MOULTRIE —
The Colquitt County girls basketball team rallied from a three-point deficit with just over four minutes remaining to defeat Lowndes 58-54 on Tuesday on the William Bryant Court at the Gladys Espy Memorial Gymnasium.
The victory was the third in row for the Lady Packers and evened their Region 1-AAAAAA record at 5-5. They are 13-6 overall.
The Colquitt County boys dropped Tuesday’s second game, falling 49-45 to the Vikings, despite 21 points by Kamoris Woods.
Xavier Terry added 12 points.
The Packers pulled to within three points on a Terry 3-pointer with 24.6 seconds left, but could get no closer.
The Colquitt boys fall to 3-14 overall and 1-9 in the region.
The Vikings, who upset Valdosta 64-60 on Saturday, are now 4-5 in the region.
The Colquitt County girls were down 25-20 at halftime, but after the Vikettes’ Dionne Arnold hit a 3-pointer just 40 seconds into the third quarter, the Lady Packers ran off the final 14 points of the period to take a 34-28 advantage into the final eight minutes.
Makeba Ponder hit a 3-pointer to open the fourth quarter to put Colquitt up 37-28, but the Vikettes Mercy Gillon-Gantt hit nine points over the next two minutes and the Vikettes had pulled to within two.
A Tasha Brown basket tied the game at 41-41 with 4:44 remaining and a pair of free throws by Brown and another by Asha Jordan Hayes gave Lowndes a 44-41 lead with 4:08 left.
Exactly a minute later, Ponder hit two free throws to tie the game at 45 and with 2:09 left in the game she fired and inbounds pass that Dezaray Fowler put in off the glass to put Colquitt up 47-45.
Lowndes was never closer than two the rest of the way.
Ponder led the Lady Packers with 25 points. Dexshalyn Polite had 13; Ja’nice Sailor added nine; Fowler and Natalie Griffin each had four; Shakhila Harry had two; and Ashley Henry had a free throw.
Brown had 17 and Gillon-Gantt had 15 for the Vikettes, now 3-6 in the region.
The Lady Packers will try to make it four in row when they travel to Douglas to meet Coffee on Friday. Colquitt will be at home on Saturday to face Albany.
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Lady Packers win third straight to even region record
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State champion flag football team
Colquitt County won the gold medal in the Senior/Master Traditional Flag Football competition at the recent 2013 Special Olympics Georgia State Summer Games last weekend. Colquitt County defeated Gwinnett County 26-0 in the opening round and defeated Gwinnett again in the championship game 24-0. The team includes, front, from left, Quan Ballard, Joseph Bentley, Wayne Cooley, Jonathon Barnett and James Moxley; back, assistant coach Nick Edge, Shane Jacobs, James Palmore, Jack Hipps, Local Coordinator Grant Hammack, Donta Merritt, Kelvin Holmes and head coach Dennis Eubanks.
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8 Packers named All-Region in baseball
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Giddens named to Rimington Trophy watch list
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Dawson resigns as Colquitt County athletic director
Darius Dawson, who has served as Colquitt County’s athletic director since 2006, has resigned to take a job as assistant principal at Charlie A. Gray Middle School.
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South Georgia Youth Shooting Club excels
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Packers finish tied for fourth in state golf tournament
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Tournaments open
Levi Stanfill helped lead Liberty Tax into the Farm League baseball tournament that opened on Monday at the Magnolia Sports Complex. Tournament play in both the Farm League and Midget League will continue tonight with the championship games set for 6 p.m. Thursday. In Monday’s Midget League games, Davis Insurance defeated Mobley Plant 9-3; Quality Employment downed Hutchinson Traylor 13-5 and Southwest Georgia Insurance eliminated Ameris 20-4. In Farm League games on Monday, Farm Bureau defeated Lazarus, 17-6; Ameris won over Southwest Georgia Bank 13-2; Liberty Tax defeated Rocky’s 8-2; and Davis Insurance won over Paradise Pool and Patio 17-2. Stanfill is shown slamming a double in a recent Liberty Tax victory over Lazarus.
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Lady Packers third at state golf tournament at Sunset
Colquitt County coach Matt Key said he thinks his Lady Packers might have place little too much pressure on themselves at Monday’s Class AAAAAA golf tournament at Sunset Country Club.
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Packers head to Tifton to chase state golf championship
When the Colquitt County High golf team tees off in Monday’s state tournament, the Packers will be playing a course that it sometimes plays better than its own.
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Davis Insurance, Hutson Motors win boys baseball championships
Davis Insurance edged Liberty Tax 13-12 on Thursday at the Magnolia Sports Complex and claimed the Farm League baseball championship.
Hutson Motors won the Tiny Mites championship after defeating Holman Supply 15-0 to finish its season undefeated.
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