Michael Evans led Port Gibson’s baseball team to some lopsided wins last week, and earned a very close one of his own in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest.

Evans received 3,121 of the 7,278 votes cast in an online poll to earn the award for the week of Feb. 9-15, 2025. He edged Vicksburg High basketball player Zion Harvey by only 33 votes.

Harvey received 3,088 votes. St. Aloysius baseball player William Roberson was third, with 1,087, and Warren Central basketball player Roosevelt Harris received 354 votes for fourth place.

Evans, a shortstop and pitcher, was 5-for-7 with six RBIs and five runs scored as Port Gibson won all three of its baseball games last week. He also pitched six innings and had seven strikeouts in a 4-3 victory over Porter’s Chapel Academy on Feb. 10. The Blue Waves swept a doubleheader from PCA and also beat Hazlehurst 18-2 on Feb. 14.

Congratulations to Michael and the other nominees, and thank you to our readers for voting.

The nominees for the Athlete of the Week award are announced each Sunday, and voting is open until midnight Tuesday. Links to the poll will be posted on our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter/X pages, as well as vicksburgpost.com.