ADEL — It was just your normal 3 1/2-hour, seven-inning high school baseball game.

Colquitt County won its 2006 season-opener by a football-sounding score of 17-10 over Worth County on Monday in the Hornet Classic at Cook High in weather more conducive to the gridiron.

It was not pretty to witness, with errors and walks aplenty. And the Packers, who gave up just one home run the entire regular-season last year, gave up two the the Rams.

But the Packers got a victory, 13 base hits and sent 11 batters to the plate in the fifth inning and 13 to the plate in the seventh. Colquitt also solid outings from left-handers Andrew McDowell and Matt Weaver.

McDowell, a sophomore, went the first three innings and gave up two runs and five hits.

Both runs came in the third when Worth’s Kaleb Hathcock singled and scored on a homer to left by Jordan Jones.

Weaver, a junior, pitched the next two innings and struck out four. He gave up an infield hit in the fourth and a solo homer to Daniel Henley in the fifth.

The Rams scored three off Chance Pitts in sixth and four off Tyler Perryman in the seventh.

Colquitt battered five Worth County pitchers.

The Packers took a 3-0 lead in the top of third when Marshall Faircloth singled, Sam Heath was hit by a pitch and Corey Bridwell walked to load the bases. Carter Jones singled in two runs and Pitts sacrifice fly plated the other.

The Packers broke the game open with a seven-run fifth inning in which they had just three hits.

Colquitt scored seven more times in the top of the seventh to put the game away.

Bridwell, Jones and Andrew Wallace each had two hits. Heath, Weaver, Perryman, Scotty DeMott, Blake Cato, Drew Shealy and Faircloth had the others. DeMott and Wallace each had doubles. Jones drove in four runs.

The Packers will return to Adel to meet Valdosta at 4 p.m. Wedneday.