MOULTRIE — Neither Colquitt County all-star team was challenged on Monday in the two opening games of the Georgia Recreation and Parks Association’s 12-and-under sub-District III tournament being held at the Magnolia Sports Complex.

Both took mercy-rule victories.

The Colquitt County A’s won in three innings over the Americus Spartans 16-1.

The B-team scored the winning run in the bottom of fourth in a 14-2 victory.

The A’s will meet Crisp County at 5:30 p.m. today in a second-round game. Crisp drew a first-round bye.

The B-team will meet the other Americus team in the tournament, also at 5:30 p.m. today.

The tournament will continue today, Wednesday and Thursday, when the championship game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

The tournament winner will face the survivor of the other sub-district tournament being held in Cairo in a best-of-3 series to determine the district’s representative to the GRPA state tournament.

The district championship series will begin Monday at the Magnolia Sports Complex.

The Colquitt County A team had shown a propensity for knocking the ball out of the yard in its pre-District tournament play.

But the A’s didn’t need to play long ball on Monday.

Among the A’s 12 hits were four doubles, including one by Jonah Bozeman in the bottom of the third that gave his team a 15-run lead that stopped the game.

Colquitt County scored five in the first inning and 10 more in the second.

Bozeman, Gabe Mobley, Mack Hathcock, John Gray and Clayton Brown each had two hits. Daniel Mobley and Preston Berry each had one hit.

Bozeman, Daniel Mobley, Gabe Mobley and Hathcock each had doubles.

Clayton Brown went the first two inning and gave up two hits and struck out four.

John Gray pitched the top of the third and gave up a run on a walk and three wild pitches. He struck out three.

The B-team need just six hits to score 14 runs in the second game, taking advantage of nine walks and two hit batsmen.

Colquitt County scored five in the first, two in the second, six in the third and got the game-winner on two walks and three wild pitches in the fourth.

Dalton Dillon led Colquitt County offensively with a run-scoring single in the first and a two-run homer in the second.

Ryan Chatman, Austin Hunnicutt, Wade Hawes and Nick Nichols had the other hits. Chatman and Hawes each drove in a pair of runs.

Dillon started on the mound and struck out six in two innings. Chatman pitched the final two innings, giving up both runs on two walks and an infield hit. He fanned three.