MOULTRIE – Those involved with the Colquitt County soccer program have certainly enjoyed the seven-game winning streak that has opened this season and that the boys team will put on the line against Tift County at 7:30 tonight at Packer Park.

But some might have missed the significance of the Packers’ 3-0 win over Valdosta on February 18.

The shutout was the 250th career victory for Packers coach Jimbo Jarvis, whose tenure with Colquitt County began back in 1999 when he started the girls program.

He coached the Lady Packers for 14 seasons, posting a 154-94-7 record. He took over the boys team in 2013 and has a 98-34-8 record leading the Packers.

For 22 seasons, he now has a 252-128-15 record with Colquitt County.

“It just means I’m getting older,” said Jarvis with a laugh.

Jarvis, who graduated from Colquitt County High before soccer was one of the athletic department’s offerings, said he has been fortunate to have had some outstanding athletes and assistant coaches during his career.

A number of those athletes were on display on Tuesday when the Packers rallied from a 3-0 second-half deficit to defeat Thomas County Central 5-3 in Thomasville.

When the Yellow Jackets scored their third unanswered goal in the sixth minute of the second half, the Packers chances to remain unbeaten looked faint.

Central scored the first goal of the match with what Jarvis called a 25-yard “laser, a thing of beauty. I just had to step back and clap for that one.”

Jarvis said the goal appeared to leave his team shell-shocked and in the 39th minute, the Yellow Jackets scored again on a free kick.

The Packers found themselves down 2-0 at the break.

“We had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity after opportunity, especially early,” Jarvis said. “We had a pretty intense conversation at halftime. Let’s just say we made some adjustments.”

Those adjustments did not come to immediate fruition, however, when the deficit became three goals so quickly in the second half.

“Then it finally clicked,” Jarvis said.

And clicked like a light switch being flipped up.

The Packers scored four goals over a six-minute span to take a 4-3 lead and added another in the closing minutes for what has to be one of the most remarkable of Jarvis’s 252 career victories.

Jason Gallardo got the Packers on the board with a goal in the 48th minute and Colquitt pulled to within one when Enrique Salgato scored with an assist going to Gilbert Velasquez.

In the 53rd minute, Josh Aviles tied the match with a penalty kick.

A minute later, Salgato’s second goal gave the Packers the lead. Velasquez assisted on that one as well.

John Reid Jarvis punched one in a second touch off a penalty kick to close out the scoring.

“To be down 3-0 in the second half and come back to win is a testament to what these guys have in them,” Jarvis said.

The Packers will try to increase their record to 2-0 in Region 1-7A when Tift County visits tonight.

“I expect a hard-fought game,” Jarvis said. “It’ll probably come down to who finishes best. We are very comparable. We mirror each other in a lot of ways.”

The Tift County boys are 4-2 and are coming off a 3-1 win at Thomasville on Tuesday. Tonight’s match will be the region-opener for the Blue Devils.

The Colquitt County girls lost 2-1 to Thomas County Central on Tuesday and will take a 2-4-1 record into today’s game against the Lady Devils, who are 3-2-1.