MOULTRIE – No rain fell from the sky, and Cairo High didn’t score any goals, so nothing could spoil the first home soccer match for the Colquitt County High Lady Packers. Four of coach Trey Jones’ players scored, and Julia Warnock went the distance in goal for the 5-0 shutout.

Chloe Gould had two of the goals, and she had the first shot on goal almost five minutes into the first half. As the Lady Packers maintained possession, Ragan Harden outhustled the Cairo backline to take a shot in the box. At 34:07, Colquitt led 1-0.

Lexie McDaniel and Addi Yost did a good job setting up things from the midfield on back, and Keri Brown tried a setting pass from a corner that was smothered by Cairo’s keeper. The visitors from Grady County mounted their first push towards Warnock’s net, going down the left sideline and working the ball into the middle. They took a high shot, but Warnock caught it at 30:20.

Cairo was able to hold on to the ball, but not until Gould stole it away. Alaina Taylor won the ball for Colquitt on a few occasions as the first half moved through the second 10 minutes. Gould shot wide off a pass from McDaniel at 22:40, the first of three attempts for the hosts over a two-minute stretch. Daliza Gachuz and McDaniel worked together for the third shot that was caught in net at 20:20.

Two minutes later officials called Yost for a foul as she broke up a charge. The Cairo 25-yard free kick sailed wide. Down to 15:20 on the clock, McDaniel got loose against two defenders, but the keeper fell on her shot. Gould later took an onside lead only to hit the side of the net.

Yost’s clean stop on Cairo’s end led to a charge for McDaniel, and this time she outran everyone to score Colquitt’s second goal at 12:48.

Almost two minutes later, there was a crowd in front of Colquitt’s net. Hannah Goodno was in that group preventing any good shot attempts, and Warnock got on the ball at 11:15. Chloe Sumner’s work made Cairo take a corner kick at 8:30, but no shots would result.

Gould scored her first goal going against three Cairo players, and at 6:27 until the half it was 3-0 Lady Packers.

To start the second half, Jones saw passing combinations, like Gould to Taylor to Sumner that just missed the target. McDaniel and Sumner found Gould open, and the visiting keeper couldn’t stop the freshman’s second goal at 38:27 (4-0).

Harden, taking passes from Gould and Taylor, hit one of the posts at 33:20.

Warnock had her touches in the second half, catching a 30-yard free kick at 26:45. Yost, Goodno and Sugeili Gachuz excelled on Jones’ defense; the Lady Packers stopped the Cairo break at 24:18.

Brown got involved in the offense, her first shot saved after a long dribbling effort halfway through the half. As the Lady Packers stole the ball near midfield, McDaniel passed the ball in the box to Brown for her goal, the final of the match, at 19:11.

Warnock had a save at 17:42, and Ny’Kearian Green got into the action and broke up Cairo’s bid to score.

• Jose Moreno scored four goals, but no goal made everyone at Packer Park erupt more than the one from senior Ellis Lilly in the second half of Colquitt’s 9-2 win against Cairo. It was his first goal in his first varsity game.

Coach Jimbo Jarvis said that was a moment showing what high school sports are about, developing players and giving them a chance.

Raymon Garcia, Paulino Munoz and Ruben Gonzalez had shots in the first 10 minutes, but Moreno’s penalty kick at 24:45 finally ended the 0-0 deadlock. Cairo tied the match at 24:06, but as the visiting goalkeeper played away from the net, Colquitt took advantage. Bryan Galardo broke the tie splitting defenders and hitting an open net at 21:46.

Moreno’s second goal was diagonally shot at 19:29. Isaac Malagon led his teammates from the backfield, and Galardo ran it past the keeper for 4-1 at 9:06. Munoz, who had a shot saved four minutes prior, scored crossing the ball on the run at 2:58 for the 5-1 halftime lead.

Moreno had two and freshman Pedro Luna one goal in the second half.