Vote now in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest for March 23-29, 2025

Published 4:00 am Monday, March 31, 2025

Voting is under way for The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest.

This week’s nominees are baseball players Walt Andrews (St. Aloysius) and Caleb Grady (Tallulah Academy); Cedrionna Blackmore (Vicksburg powerlifting); and Madison Pant (Warren Central softball). Voting is open until midnight Tuesday, and you can vote as many times as you want until the deadline.

Voting is open until midnight Tuesday, and you can vote as many times as you want until the deadline.

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Walt Andrews, a sophomore outfielder with St. Aloysius’ baseball team, batted .400 with four RBIs and four runs scored in a three-game series sweep of ACCS last week. Andrews reached base in eight of his 14 plate appearances and had three stolen bases.

Cedrionna Blackmore, a sophomore powerlifter at Vicksburg High, won the MHSAA Class 6A state championship in the girls’ 220-pound weight class on March 28. She had a total weight of 810 pounds in the bench press, squat and deadlift.

Madison Pant, a junior pitcher with Warren Central’s softball team, had 14 strikeouts in a five-inning perfect game against Ridgeland on March 25, as WC won 22-0. She has pitched 11 1/3 consecutive scoreless innings, and 8 1/3 without allowing a hit.

Caleb Grady, an eighth-grade first baseman with Tallulah Academy’s baseball team, was 2-for-4 with a home run, double and four RBIs in two games last week.

Voting is open until midnight Tuesday, and you can vote as many times as you want until the deadline. The winner will be announced Wednesday on vicksburgpost.com and featured in our Friday print edition.

Good luck to all of the nominees!

About Ernest Bowker

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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