MOULTRIE – When Rickards High of Tallahassee visits the Hawg Pen for the Packers annual Homecoming Game on Friday, the Raiders will try to accomplish a feat that hasn’t happened since early in the 2008 season.

They will try to shut out the 2-2 Packers.

The Georgia High School Football Daily noted on Tuesday that Colquitt has not been blanked in the last 214 games, the longest active streak in the state.

Seventeen teams have streaks of 100 more games without being shut out.

Colquitt County’s is the longest.

Camden County, also of Region 1-6A, has the second-longest such streak at 195 games.

The state record is 227 games set by Fitzgerald High from 2005 to 2021.

The last time the Packers were held without a point was on September 19, 2008, when they were playing their fourth game under new head coach Rush Propst.

The Packers, who were 2-8 the previous season, had won their first three games, including a season-opening 54-7 victory over Randolph-Clay in which quarterback John Michael Harrison threw six touchdown passes and Eric Key returned a kickoff 99 yards for a score.

Colquitt then beat Thomasville 10-7 on a Tyler Dismuke field goal and a touchdown pass from Harrison to Quin Roberson.

The Packers went to 3-0 with a 38-0 victory over Wayne County. Harrison threw three touchdown passes to Key and Travon Littleton rushed for 139 yards.

But the Packers were not prepared for Randy McPherson’s Vikings, who won 51-0 at Sonny Martin Stadium in what was the worst defeat of Propst’s career.

It was one of four shutouts pitched that season by the Vikings, who went 12-1 and reached the state quarterfinals.

But the Packers have not been held scoreless since, although twice they managed just a field goal.

The first time was on September 9, 2016, when the Packers fell 34-3 at No. 1-ranked Roswell.

Colquitt’s only points came on a 20-yard Ryan Fitzgerald field goal with six seconds left in the first half.

The only other time the Packers were held to just a field goal during the streak was three weeks ago when Ryan’s brother Brett converted on a 25-yarder just 52 seconds into the second quarter in the 14-3 home loss to North Gwinnett.

Rickards will bring a 3-1 record to Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium.

Last Friday, the Raiders held Chiles to just a touchdown and an extra point in a 14-7 victory.

Colquitt County will try to end a two-game losing streak when they entertain the Raiders.

The Packers are coming off the 14-3 loss to North Gwinnett and a 47-35 defeat at the hands of Lee County last Friday.

The Rickards-Colquitt County game will be one of just two involving Region 1-6A teams on Friday.

Richmond Hill, 4-0, will play host to Buchholz High of Gainesville, Fla.

The Bobcats are 3-1.

Camden County (5-0), Lowndes (5-0), Valdosta (5-0) and Tift County (2-3) have completed their non-region schedules.

The region portion of the schedule will begin on Friday, September 27, when Lowndes visits Colquitt County, Tift County goes to Richmond Hill and Camden County travels to Bazemore-Hyder Stadium to meet Valdosta.