MOULTRIE — The two Colquitt County 14-and-under all-star teams took one-sided victories on Monday in their opening games of the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association’s north sub-District III tournament being held at the Magnolia Sports Complex.

The Colquitt County B-team opened the tournament by shaking off a 2-0 first-inning deficit to defeat Tift County 13-3 in five innings.

Colquitt County A used a 10-run third inning to rout Americus-Sumter County 11-1, also in five innings.

The two games were played at Hubbell Field.

Both teams will be back in action at 5:30 p.m. today.

Colquitt County B will meet Lee County and Colquitt County A will face Crisp County. Tift County and Americus-Sumter County will meet each other in the first losers bracket game at 7:30 tonight.

The tournament championship game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

The tournament winner will play the winner of the south sub-District tournament in a best-of-3 series in Thomasville next week for the District III championship and a berth in the state tournament in Waycross.

Two Colquitt County 12-and-under all-star teams also played sub-District openers on Monday.

The Colquitt County 12-and-under B-team defeated Crisp County Blue 14-2 in Americus and will advance to meet Tift County at 5:30 p.m. today.

The Colquitt County 12-and-under A team played Thomasville in its opener in the south sub-District tournament in Bainbridge.

Because of a delay, the result of that game was not available at press time.

The Colquitt County 14-and-under B-team fell behind in the first inning when Tift County used a hit and three walks surrendered by starter Shelton Lott to take a 2-0 lead. But Colquitt County scored four times in the second and five times in the third to discourage Tift County.

Colquitt added another run in the fourth and three more in the top of the fifth.

After giving up two runs in the first, Lott settled down and held Tifton scoreless over the next two innings.

Blake Jenkins pitched a scoreless fourth and fifth.

Colquitt County took the lead for good on a two-run single by Meagan May in the second inning.

May also threw out a Tift County runner at the plate to complete a fifth-inning double play.

Tyler Powell led the Colquitt County B-team with two hits. May, Jacob Tompkins, Corey Moore, Zac Wheeler and Russell Hanson had the other hits.

May drove in three runs. Powell had two RBIs.

Tift County had base hits in all five innings, including eight over the last four, but could not score after the first.

Alan Coleman, Mikie Carter and Zach Nimmo each had two hits for Tift County. Will Howell, Guy McClung and Jordan Nipper had the others

In Monday’s second game, Colquitt County A got a long three-run homer by Daylon Connell and Mark Lindsey followed with a solo shot in the 10-run third inning.

Connell started on the mound for Colquitt County and retired the first six batters, striking out four.

Stephen Moore pitched the final three innings, giving up an unearned run and three hits while striking out four.

Colquitt County A pounded out 14 hits, including two each by Connell, Matt Lindsey, Mark Lindsey and Hayden Kudela.

Both of Kudela’s hits were doubles. He drove in two runs.

Connell had a double before his home run and drove in three runs.

Mark Lindsey had a single and a home run.

Zac Goodno, Matt Creech, Payne Newsome, Vann Pitts, Blake Stamps and Ryan Davis also had hits.