Ernest Bowker

5 days ago | vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker

Published 4:45 pm Friday, May 9, 2025 In baseball, as in life, bad bounces happen and send things in an unexpected direction. If you stay with it, though, you can still make the play. It’s a lesson Grant Worsley took to heart. The Vicksburg entrepreneur was trying to bring a college baseball series between Jackson State and Alcorn State to Vicksburg back in March. When the deal fell through, he stayed with it and turned an error into a web gem for Vicksburg’s young players.

6 days ago | vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker

Published 9:30 am Friday, May 9, 2025 From gaining experience to finding playmakers on both sides of the ball, Warren Central marked every box on its spring football game checklist. Quarterback Nash Morgan rushed for two touchdowns and threw for another, and the Vikings ran for 242 yards as a team in only three quarters as they beat Madison-Ridgeland Academy 28-14 on Thursday. “It was a bunch of questions and we were looking for answers,” Warren Central head coach Josh Morgan said.

6 days ago | vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker

Published 4:21 pm Thursday, May 8, 2025 When Whitley Parks reached out to Belhaven University about joining its softball program, she was just looking for a job as a team manager or something else that would keep her involved with the sport she loves. She never imagined a much better offer was coming down the pipe. Parks, a senior outfielder with Warren Central, received an offer to play for Belhaven.

6 days ago | vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker

Published 1:54 pm Thursday, May 8, 2025 Vicksburg High is coming off its first winless football season in more than 70 years and has to replace several excellent players at key positions. And yet, when he described the month-long spring practice period that’s about to conclude, head coach Christopher Lacey kept using a surprising word — “fun.”“The energy in practice has been good because the kids have been ticked off about last season.

1 week ago | vicksburgpost.com | Ernest Bowker

Published 1:49 pm Wednesday, May 7, 2025 J.T. McDaniel had a Herculean effort in leading Tallulah Academy to the MAIS baseball semifinals and then did a lot more heavy lifting in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. McDaniel received 3,787 of the 7,538 votes cast in an online poll of The Post’s readers to outrun Vicksburg High track athlete Amiyah Hall for the final award for the 2024-25 athletic year. Hall finished second in a competitive race, with 3,455 votes.