Ernest Bowker, Author at The Vicksburg Post
Ernest Bowker is The Vicksburg Post's sports editor. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post's sports staff since 1998, making him one of the longest-tenured reporters in the paper's 140-year history. The New Jersey native is a graduate of LSU. In his career, he has won more than 50 awards from the Mississippi Press Association and Associated Press for his coverage of local sports in Vicksburg.
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Immediately after his junior season ended, Gaylon Turner went to work getting ready for his final year of high school basketball. The Warren Central star ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Thursday, March 28, 2024 2:03 pm
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Shaniyah Walker crossed the finish line first as the latest Vicksburg Post Athlete of the Week. The Vicksburg High track athlete received a late push ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:00 pm
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Two years ago, Warren Central’s tennis team endured a winless season and missed the MHSAA team playoffs. This year, the Vikings will be home for ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 9:30 am
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Cade Fairley walked to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, with thoughts of a game-winning ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 9:28 am
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It took until two-thirds of the way through the season, but Porter’s Chapel Academy finally won a close game. To be fair, though, it hasn’t ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 9:25 am
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Former NFL star and Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler was arrested Saturday in Rhode Island for suspicion of driving under the influence. Several media outlets in ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 6:52 pm
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All throughout their high school basketball careers, Rodrianna Hall and Kierra James watched other people get the spotlight. This season, as seniors, it was their ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 2:23 pm
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Voting is now open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. This week’s nominees are baseball players Clark Hobson (St. Aloysius) and Gavin ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 24, 2024 2:05 pm
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It’s a rite of spring as regular as spotting the first robin or, in Mississippi, planting a garden and getting a cold snap three days ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 24, 2024 2:00 pm
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Whenever he’s feeling down, or angry, or frustrated, Davian Williams knows exactly where to go. “When I’m in a bad mood you go play basketball ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 24, 2024 4:00 am
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Last month, Porter’s Chapel Academy basketball coach Casey Fisher met with his counterparts in MAIS District 4-3A to divvy up the league’s awards. One of ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 24, 2024 3:55 am
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When he followed the legendary Dellie C. Robinson as Vicksburg High’s boys’ basketball coach, Kelvin Carter admits he didn’t change a whole lot about the ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 24, 2024 3:50 am
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Warren Central bumped its MHSAA Region 2-6A softball opener up a day to beat the rain, and wound up beating Ridgeland as well. Sarah Cameron ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 8:59 pm
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Madison Pant pitched and hit Warren Central’s softball team to two victories last weekend, then added another win in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 10:23 am
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Porter’s Chapel Academy got bashed at the beach, but came out punching when they got back home. John Wyatt Massey and Gavin White had four ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Tuesday, March 19, 2024 11:30 pm
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There was plenty of news, and some symmetry, this week involving former Vicksburg High football players Rory Johnson, Malcolm Butler and Nick Anderson. Johnson, who ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Monday, March 18, 2024 11:05 am
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Bayou Independent Wrestling returned to Vicksburg’s Ardis T. Williams City Auditorium on Saturday night with one of its biggest shows of the year. All four ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 17, 2024 4:01 pm
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Voting is now open in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. This week’s nominees are softball players Madison Pant (Warren Central) and Trinity ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 17, 2024 1:05 pm
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When she was a freshman, Gloria Hall was thrust into an awkward role with Warren Central’s soccer team. There were no returning starters and she ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 17, 2024 4:00 am
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During his high school soccer career, Tyler Godshaw’s teammates have given him a lot of nicknames based on how he was playing. Kamikaze. Sir Shanks-a-Lot. ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Sunday, March 17, 2024 3:55 am
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Each year, The Vicksburg Post selects the top local athletes in a number of sports for its All-County teams. Fourteen players were selected for the ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Saturday, March 16, 2024 4:00 am
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For years, Warren Central’s soccer seasons followed a predictable and unfortunate pattern. There would be a good regular season, a playoff berth, and then a ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Saturday, March 16, 2024 3:55 am
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Each year, The Vicksburg Post selects the top local athletes in a number of sports for its All-County teams. Fifteen players were selected for the ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Saturday, March 16, 2024 3:50 am
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While Nick Anderson waited patiently for another NFL opportunity to come his way last season, Chris Jones was impatiently trying to lure him in a ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Friday, March 15, 2024 4:00 am
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Lilli Feibelman aced the competition in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest. The Warren Central tennis player was an overwhelming winner in this ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Wednesday, March 13, 2024 12:00 pm
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The St. Aloysius Flashes overcame a three-run deficit and scored twice in the seventh inning to win on Tuesday. Of course they did. That’s sort ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 10:55 pm
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More than a dozen young tennis players came to the Halls Ferry Park courts on Tuesday morning for the City of Vicksburg’s annual spring break ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Tuesday, March 12, 2024 3:46 pm
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Spring break week started with a party for Tallulah Academy and a bummer of a day for Porter’s Chapel Academy. Gage Palmer went 2-for-4 with ...
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by Ernest Bowker, Monday, March 11, 2024 9:39 pm
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