MOULTRIE – With the last six shot attempts from the floor failing to connect – and only four points in all produced in the final quarter – Colquitt County High girls basketball suffered a rare loss on the William Bryant Court Tuesday.

Despite the 21 points from Za’Nautica Downs – who had those four in the fourth quarter – the Lady Bearcats from Bainbridge High prevailed in the non-region contest 47-42. This equals the number of setbacks in Moultrie from the entire 2016-17 season, and that was a non-region game also in the Vereen Shootout to Valdosta.

Bainbridge had 17 points from forward Nadia Marshall, 10 in the third quarter. Guard Tytianna Rosebrough knocked down five 3’s in a 16-point game.

Colquitt’s Diamond Hall scored nine points, had five offensive rebounds and three assists. Downs had three steals.

Bainbridge, however, was a different team from the first half to the second half. Marshall, in the first quarter, picked up two player-control fouls. The Lady Packers, in the second quarter, turned things around from being down seven to leading by 12, 30-18, at halftime.

Hall’s transition assist to Tionna Hunt got the second half going, and Colquitt owned its most commanding lead at 32-18. With Marshall back in the game, she was doing all the visitors’ scoring, and from a steal at halfcourt capped an 8-0 run.

Marshall’s first mistake, though, was going all air on a 3, and Hall turned it into more fastbreak points leading Downs’ 2. The Lady Packers were back up by 12, 38-26, as Hall scored a short jumper faking out two defenders.

But that was all for the home team in the third as Bainbridge reeled off the next 10 in a row. The Lady Bearcats penetrated well at times, getting a short jumper off a takeaway to fall with less than a minute on the clock.

Marshall also converted her own steal, and Bainbridge got the basketball back with eight seconds showing. That was enough time to spot for the second made 3-pointer of the quarter.

It was 38-36 Colquitt to start the fourth, and Downs scored four in a row, including 2 from her knockaway steal.

Bainbridge’s game-ending run was 11 unanswered. Rosebrough sliced the margin to one, 42-41, from 3 at 3:20. Marshall found her in the same corner spot on a following possession, and the Lady Bearcats led for good.

Colquitt’s shots came in bunches with the second-chances provided by Janiah Ellis and Naia Benefield. Rosebrough’s penetration late led to one last field goal.

To start the game, Bainbridge streaked out to a 10-3 lead using two 3-pointers to counter the one by Downs off a pick set by Hall. But the visitors gave Colquitt a hard time in the half court and outside the arc. Ellis finally gave coach Rondesha Williams a second made basket in the opening period at 1:41. But that penetration and dish execution by the Lady Bearcats – at the three-second mark – ended the quarter at 12-7.

Hall and Downs combined for five points to start the second quarter and kept Colquitt within four, 16-12. The half had a big turning point at 4:33 when Benefield, fresh off the bench, took her first shot from 3 and drew a foul. That led to a technical on the Bainbridge player.

Foul shooting tied the game, and on the ensuing possession Downs sank 3 off Hall’s screen. Downs then cashed in a steal to cap a 14-0 Lady Packer run (23-16).

Hall was her playmaker self to close out the half, throwing the nifty assist to Hunt when Hunt earned a steal. She blocked a shot, caused a turnover with seven seconds left and fired up a 3 off the dribble good from three steps past the arc at the buzzer.