MOULTRIE – Colquitt County turned the ball over on its first possession of the game and on its first possession of the second half – and once in between – and never gave itself a chance in a 47-35 loss to Lee County on Friday in The Hawg Pen.

The loss, their first in their 13 games against the Trojans, dropped the Packers to 2-2.

It also marked the first time Packers had lost two games in a row since 2017 when they fell to Tift County and Lowndes in the final two regular season games.

The last time Colquitt dropped two in a row on Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium was in 2016 when the Packers lost to American Heritage and Tucker on successive Friday nights.

Lee County, now 4-0, was ranked No. 3 in Class 5A and was a seven-point favorite over the Packers, who had lost to North Gwinnett two weeks before.

Lee took advantage of two similarly puzzling errant snaps in the first half of a game in which it never trailed.

Both gave the Trojans short fields and they turned both opportunities into touchdowns.

The first bad snap appeared to catch Wild Hawg back Jae Lamar by surprise and when he was unable to handle it, it was recovered by Lee County on the Packers 8-yard line just over three minutes into the game.

It looked like deja vu when another unexpected snap flew past quarterback Cohen Lawson and bounced back to the the Colquitt 10, where Lee fell on the ball later in the first quarter.

“You can’t make those kinds of mistakes and win games like this,” Packers coach Sean Calhoun said. “You can’t put your defense in those kinds of situations. You just can’t.”

Then, on the second play of the third quarter, Trojans defensive lineman Alex Smith intercepted a tipped Cohen Lawson pass and returned it 12 yards for a touchdown to put Lee County up 34-14.

And while it was AJC Super 11 running back Ousmane Kromah who was the most notable Trojan offensive back on the field, it was quarterback Weston Bryan who did the most damage on Friday.

The 6-foot-4, 240-pounder ran for four touchdowns and threw for two others.

Bryant rushed for more than 150 yards and passed for 100 more.

Colquitt matched the Trojans with three second-half touchdowns, but never could get closer than 12 points.

The Packers got two touchdown passes from Lawson, the freshman quarterback, two scoring runs from Day’Shawn Brown and a 68-yard scoring jaunt from Lamar.

“We played hard,” Calhoun said of his team. “We could have laid down. But we didn’t. We’re proud of our kids.

“We are going to look adversity right in the face and figure out how to get better.”

Lee turned its first recovery of Packer bad snap into a 13-yard touchdown pass from Bryan to Canton Williams to go up 7-0 with 7:48 left in the first quarter.

The Packers evened the score later in the quarter when a 60-yard run by Brown set up a 13-yard scoring pass from Lawson to Alexis Barge.

Brett Fitzgerald’s conversion was the 191st of his career and set a new Georgia high school record.

He went on to add to his record four more times.

The game was still tied 7-7 when a second poor snap gave the Trojans a first down on the Packers 10 with 29 seconds left in the first quarter.

Bryan threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Kromah on the first play of the second quarter and Lee led 14-7.

The Packers again responded by driving 73 yards in 10 plays to score on a 7-yard touchdown run by Brown with 7:23 left in the half.

But the tie, the last of the game, lasted just two minutes.

Aided by a pair of face mask penalties against the Packers, Lee drove 80 yards to score on a 5-yard Bryan run to take a 21-14 lead with 5:27 left.

And when the Trojans forced the Packers to turn the ball over own downs with 3:22 left, they drove to the Colquitt 4, where Bryan scored his second touchdown of the game.

Lee extended the lead to 34-14 on the second play of the second half when Smith scored on the short interception return.

The Lee County lead went to 41-14 when Bryan scored again from 4 yards out with 6:07 left to go in the third quarter.

But Colquitt retaliated when Lawson and wide receiver Malik Waker combined on a 58-yard pass play deep into Lee County territory and Brown scored from 10 yards out.

And the Packers had one more third-quarter score in them. Lamar got it on a 68-yard touchdown run that brought the Packers to with 13 points at 41-28.

But Bryan countered with his fourth touchdown with 9:06 left in the game to put the Trojans up 47-28.

Colquitt closed out the scoring when Lawson, chased out of the pocket, flipped a short pass to Ramsey Dennis Jr., who took it to the end zone from 26 yards out with 2:35 left in the game.

Lawson completed 7-of-14 passes for 109 yards and the two scores.

Both Brown and Lamar went over 100 yards on the ground with Brown carrying 11 times for 146 yards and Lamar getting 126 yards on 12 carries.

Barge and Ja’Mari Stokes each had two pass receptions.

The Packers will be back home to play host to Rickards High of Tallahassee at 7:30 p.m. next Friday. It will be their final non-region contest of the season.

The Raiders took a 2-1 record into their game against Chiles High on Friday.

Also in Region 1-6A on Friday, Camden County defeated Spruce Creek, Fla., 47-20; Tift County fell to Houston County 42-19; Lowndes defeated Kell 35-13; Richmond Hill blanked Wayne County 42-0; and Valdosta won over South Gwinnett 27-14.