2025 All-County Track: Boys' All-County team - The Vicksburg Post

2025 All-County Track: Boys’ All-County team

Published 4:00 am Sunday, June 1, 2025

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Warren Central sprinter Dwight Palmer is the 2025 Vicksburg Post boys track Athlete of the Year. The junior won the MHSAA Class 6A championship in the 100, 200 and 400 meters. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)

Shaun Archer/Vicksburg, Jr., Throws — Gators’ big man finished seventh in Class 6A in the discus with a throw of 115 feet, 6 inches

Schaffer Bell/Porter’s Chapel, Jr., Jumps/Sprints — MAIS Class 3A champion in the triple jump, with a mark of 38-6 ... finished third in the long jump (19 feet) and sixth in the high jump (6 feet) ... part of three relay teams that qualified for the state meet

Rohan Caples/Warren Central, Sr., Distance — Silver medalist in Class 6A in the 800 meters, with a personal-best time of 2:03.63 at the state meet ... also on the 4x400 relay that finished sixth in Class 6A

Gavin Davenport/Warren Central, Sr., Throws — Finished fifth in Class 6A in the shot put, with a throw of 43 feet, 9.5 inches

Jase Jung/Porter’s Chapel, Sr., Jumps/Sprints — Finished fifth in MAIS Class 3A in the high jump, with a height of 6 feet ... also on the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 meter relays that all reached the state meet

Rickey Neal, Jr./Warren Central, Sr., Jumps — Finished sixth in Class 6A in both the long jump (21 feet, 4inches) and triple jump (43-6)

Lakelan Pecanty/Porter’s Chapel, Fr., Jumps/Sprints — Topped 18 feet in the long jump this season and reached the MAIS Class 3A state meet in the event ... on the 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 meter relays that all reached the state meet

Chester Savage/Warren Central, Sr., Hurdles/Sprints — Won the MHSAA Class 6A championship in the 300 meter hurdles with a time of 39.89 seconds ... also on the 4x400 relay that finished sixth in Class 6A

Henry Slayton/Porter’s Chapel, Sr., Distance — The 2024 MAIS Class 3A runner-up in the 800 meters reached the state meet in the event again, and finished with a time of 2:21.78.

Jayden Woods/Vicksburg, Jr., Throws — Reached the MHSAA Class 6A state meet for the second year in a row in discus and finished fourth with a throw of 131-7 ... also finished seventh in the shot put

Relay of the Year/Porter’s Chapel 4x100, 4x200 and 4x400 relay — Porter’s Chapel’s relay team of Schaffer Bell, Jase Jung, Lakelan Pecanty and Auston Moore finished sixth in both the 4x100 and 4x200 at the MAIS Class 3A state meet. Carraway replaced Moore for the 4x400 that also reached the state meet.

At the end of each high school sports season, The Vicksburg Post honors Warren County’s best athletes in a number of sports with its All-County teams.

The 2025 All-County track and field team features 33 of the area’s top athletes from Warren Central, Vicksburg High, St. Aloysius and Porter’s Chapel Academy. All of them reached the state meet in their respective classifications in the MHSAA and MAIS, and six combined to win state championships.

The All-County boys’ team is led by Warren Central sprinter Dwight Palmer as the Athlete of the Year. The junior swept the MHSAA Class 6A championships in the 100, 200 and 400 meters, becoming the first Warren County athlete to win state titles in all three races in the same year since St. Aloysius’ DeMichael Harris in 2016.

At the Class 6A state meet, Palmer won the 100 meters in 10.73 seconds, the 400 in 49.12, and then the 200 in 21.84.

In 23 combined starts in the 100, 200 and 400 meters this season, Palmer won 19 times. He did not lose to a Class 6A runner in the 100 and 400, and not at all in the 200.

Congratulations to all on a great season!

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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