EMPORIA — Levi Ashmore and Nathan Whitcomb are competitors.
That is why Emporia State baseball coach Bob Fornelli loves his two seniors so much, but that is also why there was no love lost between the two Hornets during their high school days.
Whitcomb, a former Humboldt Cub star, and Ashmore, a former Iola Mustang standout, remember the only sport in which the two schools would compete was baseball and that made the games an intense affair all the way around.
“We weren’t really the best of friends in high school,” Whitcomb said. “We went at it.”