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4 days ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 3:24 pm Monday, June 23, 2025 The Mississippi High School Activities Association is moving ahead with plans to add girls’ flag football as a full varsity sport in the spring of 2026. The next few weeks will be a pivotal time, however, to see if Vicksburg High and Warren Central are part of it. Vicksburg Warren School District athletics director James Lewis said the MHSAA has asked its member schools to conduct a survey to gauge interest in the sport.
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5 days ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 4:00 am Monday, June 23, 2025 The third week of September is going to be a big one for high school sports in Warren County. Vicksburg High and Warren Central will renew their rivalry in football on Sept. 19, and it’ll have all the pomp and pageantry of the Red Carpet Bowl behind it as the long-running bowl game undergoes its latest evolution.
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6 days ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 12:45 am Sunday, June 22, 2025 Will Bates runs for Warren Central’s track and cross country teams, and has hopes of competing in college after he graduates in 2026. He has a recruiting visit to Mississippi College planned this week, and when he sits down with the coaches he’ll certainly have a nice bullet point on his resume. Bates crushed the field Saturday night to win the Star Spangled Night Run 5K championship for the second year in a row.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 4:00 am Saturday, June 21, 2025 Of all the things that made him a successful high school baseball player, there’s one that Hayes Loper put above the rest. “Hard work pays off whenever you’re consistent with it. Consistency has been my biggest thing,” Loper said. “Last season I would be hot and then I would be cold.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 5:00 pm Friday, June 20, 2025 A meme circulating around social media over the past two days indicated that fans in only three of the 50 states were rooting for LSU to beat underdog Coastal Carolina in the College World Series finals. One of those, however, was Louisiana — and representing the state by adding another national championship to the program’s storied history means more to the Tigers than who else is rooting for them. “It’s awesome.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 2:53 pm Friday, June 20, 2025 June is camp season at St. Aloysius, as the school hosts five fun summer youth sports camps. The season started this week with the football camp at Farrell Stadium and the volleyball camp in the St. Al gym. Nearly 40 children in grades 1-6 attended the two camps and got instruction from St. Al players and coaches. The sessions will move off campus next week for the softball and baseball camps.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 3:03 pm Tuesday, June 17, 2025 A little rain and thunder did not deter the Vicksburg YMCA Cannonballs, and it certainly wasn’t enough to keep the Williams family from streaking through the pool like little bolts of lightning. Siblings Titus, Shelby and Jonah Williams combined to win 12 events in their respective age groups as the Cannonballs took on the Fitlife Flippers in a dual meet Monday at the Wilkinson Ver Beck YMCA pool.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Alana Shelton works on her serve at the City of Vicksburg's youth tennis camp Monday at Halls Ferry Park. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post) Nearly 50 children are attending the City of Vicksburg's youth tennis camp this month at Halls Ferry Park. The camp will continue Monday through Thursday morning, from 8 to 11 a.m., through June 26. (Submitted to The Vicksburg Post) Hayes Morgan works on a drill at the City of Vicksburg's youth tennis camp Monday at Halls Ferry Park.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 4:00 am Monday, June 16, 2025 The first official day of summer will start with a party in downtown Vicksburg. The 8th annual Star Spangled Night Run is scheduled for Saturday, June 21, at 8 p.m. at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center on Crawford Street. The event includes a 5-kilometer run and race walk with a light-hearted nighttime theme. Runners and walkers will receive a glow item in their goodie bag, as well as a race T-shirt. “It’s such a fun one.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker
Published 4:00 am Sunday, June 15, 2025 Like every other high school baseball player in Mississippi, Maddox Lynch envisioned a lot of big moments ahead when Warren Central took the field on opening day. An embarrassing faceplant was not one of them. “I fell going around third and the ligaments just popped in my hand. I had to go have surgery,” Lynch said. The injury during a jamboree game against Clinton cost Lynch a month of his senior season.
