MOULTRIE — Before Colquitt County’s Region 1-AAAAA game against Coffee on Friday at Ike Aultman Field, Packers coach Eric McCranie said it has often been one big inning that has hurt his team this season.

On Friday, it was two big innings.

Coffee scored seven runs in the second inning and eight in the eighth inning to take a 3-hour, 37-minute, 18-14 victory over the Packers.

Down 8-4 in the second inning, the Packers had scratched back to take a 10-9 lead on a two-out single by Bo Williams in the bottom of the sixth.

But the Trojans’ Stuart Drew ripped a two-out triple in the top of top of the seventh to tie the game.

When the Packers were unable to score in the bottom of the seventh, the game went to extra innings.

And the Trojans scored eight runs on seven hits in the top eighth to take an 18-10 lead.

The Packers scored four in the bottom of the eighth — including two on a double by William Oliver – but the eight-run deficit was too much to overcome.

With the victory, Coffee raises its overall record to 17-7 and the Trojans are 7-3 and in second place in Region 1-AAAAA.

The Packers fall to 9-14 overall and 2-8 in the region. With no shot at the postseason, Colquitt will conclude its season with games at Lowndes on Tuesday and at Tift County next Friday.

Also on Friday, Warner Robins defeated Lowndes 5-2 and Valdosta won over Tift County 10-2.

The Colquitt County-Coffee game featured 32 runs and 33 hits, with the Trojans banging out 20 hits, including a solo home run by Corey Davis in the first inning and a two-run shot by Jake Gower that broke the 10-10 tie in the top of the eighth.

After Davis’s homer gave Coffee a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, Colquitt struck for four in the bottom of the bottom of the inning, including three while Williams was at bat. Hayden Kudela stole home for one run, Ben Cauthen scored when the Trojans tied to pick John Michael Harrison off second and Harrison scored when the ball got away after Cauthen scored.

But Coffee sent 12 batters to the plate in the second, scoring seven times on seven hits and one walk against Andrew McDowell.

Colquitt got a single runs in the fourth and fifth to pull to within two at 8-6, before Coffee added another run on a single by catcher Jordan Farabow in the top of the sixth.

The Packers took the lead in the bottom of the sixth with four runs, the last two scoring on the two-out single to right by Williams.

But Drew’s triple in the top of the seventh helped send the game into extra innings and Coffee sent 14 batters to the plate in the top of the eighth, getting seven hits and scoring eight times.

Blake Stamps led the Packers with three hits. Williams, Oliver, Harrison and Kudela each had two.

Cauthen and Patrick Taylor had the others.

Gower led Coffee with four hits. Farabow had three and Drew, Davis, Michael Swinson, Patrick McGlynn, Jared Carver and Josh Magaw each had two.

Carver got the win in relief. Corey Hancock, who was one out away from being the winning pitcher, took the loss.