MOULTRIE — Rylan Howell drove in the team’s first run of the season and three pitchers allowed no runs and just one hit as the Colquitt County AAA baseball team, made up primarily of sophomores and freshmen, opened its season with a 2-0 victory on Monday at Lee County.

The Colquitt AA team, which includes primarily ninth-graders, managed just one hit and fell in the other game of Monday’s doubleheader against the Trojans.

Howell singled in Eli Johnson with the only run the AAA team would need in the second inning.

Carter Penuel, the courtesy runner for catcher Carter Summerlin, who had tripled, scored the other run in the fourth inning as Howell reached first when the Lee County catcher could not hold a third strike.

Colquitt had just three hits — singles by Howell and Davis Lightsey and Summerlin’s triple — but Owen Bennett, Bowen DeRosso and Jesus Vazquez made sure the Packers did not need more.

Bennett went the first two innings on the mound and gave up Lee County’s only hit. He also walked a batter, but also struck out four.

DeRosso went 2.2 innings, did not give up a hit and fanned six Trojans.

Vazquez got the Packers’ 11th strikeout to end the game.

The AAA team is scheduled to play next on Monday, Feb. 19, when Thomas County Central visits Ike Aultman Field at Jerry Croft Stadium. First pitch will be at 7 p.m.

In the AA game, the Trojans scored two runs in the second inning and four more in the fourth en route to the shutout win.

Penuel had the Packers only hit, a single.

The AA team is scheduled to play next at Valdosta on Tuesday, February 13.

The Colquitt County varsity team’s season-opener against Thomas County Central was postponed by Monday’s rain and will be made up at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14.

The varsity Packers now were scheduled to open on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at home against Cairo.

The Colquitt County’s seventh-grade team’s Monday game at Lee County West also was postponed and will be made up on Friday, March 8, in Leesburg.