MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County softball team missed a chance for a 20th victory when it fell 2-1 at Lanier County on Wednesday, but the Lady Packers have another shot at it.

It will be a difficult assignment, however.

The Lady Packers will meet Parkview at 2 p.m. on Monday in Sharpsburg in their first game of the double-elimination Class 7A Super Regional.

Colquitt, 19-10, will try to advance against a Lady Panther team that is 14-10 overall, 9-5 in highly competitive Region 4 and ranked No. 15 in Class 7A.

The winner will advance to a 6 p.m. Monday game against the winner of the game between 25-3 and No. 2-ranked East Coweta and Region 3’s No. 4 team, McEachern.

The losers of the two games will meet at 4 p.m. Monday.

The winner of the two-day event at East Coweta will advance with the survivors of the seven other Super Regionals across the state to play in the Class 7A state tournament that will be held Oct. 25-28 at the Columbus Softball Complex.

The Lady Packers finished second in Region 1-7A with a 10-2 record.

Region 1 champion Lowndes will play host to another Super Regional and will face Archer at noon Monday.

Camden County, which finished No. 3 in the region, will play 23-7 and No. 8-ranked Grayson at North Paulding and No. 4 Richmond Hill will play Region 4 champion Brookwood in Snellville.

Parkview’s record is deceptive, Lady Packers coach Chance Pitts said.

“They are in the same region with Grayson and Brookwood and they beat up on each other,” said Pitts, who is seeking his third-straight season with 20 or more wins and fourth in the last five years. “That record does not necessarily reflect how good they are.”

And the Lady Panthers will send to the circle senior Olivia Kotowski, who has committed to play collegiately at South Carolina.

The Lady Packers hoped to head to Columbus riding a seven-game winning streak, but let a 1-0 lead slip away in the bottom of the seventh on Wednesday in Lakeland in their final regular-season game against another one of the state’s top pitchers.

Colquitt scored its only run in the top of the third when RaJayla McBride reached when the Lanier County catcher dropped a third strike. She scored on a triple by Maris Hopper.

The Lady Bulldogs got the win in the seventh when Kenlyn Taylor was hit by a pitch and scored on a double by Molly Newbern.

An error allowed Newbern to advance to third and she scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by pitcher Jaden Benefield.

Lanier finishes the regular season with a 16-4-1 record.

Colquitt managed just five hits off Benefield, who was the 2022 Class 1-A Division II Pitcher of the Year.

She allowed the triple by Hopper and a double by Carli Pearson, who also had a single.

Kaden Sutton and Libby Wetherington also had base hits.

Benefield struck out 12 Lady Packers.

Sophomore Peyton Arrington was nearly as effective as Benefield, giving up just four hits and walking two.

One of the two Lanier County runs was unearned.

Arrington, whose record falls to 8-4, struck out seven.

She will take a 2.97 ERA into the postseason.

As the Region 1-A Division II champion, Lanier County will play host to Portal in the Super Regional that will start on Monday in Lakeland.

Hopper and Pearson, two of the Lady Packers three senior players, will head into the Super Regional on hot streaks.

Hopper is hitting a team-leading .490 with 22 extra-base hits, including 12 doubles, five triples and five doubles. She has driven in a team-leading 35 runs.

Pearson’s two hits against Lanier County raised her batting average to .427. She has seven doubles, five triples and four homers and has driven in 26 runs.

On Tuesday, the Lady Packers closed out region play with a five-inning 12-0 victory at Valdosta.

Kamry Paulk went the distance, allowing just three singles and no walks. She struck out seven in raising her record to 5-4 and lowering her ERA to 3.93.

Pearson was 3-for-4 with a triple and drove in a pair of runs against the Lady Cats.

Rhylee Tillery and Libby Wetherington each had two hits, including a double, and each drove in two runs.

Hopper had a double and drove in three runs and RaJayla McBride, Lilah Thompson, Lanie Burley, Emily Holweger and Rheygan Harrell each had a single.