MOULTRIE – The Colquitt County girls defeated Valdosta 50-36 on the road on Tuesday and will play Tift County on Monday in the Region 1-6A tournament play-in game.
The Lady Packers finish the regular season 15-7 overall and 4-6 in the region.
Tift County is 3-5 in the region with games against Camden County and Lowndes remaining.
Colquitt and Tift will be either the No. 4 or No. 5 seeds, with the higher seeded team playing host to the play-in game.
If the Lady Devils win their final two games, they would finish 5-5 in the region and play host to Colquitt in the play-in game.
If they split and also finish 4-6, the Lady Packers hold the tie-breaker, by winning one of the two head-to-head matchups by 12 points. Tift County won the other by just 11.
If Tift girls drop both games, they would finish 3-7 and also would finish fifth behind the Lady Packers.
The winner will advance to play Lowndes, but also will automatically qualify for a state tournament berth.
The Colquitt-Tift County loser’s season will be over.
Lady Packers coach Stephanie Cody said her team played well defensively in the win over Valdosta and could take some momentum into the game against Tift, regardless of where it will be played.
Valdosta managed just 13 first-half points and just 22 through the first three quarters and fell to 0-9 in the region and 9-15 overall.
The Colquitt County girls also celebrated Amira Walters-Smith scoring her 2,000th career point in the first quarter of the game.
Although her 2023-2024 junior season was her first at Colquitt County, she already had scored 1,108 points in her high school career.
She played her freshman season at Camilla’s Westwood School, a Georgia Independent Athletic Association program in Camilla, where she scored 448 points and averaged 17.2 points a game.
As a sophomore, she moved to Mitchell County High School, where she scored 660 points and averaged 22.8 points a game.
Last year, she scored 492 for the Lady Packers, giving her 1,600 career points heading into her senior season.
She took 1,996 career points into the game against Valdosta.
With her 22-point effort against the Lady Cats, she now has scored 2,018 in her career as the Lady Packers prepare for the postseason.
She scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, including six on a pair of 3-pointers. She also went 4-for-4 from the free throw line.
Walters-Smith is averaging 19.0 points a game this season.

The Lady Packers also got a strong offensive effort against Valdosta from senior Amareyia Knighton, who scored 16 points.
Knighton heads into the region tournament ranked seventh all-time at Colquitt County with 1,254 career points.
Colquitt also got five points from Nacardia Robinson, four from Azaria Battle and one 3-pointer from Calynn Singletary.
Colquitt missed just one of its eight free throw attempts against the Lady Cats.