MOULTRIE —
Freshman Meagan May went 4-for-10 with a pair of walks and three stolen bases for the 12th-ranked North Georgia women’s softball team in the season-opening PBC-SSC Challenge held last weekend in Columbus.
The former Lady Packer went 2-for-3 and scored a pair of runs in the Saints 5-2 win over St. Leo and was 2-for-4 with a run and a stolen base in a 5-3 win over Florida Tech.
May batted second and played center field as the Saints won three of their four games in the event.
North Georgia will play next when it hosts the Captain D’s Classic beginning on Saturday.
Of this and that:
• Former Packer Andrew Harvin played both doubles and singles as the Valdosta State men’s tennis team opened its season with a 5-4 loss to USC-Aiken at home on Friday.
Harvin, a freshman, and Joachim Schemm fell 4-8 at No. 3 doubles. Harvin also was defeated by Bruno Orlandini 1-6, 0-6, at No. 6 singles.
The Blazers will play host to Georgia College on Wednesday.
• Freshman Kwante’sha Love has played in 16 of the 3-17 Georgia Southwestern women’s basketball team’s games this season and has two starts.
The former Lady Packer is averaging seven minutes a game.
• Ann-Perry Blank finished fourth on 1-meter with a 258.20 and was fourth on 3-meter with a 292.85 as the University of Georgia swimming and diving team defeated South Carolina and Alabama on Saturday.
The Lady Bulldogs are now 10-1 overall and 5-1 in the SEC.
• Defending ACC baseball champion Georgia Tech will open its 2013 season on Friday, Feb. 15, with a three-game home series against Akron.
Sophomore Cole Pitts is expected to be one of the Yellow Jackets top three starters after going 6-4 with a 4.50 ERA and a save as a freshman last year.
The 6-foot-5, 232-pound former Packer started 13 games, second-most on the team, last year.
• Matt Creech, Pitts’s former Colquitt County High teammate, is expected to be contributor this season at Charlotte.
Last year’s Region 1-AAAAA Player of the Year for the Packers is an infield candidate for the Division I 49ers, who play in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Charlotte, which went 21-32 last season, will open Feb. 15 with a four-game series at home against Delaware State.
• The Valdosta State men’s golf team, which includes former Packers Clarke Hendrick, a senior, and John Fordham, a sophomore, will open its 2013 spring season next Monday in the Matlock Collegiate in Lakeland, Fla.
• The Darton College men’s golf team, which includes freshman Von Stripling , another former Packer, is playing in the Titan Winter Invitational at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Fla., this week.
• Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame member Vanessa Taylor left the strong program she had built at Johnson C. Smith University to take over struggling North Carolina Central University program this year and the Eagles are still looking for their first victory of the 2012-2013 season.
NCCU, now 0-20, traveled to take on Maryland-Eastern Shore on Monday.
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May makes immediate impact for North Georgia
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Packers finish tied for fourth in state golf tournament
When Colquitt County won the Blue Devil Invitational at Spring Hill Country Club in Tifton on April 8, the Packers did so with a round of 294, their best score of the season.
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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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Harrell Auto Electric wins Mite girls championship
Harrell Auto Electric defeated M&M Diesel 13-4 on Thursday and, combined with Little Debbie’s 13-10 over Kirk Clinic, clinched the Mite girls championship.
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Colquitt girls seek state golf title on home course
The Colquitt County girls golf team will certainly have an advantage in Monday’s Class AAAAAA tournament at Sunset Country Club with three fine players competing on familiar territory.
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As expected, defense shines in Packers scrimmage
To no one’s surprise, the talented Colquitt County defense had its way much of the time in Saturday morning’s spring scrimmage at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.
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Colquitt County producing top offensive linemen
Since Rush Propst rode into town in 2008 and installed his gun-slinging, rapid-fire offense, Colquitt County has produced record-setting teams and players.
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TOURNAMENT RUNNERS-UP
The Colquitt County Legends 9U travel baseball team placed second at the Berrien County 10U Invitational Tournament held last Saturday. All the teams in the tournament were 10U teams except the Legends, who were the only 9U team. Shown are, front, from left, Chasyn Miley, Hayden Moore, Abraham Daniels, Jace Autrey, Henry Underwood, Hayes Lightsey and Landon Griffin; middle, Cole Whatley, Nathan Harden, Davis Dalton, Cannon Whatley, Drew Johnson and Mason White; back, coaches Andy Whitaker, Chris Miley, Ricky Griffin, Keith Whatley and Clay Underwood.
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