MOULTRIE — Lowndes and Tift County continued to separate themselves from the rest of Region 1-AAAAA on Tuesday with the Vikings beating Colquitt County 13-3 in five innings and Tift County knocking off Houston County 9-2 in Warner Robins.

Both Lowndes and Tift County are 4-1 in region play. They are the only two teams with winning region records.

At Noel George Field at Lowndes, the Vikings scored two runs in the first and four in the second and rolled to the easy region victory.

The Vikings had 10 hits while sophomore James Hager held the Packers to just four hits and raised his record to 5-0, including 3-0 in region games. Hager struck out six.

The Packers got an inside-the-park home run from Javaris Jackson and received continued torrid hitting from Matt Weaver. The senior went 2-for-3 to raise his batting average to .529. He also drove in a run.

Carter Jones had the other Packers hit.

Andrew McDowell started for the Packers and gave up six runs and six hits and took the loss.

The loss drops the Packers to 6-10 overall and 1-4 in the region. Colquitt has now surrendered double-digit runs in 10 games this season.

Lowndes raises its overall record to 11-4.

In Tift County’s victory over Houston County, Nick Prostko had two hits, including a three-run home run, and drove in four runs.

Matthew Brunty was the winning pitcher for the Blue Devils, who play host to Colquitt County at 7 p.m. Friday.

Houston County will go to Lowndes on Friday. The Bears fall to 2-3 in the region.

Also on Tuesday, Warner Robins used an 11-run fifth inning to defeat Coffee 15-8 in Douglas.

After Tuesday’s games the region standings show Lowndes, 4-1; Tift County 4-1; Warner Robins 3-3; Coffee 2-3; Houston County 2-3; Valdosta 2-3; Colquitt County 1-4.

Valdosta did not play a region game on Tuesday.

On Friday, Colquitt County will travel to Tift County, Houston County will go to Lowndes and Valdosta will go to Douglas to meet Coffee.

There are no region games scheduled for next Tuesday.