WC Baseball Camp
Published 10:31 am Tuesday, June 12, 2018
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Warren Central baseball player Clayton Thurman gives some hitting pointers to Reid Hood Monday at the Warren Central Baseball Camp. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and continues through Friday at Viking Field, from 8 a.m. to noon each day. Late and daily registration will be accepted until the end of the camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
Warren Central baseball player Sean Daily, far right, talks to campers during the first day of the Warren Central Baseball Camp on Monday. Campers, from left, are Blake Thurman, Case Simmons, Karson Lynn, Reid Hood and Wyatt Wallace. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and continues through Friday at Viking Field. Late and daily registration will be accepted until the end of the camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
Kaden Taylor, left, and Jackson Woolsey gather baseballs Monday during the Warren Central Baseball Camp at Viking Field. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and continues through Friday at Viking Field. Late and daily registration will be accepted until the end of the camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
Jackson Woolsey gathers up a bunch of baseballs Monday at the Warren Central Baseball Camp at Viking Field. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and continues through Friday at Viking Field. Late and daily registration will be accepted until the end of the camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
Case Simmons fields a ground ball Monday at the Warren Central Baseball Camp. The camp is for children ages 5-14 and continues through Friday at Viking Field. Late and daily registration will be accepted until the end of the camp. (Ernest Bowker/The Vicksburg Post)
Warren Central’s annual youth baseball camp will continue through Friday, from 8 a.m. to noon each day, at Viking Field.
The camp is for children ages 5-14, and focuses on teaching baseball fundamentals and sportsmanship through various drills and games. Instructors include Warren Central coaches and players.
A daily registration fee of $25, or a pro-rated rate for the remainder of the camp, is available.
Players should bring cleats, shorts, T-shirt, tennis shoes, a baseball glove, sunscreen, towel and change of clothes on Friday. The final day of the camp includes sliding drills on a wet tarp.
For more information, call WC baseball coach Conner Douglas at 662-902-2620.
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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