VALDOSTA – Colquitt County High’s top 10 boys soccer team went to Lowndes High Friday with a chance to clinch a second-straight Region 1-7A championship without any help.

Now, after a night that flip-flopped the league standings more than once, Jimbo Jarvis and the Packers need that assistance.

“We were way uptight, and it showed on the field,” said Jarvis about a 3-0 loss to the Lowndes Vikings. “It was not pretty. There were very few opportunities that looked like Packer soccer. Lowndes did what they had to do. We were mostly chasing after them.

“We didn’t play like that when we lost at Camden. It was similar to our first-round playoff loss last year to East Coweta. We could not play together. There was a lot of worrying about individual play, not team.”

So after the match, Colquitt County, with a 4-2 1-7A record, slipped to third place in the standings.

But on the same night, Tift County High – winless in boys soccer region matches – took Camden County to a penalty-kick shootout in Tifton. That was after trailing 2-1 at halftime. The Blue Devils won on the final kick.

So, Jarvis said that result put Colquitt County in second place, and that they cannot finish any worse. There is still one more regular season match in 1-7A, and that takes place Wednesday when Lowndes goes to Tift.

If Lowndes wins, it is region champions; the Packers are champions with a Blue Devil win, which is what happened at the end of last season.

Packer soccer’s final regular season matches are at home Tuesday vs. Thomas-County Central.