MOULTRIE – Rush Propst will seek his 100^th victory as Colquitt County’s head coach when the Bishop Sullivan Catholic High football team buses down from Chesapeake, Va., to take on the Packers in next Saturday’s Homecoming game.

But after what he called a sluggish 27-0 shutout of Valdosta on Friday on the Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium, Propst said he might have to wait until next season to get the landmark win.

“If we don’t get better as a football team, we might have won our last game,” he said, clearly frustrated with the way his team has performed, especially over the last three games. “We might not get No. 100 (this year).

“We could be 5-5.”

The 5-1 Packers will face two teams with losing records in their final four regular-season games: Bishop Sullivan, now 2-3 after falling 3-0 to Our Lady of Good Counsel, and Camden County, also 2-3 after losing 38-13 at McEachern.

But both teams concern Propst.

Bishop Sullivan is still ranked No. 1 in Virginia according to MaxPreps and the Packers must travel to Kingsland to meet Camden County in their Region 1-7A opener on October 13.

The other two opponents waiting down the road offer legitimate concern.

Tift County raised its record to 6-0 after defeating Coffee 33-31 on Friday on a field goal with 5 seconds remaining.

In Valdosta, Lowndes blanked Shiloh 55-0 and is 5-0 and ranked No. 2 in Class 7A. Many believe the high-scoring Vikings could be the best team in the state.

The Packers turned in their second shutout in their last three games on Friday, although to be fair, they are sandwiched around a 42-25 loss at Brookwood.

“I am happy with the defense,” he said of the unit that played without starting free safety and team leader Kaleb Dawson, who has suffered a medial collateral ligament injury to his knee. “I thought we played well. Anytime you shut out Valdosta, that’s big.”

The Packers made the evening miserable for Valdosta quarterbacks Jude Art and Tate Rodemaker, sacking them five times.

Colquitt’s second touchdown came when Samari Louis stripped the ball from Rodemaker and Marcus Anderson picked up and raced 35 yards to the end zone with 24 seconds left in the game.

The Wildcats passed for just under 100 yards, but counting the yards lost on sacks and an 11-yard loss when the first snap of the game sailed over Ard’s head, the Valdosta had an unofficial 65 yards in total offense.

Valdosta’s deepest penetration was the Packers 21 with 7:41 left in the half, but Jay Ward then blocked Davis Baldwin’s 38-yard field goal attempt.

The Wildcats crossed midfield just one more time the rest of the way and that ended at the Packers 44 when a Carter Boatwright sack led to a fumble recovered by Louis.

But Propst clearly does not think his team’s offense is playing to its potential.

The Packers scored just one offensive touchdown and had to settle for four Ryan Fitzgerald field goals.

Quarterback Steven Krajewski completed 14-of-20 passes – including his first 10 in a row – for 154 yards, but did not throw a touchdown pass.

Ty Leggett gained 113 yards on the ground on 17 carries and scored Colquitt’s only offensive touchdown on a 2-yard run in the second quarter to cap the Packers’ most impressive drive.

Counting three sacks, the Packers managed just 156 yards on 42 attempts.

“What really disappointed me is that we couldn’t run the football,” he said. “We’re getting whipped at the line of scrimmage.”

Colquitt has scored more than 28 points just one time and that came in the 35-21 win over Tucker in which the Packers played their most consistent half of football, scoring four touchdowns in the final two quarters.

“We just played sluggish tonight,” Propst said and it came against a Valdosta team that has fallen to 1-4 after winning the Class 6A state championship last season.

If two of the field goals had been touchdowns instead, Propst might have been feeling better when he climbed into his truck to head to the field house.

Propst coached the game after coming back from St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., where his son Jacob, a receiver on Colquitt County’s 2008 and 2009 teams, underwent a six-hour heart surgery.

Propst termed the procedure a heart ablation and said it was needed to stabilize his son’s heartbeat.

Jacob had not had a stable heart rate for two months, Propst said, adding that his son is now doing fine.