MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County boys basketball team will try to keep its unbeaten record intact tonight but to do it will have to beat a team other than Worth County.

The Packers will take a 2-0 record to the Decatur County Coliseum to meet Bainbridge tonight in their final game before heading to Bowling Green, Ky., for a holiday tournament next week.

Both of the Packers victories have come over Worth County, the second of which came on Saturday in Sylvester.

The Packers opened the season with a 63-56 victory over the Rams at home on Nov. 28.

They duplicated that effort on Saturday, with three Packers scoring 14 or more points in a 73-66 victory.

The 3-1 Lady Packers will try to bounce back from a 15-point loss to the Lady Rams when they face the Bainbridge girls at 6 tonight.

Colquitt’s girls will have their hands full. The Lady Cats are 8-1 and the Lady Packers will play without starting guard Laquita Smith, who is lost for the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her knee on Saturday.

Colquitt County girls coach Joe Parker said Smith, who is a junior, will undergo surgery within the next two weeks and should be ready to begin practicing in June.

“She’s a junior, so she’ll come back,” Parker said. “She’ll have all summer to get ready.”

The Lady Packers will miss Smith’s jump shot and scoring ability.

In her place, Parker will start freshman Shay Lovett. Her backup will be sophomore Carly Moore.

“She can handle the ball and can handle pressure,” Parker said of Lovett, who already has seen considerable playing time and would have been in the rotation this season.

“She can take it to the basket in transition and she’s got good court awareness, a good basketball head.”

Lovett will join Nikki Hudson and Nicolle Thomas is the backcourt and Taquella Coates and Tiffany Troupe up front.

Lovett got plenty of playing time on Saturday in the loss to Worth County after Smith went down early in the second quarter.

Also against Lady Rams on Saturday, Thomas scored 20 points and Hudson had 13.

In the Colquitt County boys victory over Worth County on Saturday, Channing Hudson had 18 points, Orion Ponder had 16 and Rashawn Melvin had 14.

The Packers had six 3-pointers, including four by Melvin.

Ponder not only had a rare double-digits scoring performance, he also handed out eight assists.

“He finished a lot of baskets and he did an excellent job of feeding everybody,” Packers coach Kirven Davis said.

Davis had said before the game that he was looking for a better defensive effort from his team.

“(Andrew) Wallace did a great defensive job,” Davis said. “Basically all of them did. We played an excellent physical game.”

The Packers had a lead of 20 in the fourth quarter before the Rams whittled away at it against the substitutes.

Davis said he was unsure of what to expect from the Bainbridge boys, who have one-point losses to Mitchell-Baker and Monroe.

“We need to go down there and make a statement,” Davis said.

The Colquitt County junior varsity boys lost to Worth County on Saturday 42-33, despite 13 points by Mario Haynes.

“We were down by seven at the half, then cut it two two at the end of the third quarter, but we were never able to get over the hump,” Packers junior varsity coach Jared Garner said.

The junior varsity Packers take a 2-2 record to Bainbridge today.

“We need to take care of the ball on the road,” Garner said.