MOULTRIE — Quarterback Zane Touchton threw for 374 yards and six touchdowns to lead the Colquitt County eighth-grade football team to a

53-20 victory over Lowndes on Thursday on the Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.

The seventh-grade team completed the doubleheader sweep with a 41-6 victory over the Vikings in a game that featured the third and fourth quarters played under a 6-minute running clock.

On Wednesday in Valdosta, the Colquitt County sixth-grade team raised its record to 5-0 with a 40-0 victory over Lowndes.

Willie Almond scored two touchdowns and Amari Tomblin, Zamari Williams, Ty Lamar and Chad White scored one each for the sixth-graders.

Lamar and Tomblin added 2-point conversions.

“We were very physical on both sides of the ball,” said Colquitt County coach Bobby Cutts.

“We played a great game, fast and physical.”

The eighth-grade game was close in the first half, with Tahj Sanders scoring on 70-yard pass from Touchton with 58 seconds remaining to take a 24-20 lead into the break.

The second half was no contest, with Packers using their speed to great advantage, outscoring the Vikings 28-0.

Sanders had a quite a game himself, catching four passes for 155 yards and touchdowns of 70 and 64 yards.

He also ran a punt back 54 yards for a fourth-quarter touchdown.

Touchton was 14-for-19 and completed passes to eight receivers.

Also catching scoring throws were Jamad Willis, Bill Hicks, Ontavious Carolina and Jessie Lawson.

Willis, who also rushed for 41 yards on five carries, got the Packers on the scoreboard with 2:33 left in the first quarter when he took a screen pass from Touchton and left the Vikings in his wake on a 62- yard scoring jaunt.

Touchton and Willis teamed up on the 2-point conversion pass as well.

After Lowndes tied the game two plays later, Colquitt regained the lead on a 13-yard scoring pass from Touchton to Hicks.

Lowndes scored on the second play of the second quarter, but Pershaun Fann harassed the Vikings quarterback into a incomplete pass on the 2- point conversion.

Lowndes took its only lead on a 12-yard touchdown run with 3:50 left in the second quarter, but again missed the extra point toss and led by only four at 20-16.

The Packers then scored the final 37 points of the game.

The second Touchton-to-Sanders touchdown came with 1:39 left in the third quarter. The lead was 32-20 after Touchton’s 2-point toss to Carolina.

The Packers scored three more times in the fourth quarter with Touchton hooking up with Carolina on a 67-yarder. The 2-point conversion toss to Sanders made it 40-20 with 5:26 left.

Then, just over a minute later, Sanders took a punt to the house and it was 46-20.

The final Packers score came when Touchton found Lawson in the end zone on a fourth down play from the Vikings 13 with 1:01 remaining.

Pershaun Fann kicked the final extra point.

The eighth-grade Packers are now 3-2.

The seventh-grade game was never competitive, thanks primarily to running back Charlie Pace.

In the first quarter, Pace touched the football six times.

The first resulted in a 49-yard touchdown run, the second in a 2-point conversion run that gave the seventh-graders an 8-0 lead just 30 seconds into the contest.

Three minutes later, Pace took a Lowndes punt 53 yards for an apparent touchdown that was called back on an illegal block foul.

After a 22-yard pass from quarterback Imarius Bussie to Zakarion Edwards, Pace scored on a 13-yard run and again ran in the conversion.

Lowndes punted away its next possession and Pace took it 40 yards to the end zone.

The extra-point kick failed but Colquitt was up 22-0.

In the second quarter, Pace took a pass from Bussie and scored again, bowling over the final Lowndes defender as the Packers extended their lead to 28-0.

Lowndes got its only touchdown on a 78-yard run with 6:28 left in the half.

But Daveon Hunt returned the ensuing kickoff 42 yards for a touchdown and Luke Brogdon kicked the extra point and Colquitt was leading 35-6.

Zakarion Edwards closed out the scoring with a 20-yard touchdown run after it appeared he was hemmed in for a large loss. The kick failed but the Packers were up 41-6 with 4:58 left in the quarter.

Bussie completed 6-of-8 passes for 82 yards. Pace gained 62 on two carries and Edwards had 28 on three attempts and caught two passes for

34 yards.

The seventh-graders are 5-0.

The sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade teams will play next on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Newbern Middle School.

The three teams will finish out their seasons on Saturday, Oct. 28, against Tift County at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.