MOULTRIE – The Colquitt County baseball team took both ends of a doubleheader on Friday to complete a sweep of its Region 1-6A series with Camden County.
The Packers opened the series with an 11-0 five-inning victory over the Wildcats on Tuesday in Kingsland.
Colquitt finished off the visitors from the coast with 11-8 and 10-5 victories on Friday on Ike Aultman Field at Jerry Croft Stadium.
The victories raise the Packers overall record to 6-6, the first time they have been at .500 this season.
Colquitt also is tied atop the region standings with its 3-0 record.
Lowndes and Tift County swept their region-opening series and also are 3-0.
Camden County, Richmond Hill and Valdosta are 0-3.
With the 31 runs scored against Camden, the Packers could be signaling that their offense is starting to come around.
In Friday’ first game, Brady DeRosso drove in four runs with a solo home run and a three-run double.
After Camden got a single run in the top of the first inning, the Packers scored four times in the bottom of the inning and added two more in the second, one on DeRosso’s line drive homer over the right field fence.
It was his first home run of the season.
Colquitt held what appeared to be a relatively safe 7-1 lead when Camden scored five times in the top of the fifth to pull to within a run.
The Wildcats drew three walks and hit three doubles in the inning.
The Packers regained control in the sixth inning when DeRosso laced an opposite field double to drive in three runs. A fourth run scored on a wild pitch to give the Packers an 11-6 lead.
Camden was not done, however.
The Wildcats scored two runs in the top of the seventh to pull to within three runs and had the bases loaded when Bryce Roberts struck out Jackson Renault to end the game three hours after it started.
The Packers had nine hits in the game.
In addition to the home run and double from Brady DeRosso, Adam Beverly and Bryce Roberts each had a pair of singles.
Bowen DeRosso, Tyson Hobby and Rylan Howell also had base hits.
Ethan Allegood started on the mound for the Packers and gave up one run over his two innings of work.
Cole Holder had control problems, walking three batters and hitting another in two innings of work.
Owen Bennett was charged with four earned runs before Roberts got the save in the seventh.
The four Colquitt County pitchers combined to walk eight batters and hit two others with pitches.
Camden managed just six hits, but four were doubles.
Each of the Wildcats three pitchers allowed at least one run.
In the nightcap, the Packers got a big game from Carter Summerlin.
The sophomore catcher stroked a two-out, two-run double in the second inning and hit his second home run of the season, a two-out, two-run shot, in the fourth inning.
A five-run fifth, highlighted by Hayden Hembree’s triple, put the Packers up 9-2.
Bowen DeRosso’s two-out run-scoring single in the sixth gave the Packers a 10-2 lead.
Camden scored three runs in the top of the sixth before Roberts got Titus House to look at a called strike three to complete the sweep.
In addition to Summerlin’s productive game, Jake Walker had a double and two singles in Game 2.
Cook Tompkins went the first four innings and gave up two runs, just one of which was earned.
Roberts finished up.
Each struck out three Wildcats.
The Packers will be back at Packer Park to face Lowndes at 6 p.m. Tuesday for a single game to start their second three-game region series.
The doubleheader will be at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Lowndes.