MOULTRIE – Jordan West kicked a 22-yard field goal with three seconds left giving Tift County a 30-27 victory over Coffee on Friday in Douglas, enabling the Blue Devils to claim Region 1-AAAAA’s No. 3 seed to the state playoffs that begin this weekend.

The Blue Devils, whose only region losses this season were to Lowndes and Northside, will go to Lithonia to meet M.L. King, the Region 2-AAAAA runner-up, in a first-round playoff game.

Coffee, which finishes 4-3 in the region, will go to Stone Mountain to meet Region 2 champion Stephenson.

The Tift County-Coffee game was the only Region 1-AAAAA contest on Friday with playoff implications.

Lowndes, which finished off its perfect regular season with a 35-14 victory over Warner Robins at McConnell-Talbert Stadium, had already claimed the region championship. The Vikings will be at Martin Stadium to face Luella, Region’s 2’s No. 4 team, this weekend.

Northside had already clinched the No. 2 spot in the region and finished strong by defeating Colquitt County 31-7 in Moultrie on Friday.

The Eagles, 9-1 overall and 6-1 in the region, will be at home this weekend to play host to Union Grove.

Warner Robins (3-4 in the region), Valdosta (2-5), Colquitt County (1-6) and Houston County (0-7) failed to make the playoffs.

Tift 30, Coffee 27

On the play before West kicked his game-winning field goal, Tift County quarterback Malcolm Dixon and receiver Jarrod Bateman hooked up on a 52-yard pass to the Coffee 5.

West then came on to kick his third field goal of the game.

Coffee had tied the game at 27-27 with 4:51 remaining when receiver Demario Bennett took a reverse handoff and threw to Mike Faulk for a 33-yard touchdown.

Stevan Toomer led Tift County with 100 yards rushing on 16 carries. The Blue Devils held Coffee’s Melvin Loving to just 18 yards on seven carries.

Tift raises its record to 5-2 in the region and 7-3 overall. Coffee also is 7-3 overall and is 4-3 in the region.

The Blue Devils will face a M.L. King team that is 8-2 overall and is coming off a 35-17 victory over Union Grove on Friday. The Lions have lost only to Stephenson and North Cobb this season.

Coffee will face a Stephenson team that is 9-1 with just a 21-14 loss to Luella to mar its record. The Jaguars shut out Douglass 44-0 on Friday.

Lowndes 35, Warner Robins 14

For the third time, Lowndes has finished the regular season with a 10-0 record and the win over Warner Robins was its 24th in a row.

The defending Class AAAAA champions were led on Friday by quarterback Khary Franklin, who rushed for 181 yards on 16 carries and completed 4-of-7 passes for 59 yards.

The Vikings rolled up 465 yards of offense, including 396 on the ground and won despite turning the ball over an uncharacteristic four times.

The Lowndes defense held Warner Robins to just 112 total yards, 73 of which came on a touchdown pass from quarterback W.J. McAllister to Rashad Wynes.

Lowndes will meet a Luella team that is 7-3 and defeated Newton 13-0 on Friday.

Valdosta 17, Houston County 0

The Wildcats finish their season 5-5 by blanking Houston County at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium.

The victory was just the second in the region this season for Valdosta, which misses the playoffs for the second time in three years.

Houston County finishes 3-7 overall and 0-7 in the region under new coach Greg Robinson.

The Wildcats held the Bears to just 93 yards. Houston rushed for just 4 yards in the second half.

Valdosta got a big game from sophomore wide receiver Jay Rome, who had eight catches for 120 yards and a touchdown.

Wildcat senior quarterback Kyle Rowe completed 12-of-17 passes for 113 yards. His final varsity pass went for 51-yard score to Rome. Vashon Johnson rushed for 89 yards on 14 carries and Tim Kier had 73 on eight attempts for the Wildcats.