MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County fast-pitch softball team bused 200 miles to Richmond Hill on Thursday, but made the trip worthwhile, completing a sweep of its Region 1-7A series with the Lady Wildcats.

The Lady Packers, who defeated Richmond Hill 2-1 on Tuesday at Packer Park, duplicated that score in the first game on Thursday, then took the nightcap 3-2.

Colquitt’s girls raised their record to 8-5 overall and are 3-0 in the region standings.

Three Lady Packer pitchers combined to allow just three earned runs — one in each game — and struck out 29 Richmond Hill batters in the series.

After Peyton Arrington struck out 10 in the Tuesday victory, Kamry Paulk got 10 more strikeouts in the first-game win on Thursday.

In Thursday’s second game, starter Lilah Thompson struck out four in 4.1 innings.

Arrington pitched the final 2.2 innings and fanned five more Lady Wildcats.

The Lady Packers trailed 1-0 heading into the top of sixth inning of Game 1 on Thursday, when they got two runs to take the lead.

RaJayla McBride bunted into a fielder’s choice that drove in the game-tying run.

Rheygan Harrell scored what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch.

Paulk then retired the Lady Wildcats in order in the bottom of the the sixth.

In the seventh, she allowed a two-out single, but then grabbed Maggie Reynolds’s line drive to end the game.

The Lady Packers managed just three hits against Richmond Hill starter Adriana Williams, but singles by Harrell and Allie Eure came in the decisive sixth inning.

McBride had the Lady Packers other hit.

Paulk scattered six hits and walked just one batter.

In Game 2, the Lady Packers scored all their runs in the fifth inning.

Richmond Hill scored twice off of Thompson in the bottom of the first inning, but could never push across another run.

Montana Tatum led off the top of the fifth with a single and moved to second on a one-out base hit by Harrell.

McBride then singled in Tatum for the first Lady Packers run.

A two-out pop fly single to left by Arrington drove in the tying and go-ahead runs.

Colquitt had six hits in the second game with Arrington getting two and McBride, Paulk, Tatum and Harrell producing the others.

The Lady Packers will now be off until Tuesday, September 10, when they open their region series with Valdosta on the road.

The second and third games will be on Thursday, September 12, at Packer Park. The doubleheader will start at 4:30 p.m.

Also on Thursday, Camden County completed its sweep of Valdosta with 15-4 and 16-0 wins and sits atop the region standings with Colquitt County with a 3-0 record.

Lowndes defeated Tift County 4-3 in Thursday’s first game, but the Blue Devils won the nightcap 12-1 in five innings.

Tift is now 2-1 and defending region champion Lowndes is 1-2.