MOULTRIE — The Region 4-AAAAA baseball champion and runner-up have already been determined and they are waiting for which Region 1-AAAAA teams they will play host to in the the first round of the state playoffs.

Colquitt County will be happy to get on a bus and travel next week.

The Packers can claim a playoff berth if they can defeat Tift County in a game that starts at 7 tonight at Ike Aultman Field at Packer Park.

A loss would leave the Packers at home for the playoffs for the second straight year.

The Packers won their first meeting with Tift County on April 6, defeating the Blue Devils 9-4 at the Devil Diamond.

The Packers went ahead to stay on a three-run homer by Andrew Wallace off Jacob Stinson in the fifth inning.

Wallace has enjoyed some big games against the Blue Devils.

Last year, he went 5-for-5 with three doubles and a grand slam in a 15-14 Colquitt County victory.

The Blue Devils come into the game with an 18-7 overall record and defeated Houston County 10-0 on Tuesday to set up the crucial matchup with the Packers.

Tift County is expected to start Matthew Brunty on the mound.

Brunty will face a Packers team that has won four of its last six and takes a .329 team batting average into the game.

Senior Matt Weaver leads the Packers in hitting with a .475 average.

Weaver also leads the team in hits, with 38; runs batted in, with 37; doubles, with eight; and home runs with three.

Second baseman Carter Jones is hitting .392 and leads the team with 11 stolen bases.

Shortstop Blake Cato is batting .378 and has scored a team-high 35 runs.

Wallace is batting .359 and is second on the team in runs batted in with 23 and runs scored with 34.

Wallace has six doubles and two home runs.

Sophomore leadoff hitter John Michael Harrison is hitting .319 and has seven extra-base hits, including two home runs.

If the Packers can win and take fourth place, they will travel to meet East Coweta.

The Indians won the Region 4-AAAAA championship when the trio of Bryan Blough, Rico Reid and Casey Kuebler combined to no-hit Morrow 11-0 on Monday.

East Coweta is now 19-6 overall and will take a five-game winning streak into today’s non-region game against Troup County. The Indians have won 15 of their last 18 games.

East Coweta is coached by Franklin DeLoach, who brought his 2003 team to Moultrie for the state championship series. Colquitt County took that series two games to one to win the Packers second state title.

Newnan is the Region 4-AAAAA runner-up.

The eight Colquitt County seniors will be honored before the the game tonight. They are Weaver, Jones, Wallace, Spencer Richardson, Javaris Jackson, Tyler Perryman, Clay Hartley and Marcus Stancil.