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Colquitt basketball teams at home twice this week
MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County High basketball teams will be at home on Friday and Saturday nights this week, playing host to Bainbridge and Worth County respectively at the Espy Gymnasium.
The Colquitt County girls will take a 3-0 record into its meeting with a strong Bainbridge team on Friday.
The Lady Packers have defeated Monroe twice and Worth County once in the early going.
Colquitt’s girls will go into the game against the Lady Cats coming off a 43-37 victory over Monroe in Albany on Saturday.
The Colquitt County boys team will welcome back a number of players from the Packers football team, which was eliminated from the playoffs last Friday in Camden County.
The Packers fell to Monroe 55-46 in Albany on Friday.
The Colquitt County boys got 12 points from Nate Hill and 11 from Luis Ballenilla. Trey While had nine, Cornelius James had eight and Lawhe Wingfield added six.
The Packers have not met Bainbridge yet, but fell to Worth County in Sylvester on Nov. 27, 67-52, despite 16 points by Hill.
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Rustlers win World Series tournament in Valdosta
MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County Rustlers won the Elite Tournament Baseball Silver Division World Series, which was held July 23-24 in Valdosta.
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Church league champions
Pine Grove Baptist Church won the Moultrie-Colquitt County Parks and Recreation Department’s Ladies Church League championship with a record of 8-1. Team members are back, from left, Sara Tillman, Gwen Brown, Jessica Stanford, Kristi Lee, Jordan Turner, Sunny Norman, coach Franklin Veasey, Amber Veasey Serrata, Lucy Lee and Donna Hartsfield; front, Patty Lee, Charley Hartsfield, Chelsea Weaver, Stacy Clark, bat girl Alexis Ruis and Kaley Clark.
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Region football kickoff program set for Saturday
MOULTRIE — Former Colquitt County High head football coach Jim Hughes will be the keynote speaker at Saturday’s annual Kickoff to Men’s Health Event in Tifton that will feature Region 1-AAAAA coaches speaking about their teams’ prospects for the 2010 season.
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Getting ready for the season
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McAlpin helping tap Georgia baseball talent
MOULTRIE — Chris McAlpin is not sure exactly why Georgia seems to be producing so many outstanding baseball players the last few years.
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8th-grade football team begins preparations
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Hogan and Reid rally to win Ramsey Pidcock
MOULTRIE — The opportunity for Kevin Blanton and Greg Coop to successfully defend their Ramsey Pidcock Invitational championship slipped away on Sunday on No. 14, where they carded double-bogey.
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Return shot
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Basketball Pack improves during summer schedule
MOULTRIE — Colquitt County boys basketball Kirven Davis knows that it will take more than one player to make up for the points and rebounds the Packers received from senior Nate Hill last season.
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Southwest Georgia Select 7-on-7 champions
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