Colquitt County’s Tim Sanders leaves three North Cobb defenders in his wake as he heads to the end zone. Sanders carried nine times for 113 yards in the 52-6 second-round victory over the Warriors on Friday in Kennesaw.

MOULTRIE – Colquitt County easily won its second-round state Class AAAAAA playoff game on Friday, defeating North Cobb 52-6 in Kennesaw, but lost a coin flip that would have allowed the Packers to play at home for its quarterfinal game.

After the Packers eliminated North Cobb, Dacula defeated Peachtree Ridge 28-21 setting up a Colquitt County-Dacula third-round matchup.

Since both teams are No. 2 seeds, a coin toss was used to determine which team would play host to next Friday’s game.

The Packers lost the toss and will travel to Gwinnett County to meet the 8-4 Falcons, the Region 8 runners-up, at 7:30 p.m. next Friday.

Colquitt County did its part at damp and misty Emory Sewell Stadium at North Cobb High, where it was difficult to tell which was more impressive in the ousting of the Region 4 champion Warriors: That the Packers were able to score seven touchdowns and put up their highest point total of the season or that they were able to hold a team that had scored 60 points in the first round of the playoffs to a meaningless touchdown with 1:20 left in running-clock fourth quarter.

Col-quitt has now out-scored its two playoff opponents by a combined 93-16. Both of the touchdowns it surrendered in those games came in closing moments against the Packers backups.

The victory sends the Packers to the quarterfinals for the fifth straight year and continues the program’s remarkable postseason run.

Since returning to the postseason in 2009, the Pack is 15-4 in the playoffs, including 12-4 in games played away from Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.

Colquitt rolled up 406 yards on the ground and 112 yards in the air with Sihiem King, who did not play in the second half, carrying 15 times for 155 yards and three touchdowns and Tim Sanders carrying nine times for 113 yards and two scores.

Rafael Merritt came in the game late and ripped off an 88-yard run and had 95 yards on the ground. He scored the final Packers touchdown.

Packers quarterback Daniel Mobley completed 7-of-8 passes for 112 yards and threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Kiel Pollard.

The Packers held the Warriors to 178 yards, including 67 on their final drive.

They intercepted Auburn-committed quarterback Tyler Queen, sacked him three times and forced the Warriors to punt seven times.

Queen completed 14-of-28 passes for 167 yards — 67 of which came in fourth quarter — and a 9-yard touchdown to Drew Techman with 1:20 left with the Packers front-liners on the bench.

But Queen was under duress much of the night and was hit particularly hard while trying to throw from his own end zone in the first quarter. He was down on the field for several minutes before walking to the sideline.

“We hurried him a little bit,” Packers coach Rush Propst said in a bit of an understatement.

North Cobb was credited with 11 yards rushing against the smothering Packers defense.

The Warriors longest run from scrimmage was for 5 yards by J’Vonte Herrod in the third quarter.

Herrod, North Cobb’s leading rusher with 1,114 yards heading into the game, was held to 10 yards on eight carries.

“I’m extremely proud of our football team,” Propst said of his Packers, now 10-2. “We played with the right mindset and with great energy.

“We wanted to make them one-dimensional and when they couldn’t rush the football, we did that.”

Colquitt rolled up 302 yards of offense and scored five touchdowns to lead 38-0 at the half.

And it all started with the Packers totaling minus-8 yards on their first possession.

But it was all Colquitt County the rest of the way.

On their next possession, Colquitt drove 90 yards in just five plays to score on a 39-yard run by King.

Colquitt went up 14-0 after King capped a 45-yard drive with a 1-yard run with 3:14 left in the first quarter.

After Maleek Lewis picked off a tipped Queen pass, the Packers brought out the flea-flicker, with King taking a handoff then flipping it back to Daniel Mobley who threw to Kiel Pollard, who bulled his way into the end zone to complete the 40-yard touchdown pass.

After Jose Vega’s third extra point, Colquitt led 21-0 with 1:54 left in the first quarter.

The Packers got two first downs on their next possession, which fizzled at the Warriors 23.

But Vega kicked a 40-yard field goal to put Colquitt up 24-0 with 8:55 left in the half.

Colquitt’s C.J. Johnson intercepted a short Queen pass two plays later and King followed with a 21-yard touchdown and the Packers were up 31-0.

Taif Smith got the Packers third interception of the first half with 5:41 left in the second quarter. Sanders relieved King in the backfield and carried five times for 42 yards and a 4-yard touchdown run as the Packers led 38-0 with 3:49 left in the half.

In the third quarter, Sanders scored on a 51-yard touchdown run and in the fourth, Merritt scored on a 2-yard run with 6:20 left.

Also on Friday in Class AAAAAA, Lowndes defeated Lovejoy 23-18 and will travel next Friday to meet Norcross, which eliminated Brookwood 32-9.

Norcross is the only No. 1 seed remaining, after North Cobb, Lovejoy, Hughes, Alpharetta, Camden County and Archer each went down on Friday.

McEachern edged Hughes 22-21 and next Friday will face Collins Hill, which eliminated Alpharetta 48-0.

Camden County was shocked at home by Hillgrove for the second time in four years, losing 34-31. Hillgrove will play host to North Gwinnett, which eliminated previously unbeaten Archer 34-32.

Also on Friday, 13-0 Hoover advanced to the Alabama Class 6A semifinals with a 22-21 victory over Florence.