Maddox Lynch helped launch Warren Central into the MHSAA Class 6A baseball playoffs and then had an equally good showing in The Vicksburg Post’s Athlete of the Week contest.

Lynch received 1,568 of the 3,132 votes cast in an online poll of The Post’s readers to claim this week’s award.

Lynch edged out Porter’s Chapel Academy track athlete Marley Bufkin, who finished second with 1,398 votes. Vicksburg High track athlete Jayden Woods was third with 263 votes, and the St. Aloysius mixed doubles tennis team of Carrie Wood and Walker Moore came in fourth with 241.

Lynch, a senior infielder and pitcher, went 5-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs scored in the Vikings’ two-game sweep of Center Hill in the first round of the Class 6A playoffs April 25 and 26. He also earned the pitching win in the Game 2 clincher by allowing one run in six innings.

For the season, Lynch is batting .340 with 15 RBIs and 15 runs scored. On the mound he is 3-0 with one save, a 1.16 ERA and 30 strikeouts in 24 innings pitched.

Warren Central (18-9) will face Grenada in a second-round series this weekend. Game 1 is Friday at 6 p.m. at Warren Central’s Viking Field, Game 2 is Saturday at 7 p.m. at Grenada, and if Game 3 is needed it will be Monday at 6 p.m. back at WC.

Congratulations to Maddox 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.