Lee County thumps Packers 16-2

Published 9:35 pm Wednesday, April 5, 2006

MOULTRIE — Colquitt County’s non-Region 1-AAAAA game against Lee County on Wednesday in Leesburg was over pretty quickly.

After the Packers failed to score in the top of the first, the Trojans scored 11 times in the bottom of the inning and went on to a 16-2, five-inning victory.

The loss was the second in a row for the Packers, who fall to 5-10 as they prepare to go to Warner Robins on Friday for a region game against Houston County.

Colquitt had just four hits, all of which came in the top of the fourth and produced the Packers only two runs.

Carter Jones, Chance Pitts, Tyler Perryman and Scotty DeMott had the hits.

The score was much like the one when the two teams played in Moultrie on March 8 and the Trojans won 15-2 in five innings.

On Wednesday, the Trojans took advantage of eight walks, a hit batsmen and six hits to roll to the big first inning.

Sophomore Andrew McDowell hit the leadoff batter and proceeded to walk three batters and give up two hits before giving way to John Michael Harrison.

The freshman left-hander walked four and surrendered four hits before Scotty DeMott and Tyler Perryman each recorded an out to retire the side.

Perryman retired the Trojans in order in the second, but gave up a three-run homer in the third and a two-run homer in the fourth.

“We’ve just got to get refocused,” Packers coach Jerry Croft said. “We had taken some steps forward and now we’ve taken some backward steps. We’ve just got reverse the backwards steps.

“But we’ve got a long way to do. We’ll play them one game at a time and see how things shake out.”

PACKERS NOTES: The Packers also play Centennial High of Roswell at noon Saturday at Ike Aultman Field.

Centennial is on a spring break trip. The Knights will play at Lee County tonight an will visit Wild Adventures on Friday before meeting the Packers.

The team will head back to Roswell after the game.

Tift County turned in its second poor defensive outing in a row in its 10-0 loss to Houston County on Tuesday.

The Blue Devils made four errors and only three of the Bears 10 runs were earned.

Austin Smith started the game on the mound for the Blue Devils and took the loss.

Houston County pitcher Brian Wilkerson, last year’s Region 1-AAAAA Player of the Year, allowed Tift County just two hits: a doubles by Charlie Edwards and a single by Jacob Stinson.

The Blue Devils will take a 13-3 overall record and an 0-2 region record to Douglas on Friday for their meeting with Coffee, also 0-2.

Lowndes also won by 10 runs on Tuesday, dispatching Coffee 12-2 in five innings.

The Vikings turned a 2-1 deficit into a 9-2 lead when it scored eight runs in the third inning. Lowndes added a run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to put the mercy rule into effect.

Jon Michael Redding led the Vikings 14-hit attack with three hits, driving in two runs. Matt Harper had a pair of doubles and drove in a run. John Simpson also had two hits.

Chris Mederos was he winning pitcher after giving up just three hits and two unearned runs in five innings.

The Vikings will play at Crisp County today before playing host to Valdosta on Friday in a battle of the region’s two remaining unbeaten teams.