Colin Kirkland (18) slides in safely with the B-team Packers only run in the 12-1 loss to Lawton Chiles on Monday at Packer Park.

The Colquitt County C-team picked up right where it left off last season.

The current C-teamers, all ninth-graders, posted an 18-1 record last year while members of the Colquitt County eighth-grade team.

On Monday, in their season-opener, the C-team pounded out 11 hits in just 22 plate appearances and defeated Tallahassee’s Lawton Chiles 13-3 at Packer Park.

The game was one of three featuring Colquitt County baseball teams on Monday.

In the second game at Packer Park, the Colquitt County B-team fell to Lawton Chiles 12-1 in five innings.

And at the Knuck McCrary Complex, the Colquitt County eighth-grade team lost to Valdosta 12-4.

Among the C-team’s 11 hits were six of the extra-base variety, including five doubles and a home run by Ross Goforth.

Goforth had big game, adding a single to his homer and driving in four runs.

Tony Simpson did what coaches hope for from a leadoff hitter.

Simpson was on base all four times with a single, a double, a walk and by being hit by a pitch.

Catcher Preston Berry contributed a pair of doubles; Jonah Bozeman and a double and a single and drove in three runs; Gabe Mobley had a double; and Daniel Mobley and Ryan Chatman each had singles.

Cole Bryant started on the mound for the C-team and worked the first four innings, walking just one batter and striking out two.

Bozeman pitched the fifth, walking one and striking out one.

“They played pretty well,” coach Greg Tillery said of his freshmen team.

But in the second game at Packer Park, the Colquitt County B-team managed just two hits — singles by Daren Kent and Aubrey McCarty.

Tyler Yost, Kevin Milner and Clayton Brown did the pitching for the Packers.

“Lawton Chiles is pretty good,” Tillery said “They jumped on us early and we didn’t hit the baseball.”

The Colquitt County B-team will play at Tift County at 5:30 p.m. today.

The C-team will be back at Ike Aultman Field at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to play host to Leon High of Tallahassee.

The Colquitt County eighth-graders opened the season just as they did last year as seventh-graders: with a loss. But the seventh-graders lost just two more games.

This year’s team will have to rebound from a loss in which a misplay on a Valdosta bunt led to a big inning.

“We messed up our bunt defense and did get an out,” coach Will Southwell said. “We hurt ourselves big time. We gave them an opportunity and then they got a hit and a triple.”

Valdosta jumped out to a 10-0 and were close to a mercy-rule win when the Packers rallied and sent the game to its full seven innings.

Kyle Ashley led the eighth-grade Packers offensively, going 2-for-3 and scoring a run. Both of his hits led off innings.

Tristin Frazier had a double and a sacrifice fly. Adam Merritt, Warren Funderburk, Houston Massey and Jamarcus Durham each had singles.

Durham’s two-strike base hit led to two Colquitt County runs.

Southwell said the Packers had “four or five” other well-hit balls that were right at Valdosta fielders.

“I told them, all you can do is hit it hard,” Southwell said.

The eighth-grade team will play next on Friday when it travels to Adel to take on Cook in a 4 p.m. game.

The Colquitt County seventh-graders will open at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday against Valdosta at the McCrary Complex.