Middle school baseball
off to successful start

Published 3:08 pm Saturday, February 1, 2025

MOULTRIE – The Colquitt County middle school baseball teams got their 2025 seasons off to a strong start, winning five of their six games.
The B-team and C-teams won both of their games.
The A-team won its opener, but lost 18-17 at Pine Grove on Thursday.
The A-team fell behind 5-0, but rallied to defeat Tift County 10-5 in its season-opener on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at Packer Park.
Singles by Jackson Lasseter and Jaden Chambers put the Packers ahead 7-5 in the bottom of the fourth.
Lasseter led the Packers offensively, going 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and three runs driven in.
Chambers had two hits and drove in two runs and Drake Saunders also had two hits, including a double.
Chambers, Grayson White and Noah Burkett did the pitching.
White went three innings in relief, allowing no runs and just one hit. He struck out one and walked one.
Burkett pitched the final two innings, also allowing no runs and one hit. He walked three and struck out three.
Despite banging out 13 hits, the A-team could not hold off Pine Grove on Thursday and lost a game that went just four innings.
Lasseter went 3-for-4 with a double and a triple and drove in four runs.
Jaxon Rowell went 2-for-2 and drove in three runs and Burkett and Parker Bennett had two hits and drove in a run.
Hayden Butterfield and Burkett also chipped in doubles.
White, Saunders and Braylon Inlow had singles.
The A-team will play next on Tuesday when it travels to Valdosta.
The middle school B-team scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning and went on to defeat Tift County 10-3 at Packer Park to open its season.
Gage Griffin led the way offensively with three hits.
Jaxon Rowell had a triple and Cannon Clements and Cole Stanford added doubles.
Also getting hits in the opener were Brayden Eubanks, John Tyler Southwell, Gavin Gliemmo, Max Bell and Jacob Hamner.
Jett Browning pitched the first inning and gave up two hits.
Stanford and Bell each threw two innings and did not give up a hit.
The pitching again was dominant on Thursday in a 3-2 victory over Cairo, also at Packer Park.
Four Colquitt pitchers combined to strike out 11 batters.
Dawson Dunn threw the first two innings and gave up an unearned run while striking out five Syrupmakers.
Southwell pitched the third inning and gave up a run and a hit while striking out three.
Gliemmo pitched the fourth inning and did not give up a hit. He walked one and struck out one.
Griffin pitched fifth and did not give up a hit while striking out two.
Colquitt managed just two hits, a double by Bell and a single by Stanford.
The Colquitt County C-team opened with an 8-4 victory over Tift County on Wednesday.
The Packers scored two runs in the first inning and put the game away with a five-run fourth.
Colquitt got hits from Carson Summerlin, Clark Deloach, Jerren Harrell, Lane Hutto, JK Howell, Liam Posey and Sam Lancaster.
Harrell drove in three runs.
Harrell went the first 1.2 innings on the mound and was followed by Posey and Hutto.
The next day, the C-team scored eight runs in the first inning and seven more in the second and went on to a 16-0 three-inning shutout of Cairo.
Howell and Deloach pitched for the Packers and did not give up a hit.
Colquitt got doubles from Summerlin and Harrell and singles from Deloach, Howell, Wade Sullivan and Joseph Baker.
The B- and C-teams go on the road next week to play at Berrien on Tuesday and at Fitzgerald on Thursday.