MOULTRIE — The final week of the regular season brings little suspense to Region 1-AAAAA.

Undefeated Lowndes, 9-0 overall, No. 1 in Class AAAAA and No. 2 in one national poll, has clinched the league title for the second straight year, regardless of what the Vikings do at Warner Robins on Friday.

Northside-Warner Robins, 5-1 in the region with its only loss coming at the hands of the Vikings, will be the runner-up and also host a first-round playoff game in its first season in Class AAAAA. The Eagles finish their regular season on Friday at Colquitt County, which won its first region game on Saturday against Houston County.

The other two teams that are going to the playoffs has been decided, just not what berth each will have.

Coffee and Tift County are each 4-2 in the region and will meet on Friday at Jardine Stadium in Douglas.

The winner will take the No. 3 seed and will play the No. 2 team from Region 2 in the first round of the playoffs that begin a week from Friday.

The loser will play the Region 2 champion. Stephenson, Union Grove and Martin Luther King Jr. are tied atop the Region 2 standings with 5-1 records heading into Friday’s games.

Coffee and Tift County go into the Friday’s matchup coming off vastly different games.

The Blue Devils clinched their playoff berth by shutting out Valdosta 17-0 at Brodie Field.

The Trojans also were at home, but had to face Lowndes and were blanked 21-0.

The Vikings became the first team to shut out Coffee this year as they clinched their region title.

Lowndes rolled up 347 yards of total offense, including 290 on the ground.

Again, state Player of the Year candidate Greg Reid was the difference.

Reid scored once on a 57-yard pass from quarterback Khary Franklin and again on a 17-yard run. The University of Florida commit ran for 105 yards on 14 carries and moved into second place in Region 1-AAAAA in rushing with 804 yards on just 71 carries.

The Vikings defense again was stout, holding the 7-2 Trojans to just 91 total yards, including just 64 on the ground as Lowndes shut down Coffee running back Melvin Loving, who has rushed for 656 yards and 13 touchdowns this season.

In Tifton, the Blue Devils put a stake in the heart of the Valdosta playoff hopes, dealing the Wildcats their fifth loss of the season.

Valdosta, with nine players either out or playing injured, managed to stay close in the first half, which ended in a 0-0 tie.

But Tift County scored the first two times it had the ball in the second half.

Jared Davis returned the second-half kickoff to the Valdosta 30 and three plays later Jordan West connected on a 44-yard field goal to put Tift up 3-0.

On Valdosta’s next possession, Tift’s Dominique Rich blocked a John Mark Stephenson punt and Jakiel McCray picked the ball and ran it back 20 yards for a score and the Blue Devils were up 10-0.

Later in the third quarter, Tift quarterback Malcolm Dixon completed a touchdown pass to Davis and the Blue Devils defense did the rest.

Valdosta was held to just 10 yards rushing on 29 carries as the Tift County defense registered 12 tackles for lost yardage. The Wildcats also completed just 5-of-20 passes for 71 yards.

Also last Friday, Northside won its annual battle with Warner Robins, scoring on its first play from scrimmage and going on to 14-0 victory at McConnell-Talbert Stadium.

The Eagles’ K.J. Morton ran the opening kickoff back 59 yards and on the first play, quarterback Joe Scott threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Eddie Aaron.

Northside added another touchdown on a 4-yard run by Xavier Bacon in the third quarter.

Bacon, the region’s leading rusher, finished the game with 159 yards on 28 carries and now has 1,139 on 208 carries and had scored 14 touchdowns. He is the only back in the region over 1,000 yards.

Warner Robins falls to 5-4 overall and 3-3 in the region and will play out the string when its plays host to Lowndes on Friday.

The Demons hold a 32-19 edge in the rivalry with Northside, but the Eagles now have won four in a row and 10 of the last 13.

In a Saturday game in Warner Robins, Colquitt County and Houston County put their identical 3-5 overall and 0-5 region records on the line.

And the game was a dead heat through the first two quarters with the teams taking a 14-14 tie to the locker rooms at the half.

But the Packers got a 14-yard touchdown pass from sophomore quarterback Tyler Brown to Jacob Propst in the third quarter and a 3-yard scoring run from Eric Key in the fourth to take a 28-14 victory.

The Colquitt County defense gave up 217 yards in the first half, but just 91 in the second to snap a five-game losing streak.

Brown completed 11-of-23 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns. He also had a 60-yard scoring pass to fellow Tevin King in the second quarter.

King had 167 total yards with 77 yards rushing and 90 more on five receptions.

The Packers had to overcome five turnovers – two interceptions and three fumbles – to give coach Rush Propst his first region victory in Georgia.

Houston County also turned the ball over five times.

The Bears close out their first season under head coach Greg Robinson on Friday when they travel to Valdosta.