MOULTRIE — The season has come down to one game for the Colquitt County High baseball team.

A victory on Friday over Tift County will qualify the Packers for the postseason.

A loss will send the Blue Devils instead.

The Packers knew they had to win over Lowndes on Friday and over Tift County on Friday and combine those two scenarios with a Tift County win over Houston County on Tuesday.

Everything has worked in the Packers favor so far.

Colquitt defeated Region 1-AAAAA champion Lowndes 7-4 at Ike Aultman Field at Packer Park on Friday to raise its region record to 5-6.

Tift blanked Houston County 10-0 in five innings, eliminating the Bears from playoff consideration.

The Blue Devils are 6-5 in the region.

A Packers win on Friday would leave both Colquitt and Tift County with 6-6 region records, but Colquitt would have swept the series and would get the playoff spot.

Lowndes, Coffee and Valdosta will be the other teams advancing to the postseason.

The victory raises the Packers overall record to 11-13. The Vikings, who clinched their third straight region championship with an 11-9 victory over Warner Robins last Friday, used a sophomore and a freshman on the mound and fell to 16-9 overall and 8-3 in the region.

Lowndes will travel to Houston County to close out the region schedule on Friday.

The Vikings started sophomore Hayden Martin, who went the first three innings, giving up five runs and taking the loss. Freshman Brandon Gilbert pitched the fourth and gave up two two-out runs.

Veteran Tanner Fudge finished up.

Although Lowndes has clinched its seventh region title in the last nine seasons, the Vikings have lost five of their last eight games.

“We’re just not playing very well right now,” coach Danny Redshaw said. “Early in the season we played well, but we really haven’t played all year like we’re capable of.”

Lowndes jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Colby Yates reached on an infield hit and scored on a double by Josh Purvis. But the Packers scored three in the bottom of the first and got their first run when John Michael Harrison hit the third pitch of the game from Martin off the scoreboard for a home run.

A single by Matt Weaver drove in another run and a fielder’s choice hit into by Tyler Perryman plated another.

Martin got out of further damage by coaxing Andrew McDowell to hit into an inning-ending double play.

A two-out single by the Vikings Josh Reeves drove in Chris Powell to cut the Packers lead to 3-2 in the top of the second.

Colquitt scored two more runs in the third, with Perryman singling in Weaver, who had doubled, and Carter Jones crossing the plate on a wild pitch.

Lowndes scored its final two runs in the fourth. Chris Powell, who reached on an infield hit, scored on a wild pitch and Parker Pridgen, who had tripled, scored on a single by Reeves.

Up just 4-3, the Packers scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth after a strange Lowndes double play. With Javaris Jackson on first, Harrison lined to left center, where Purvis made a diving catch.

Jackson had advance past second and did not retouch the bag before returning to first and was called out.

But two Vikings errors and an Andrew Wallace double gave the Packers two insurance runs.

Wallace got the final three outs in relief in the seventh after entering with two on and none out.