Willie Woodyard scores Colquitt County’s first touchdown in the Packers 27-24 overtime loss to Valdosta on Friday in Valdosta.

 Colquitt County coach Rush Propst minced no words when talking about the Packers 27-24 overtime loss to Valdosta on Friday at Cleveland Field at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium.

“We were out-played and out-coached,” Propst said on Saturday after conceding that he was still “upset and mad.”

“We did not execute at all, anywhere.”

In a game in which they could have won a region championship for the first time since 1999 and received a more more favorable playoff seeding, the Packers had just 46 snaps and 154 yards of offense.

Colquitt had averaged 39.5 points in its previous four games and had not given up more than 19 points in a game before stumbling into Valdosta.

And after averaging 181 yards through the air in their first nine games, the Packer threw for just 68 yards against the Wildcats.

“We just did not show up looking like we were ready to play,” Propst said. “It’s very disappointing and it hurts that we played like that.

“We just self-imploded.”

The Packers are now in the less-attractive side of the Class AAAAA bracket.

They will be at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium on Friday to meet East Coweta, which took third place in Region 1 on Friday with a come-from-behind 28-25 victory over Newnan.

The victory ended a three-game losing streak for the Indians, who will bring a 7-3 record to Moultrie for Friday’s 7:30 p.m. game.

East Coweta was down 19-0 late in the first half, rallied to take a lead then held on for its first victory over Newnan since 2002.

If the Packers can put the Indians away, they will play the winner of the North Gwinnett-Archer game in the second round.

North Gwinnett won the Region 7 championship with a 28-0 victory over Peachtree Ridge on Friday.

The Bulldogs are 9-1 and have won nine in a row since a season-opening loss to McEachern in the Kell Classic at the Georgia Dome.

Archer is 5-5 and is the No. 4 team from Region 8.

If the Packers have to face North Gwinnett, they will have to go to Suwanee to do it.

If the Packers can somehow reach the third round, they are expected to have to face top-ranked Camden County on the day after Thanksgiving.

The game started ominously for the Packers, who dropped two passes on their first series.

Valdosta then took over after a Tyler Yost punt and held the ball for more than seven minutes before having to punt.

Propst said the first pivotal play of the game came when Trey Scott muffed a punt with two minutes left in the first half and Valdosta took over on the Packers 28.

Former Packers Shelby Wilkes then picked up the Colquitt County blitz and threw to Jerald Davis for a touchdown to put the Wildcats up 7-0.

On the first play after the kickoff, Packers quarterback Cole Segraves was intercepted by Maurice Fason and moments later Wilkes threw his second touchdown pass of the half to Demetrius Melvin.

Valdosta led 13-0 at the break, but the Packers battled back to take the lead.

Stacey Blackwell intercepted a Wilkes pass with 7:47 left in the third quarter a Willie Woodyard made the Wildcats pay with a 14-yard touchdown run.

And with 1:14 left in the quarter, Colquitt County safety Dondray Copeland picked up a Jarvis Roberts fumble and ran it back 42 yards for a touchdown.

Oscar Luna’s extra point gave the Packers a 14-13 lead, but it did not last long.

On what Propst characterized as another of the pivotal plays of the game, Wilkes completed a 19-yard pass to Melvin on a third-and-11 to set in motion a 82-yard, 13-play drive that resulted in Wilkes-to-Melvin touchdown pass.

Wilkes threw to Sherrod Inman for the 2-point conversion to put the Wildcats back on top 21-14.

“Shelby just threw the ball up there and our guys kind of looked at each other and then 33 (Melvin) goes up and gets it,” Propst said.

“A lot of our best players did not play well. And that blame has to come first to me, although we all share in it, me, the coaches and the players.”

In other Friday games of interest to Colquitt County fans,  Bainbridge defeated Thomas County Central 27-24 in overtime; Thomasville pounded Tony Long’s Berrien Rebels 35-7; Cairo blanked Americus-Sumter County 42-0; Cook raced past Albany 43-14; Warner Robins won big over Lee County 56-14; Lovett upended Tim Cokely’s Greater Atlanta Chrisian Spartans 35-28; North Gwinnett shut out Peachtree Ridge 28-0; Langston Hughes won over Westlake 40-18; Robert Craft’s North Florida Christian Eagles pounded Florida A&M 41-6 to go to 8-0; Madison County (Fla.) is now 10-1 after defeating Florida State Univerity 39-13; and Carver of Montgomery (Ala.) was eliminated from the playoffs with a 34-27 loss to Murphy.