games but then lost eight of their first 11 games to begin April.

Collins, however, won for the third time in its last four contests Monday night, slamming crosstown-rival Shelby County, 14-1, at the Shelby County Athletic Complex.