MOULTRIE – When one run scores over two games, chances are you are not going to sweep the baseball doubleheader. In fact, the exact opposite is more likely in the cards.

A rough February continued for the Colquitt County High baseball team with the Georgia-Florida Classic games that took place Friday on Ike Aultman Field at Jerry Croft Stadium. Two teams from the Jacksonville area combined to limit Packer scoring to a single point with Ponte Vedra High getting the 3-0 shutout and Creekside High taking a 4-1 victory in the cold conditions.

The Ponte Vedra game ended in a way rarely ever seen with a play that rarely ever works. Because of the game-ending pick-off at first base (which was first a bluff throw to third base), it meant Colquitt County only left 11 runners on base instead of 12 over seven innings. In fact, the bottom of the seventh was the only time one Packer was left stranded; two times the home team left the bases loaded without scoring and two other turns ended with two LOB.

Ponte Vedra senior Porter Jordheim was put to work by the Packers for most of his five-inning start on the mound. Opposite him was Colquitt sophomore Pershaun Fann, and with the defensive work by a pair of fellow sophomore Whatleys he was matching the visiting Sharks with zeros on the scoreboard. Cole Whatley was his catcher, and he threw out a base stealer at second to end a scoreless top of the first.

Shortstop Cannon Whatley, two-year varsity starter, two times cut off baseballs going up the middle. That’s how he started a perfect top of the second that featured two strikeouts by Fann.

For all of Colquitt’s base runners, there were only two hits off Shark pitching. Owen Taylor’s two-out single in the bottom of the second gave the Packers two on base, but neither scored. After that, it was more walks and hit batters, but nothing in the clutch to drive somebody home.

Ponte Vedra, meanwhile, used a leadoff walk and two-out single to score on a wild pitch in the top of the third. Cannon Whatley’s second assist starting at practically the second-base bag ended this frame.

Fann, with a runner on and one out in the home third, put down a sacrifice bunt. Lucas Tostenson was that runner, and he took off on the pitch to end up at third base. That was as far as he could go.

Alex Oritz of Ponte Vedra doubled to left leading off the fourth and put the Sharks up 2-0 touching home on a sacrifice fly.

In Jordheim’s last inning of work, he put three runners on base – none on hits – and kept them all there. He struck out four and walked four in five complete.

Fann also pitched five full innings giving up just the two hits, striking out six and walking three.

The Sharks scored one more run off Taylor in the top of the sixth, again using just one hit.

Cole Whatley singled in Colquitt’s half facing Will Lockhart, who also walked one and hit one Packer. Though loading the bases, the left-on-base total reached 10. The Packers drew six walks and had four hit-by-pitch, one each also coming in the bottom of the seventh when Lockhart pulled off the game-ending pick-off.

Tostenson drove in Colquitt’s only run of the ensuing loss to Creekside. His RBI hit came in the bottom of the third as Creekside held a 2-0 lead. But the Knights had two more runs in the fifth while Colquitt had three total base runners afterwards.

Cole Whatley had two hits and Fann one. Jeb Johnson, Garry Hill Jr. and Cais Cook all pitched for Colquitt.