SHARPSBURG — Seniors Maris Hopper and Carli Pearson went a combined 5-for-7 and drove in three runs, but it was not enough to keep the Colquitt County softball team from falling 7-6 to Parkview on Tuesday and being eliminated from the Super Regional at East Coweta.

Colquitt finishes the season with a 20-12 record. It marks the third year in a row and fourth in last five seasons that the team has reached 20 wins.

The Lady Packers lost to Parkview 4-2 on Monday in their first game of the double-elimination Super Regional before blanking McEachern 12-0 in their second game to earn a return engagement with the Lady Panthers.

East Coweta won all three of its games and will advance to the Class 7A state tournament that will be held Oct. 25-28 at the Columbus Softball Complex.

The first-round games in eight-team, double-elimination state tournament include East Coweta vs. North Gwinnett; North Cobb vs. Brookwood; North Paulding vs. Mill Creek; and Buford vs. Region 1 champion Lowndes.

The Lady Packers led Parkview 4-3 after three innings on Tuesday, but the Lady Panthers got three runs in the fourth and one in the fifth to take a 7-4 lead.

Colquitt closed to within a run in the bottom of the sixth when Hopper tripled in Lilah Thompson and then scored on a wild pitch.

But Colquitt could get no closer when Parkview’s South Carolina-bound pitcher Olivia Kotowski retired the Lady Packers in order in the bottom of the seventh.

Colquitt jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Hopper led off the game with a double and RaJayla McBride and Pearson followed with singles.

After Parkview scored the first of their six unearned runs off Thompson in the top of the second, Colquitt answered when Hopper singled in Libby Wetherington in the bottom of the inning.

The Lady Panthers got two more unearned runs in the top of the third to tie the game 3-3.

Pearson scored on a line out in the bottom of the third and the Colquitt led 4-3.

But Parkview’s four runs over the next two innings proved to be too many to overcome.

Hopper and Pearson certainly went out in style in their final game as Lady Packers.

Hopper had three-fourths of a cycle with a single, a double and a triple and drove in a pair of runs.

The Lady Packers first baseman finished the season with 14 doubles, six triples and six home runs while driving in 42 runs.

She went 7-for-10 in Super Regional and finished her senior year with a .509 batting average.

Pearson was 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and a run batted in on Tuesday.

The Lady Packers shortstop finished with eight doubles, five triples and four home runs. She drove in 27 runs and hit .423.

McBride, Wetherington and Rhylee Tillery added singles against Parkview.

Thompson went the distance in the circle, but was bedeviled by four Lady Packer errors and took the loss despite allowing just one earned run.

She gave up nine hits, including a homer to Kotowski, and walked two.

The freshman right-hander finished with a 7-3 record and a 2.90 ERA.

Chance Pitts, the most successful Colquitt County fast-pitch coach, finishes his eighth season with a 156-87 career record.