WATCH: Starkville, Mantachie, Houston Athletes Sign to the Next Level

WATCH: Starkville, Mantachie, Houston Athletes Sign to the Next Level

Another day a big day at starkville high school... the yellowjackets officially sending two of the school's baseball stars off to the next level starkville high's riley dawkins signs with southern miss and jackson owen signs with n-e-m-cc to continue their baseball careers both dawkins and owen saying each school really stood out to be the place each jacket wanted to continue playing ball dawkins: "southern mississippi, it's always been a winning tradition there.

The championships and the coaches.

I fell in love when i went my first time.

I went back for another visit for another little camp so they could see me throw and i just fell in love with the atmosphere and everything about southern miss."

Owen: "i love the coaches.

Coach brown and coach harrelson they were on me hard.

The facilities are amazing and brand new.

It's nice."

Adkins: "it's very rewarding to know that you kind of had a role and helping mold their future and help them get an education.

Also i get to become a fan at this point and being able to follow them that's really neat to know that you're a part of that."

The signing excitement continues over in mantachie after verbally committing to northeast community college five years ago, mustang's softball senior lynsey barber finally makes it official barber putting ink to paper to officially continue her career with the tigers barber currently holds the most pitching wins in program history, has a .500 batting average and holds division mvp honors one hilltopper softball standout was all smiles this afternoon houston's paige kilgore officially signs to continue her softball career with southern miss kilgore joins the golden eagles after securing the 2020 missisisppi gatorade player of the year honors in kilgore's career as a hilltopper, she's tallied 606 strikeouts, a 1.48 e- r-a, a .405 batting average, 105 rbis, 6 hrs and a total