MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County basketball teams swept a pair of non-Region 1-7A games against Dooly County on Tuesday on the William Bryant Court with key region games looming on Friday.

The 68-42 victory over the Lady Bobcats leaves the Lady Packers just one win away from their fourth-straight 20-win season.

The Colquitt girls, now 19-4, can reach that milestone on Friday when they travel to Lowndes for their region finale.

A victory over the young Vikettes — a team Colquitt defeated 60-30 on Jan. 10 — will have added significance if Camden County can find a way to knock off Tift County the same night.

A Colquitt win combined with a Tift County loss would give the Lady Packers the top seed in the Region 1-7A tournament, which will be held next week on Colquitt County’s home court.

Colquitt County and Tift County are both 4-1 in region games and each has dealt the other its only loss.

But the Lady Devils hold the advantage if the two teams remain tied atop the region standings after Friday’s final region games.

Tift beat Colquitt 63-45 in Moultrie. Colquitt avenged the loss, winning 64-56 in Tifton.

But the tiebreaker goes to the Lady Devils by virtue of their 18-point win. Colquitt won by only eight.

And it would be an upset if Camden County defeats the Lady Devils in Kingsland.

Not only are the Lady Wildcats just 1-4 in the region, they lost their first meeting with Tift County by 24, 59-35.

The Lady Packers also will play Saturday when they face Lee County at home on Senior Night.

The result of Tuesday’s Colquitt County-Dooly County boys game was not available by press time.

The Colquitt girls had defeated Dooly County 67-38 three weeks earlier, but couldn’t seem to shake the visitors in the first half on Tuesday in front of the home fans.

Colquitt jumped out to an 8-0 lead and was up by nine at the end of the first quarter.

The advantage was 10 at the half, but Colquitt eased away in the final two quarters.

Colquitt played without starters Camille Singletary, who missed because of a family illness, and Keyana Harper, who injured a knee in the Jan. 14 win at Lee County.

But the Lady Packers got a big game from Gracie Belle Paulk, who had a season-high 22 points and pulled down 10 rebounds.

The sophomore post player converted several give-and-goes in her dominating effort underneath and scored 14 of her points in the second half.

Janiah Ellis scored just a tick below her average for the season, putting in 21 points.

Ellis hit six straight points in a 1:30 span late in the second quarter to help Colquitt stretch its lead.

Carliss Johnson had 19, including 11 in the second half as the Lady Packers extended a 10-point halftime lead to a 26-point advantage at the final horn.

Audreyanna Rowland scored six, including the first basket of the game, coming just eight seconds after tipoff.

The Colquitt County boys defeated the Bobcats 83-49 in Tuesday’s second game, avenging a 71-68 loss on Jan. 7 in Vienna.

Dooly’s boys fall to 17-6.

The victory raises the Packers overall record to 9-11. They will put their 3-2 region record on the line at Lowndes on Friday against the Vikings, who are 9-12 overall and just 1-4 in the region.

The Packers defeated Lowndes 59-50 in their earlier meeting in Moultrie.

Colquitt’s boys are in second place in the region, behind Camden, which is 4-1.

The Wildcats will try to take first place into the region tournament when they play host to 2-3 Tift County on Friday in Kingsland.