MOULTRIE — Moments after he led his team’s short but well-deserved celebration after its 10-7 victory over Thomasville on Friday at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium, Colquitt County Coach Rush Propst urged caution.

The Packers, now 2-0, have Wayne County, another non-Region 1-AAAAA opponent, next Friday before league play starts on Sept. 19 on the road against defending Class AAAAA state champion Lowndes.

“I’m not ready to tell anybody we can win in this region yet,” Propst said after the game. “If we start to look ahead to Lowndes, will lose to Lowndes and we’ll lose to Wayne County and we’ll be 2-2.

“We need to concentrate on Wayne County and Wayne County only.”

Wayne County, which plays in Region 2-AAAA, is 0-2 after losing its opener 12-0 to Appling County and falling on Friday to Bradwell Institute 28-13.

The Packers played solid and opportunistic defense in dealing Thomasville its third straight excruciating loss.

Although the Bulldogs rushed for 215 yards on 50 carries — they did not complete a pass in five attempts — the Packers forced seven punts and allowed just the one touchdown.

And Thomasville’s lone score was as controversial as the Packers’ first.

Jeffrey Dyson bolted 28 yards for the fourth-quarter touchdown on a play in which he appeared to have been stopped at the Packers 20.

The Packers first score came on a 35-yard field goal by Tyler Dismuke on the final play of the first half and followed a play that had the coaching staffs of both teams barking at the officials.

On a third-and-4 from Bulldogs 21 with 19.4 seconds left in the half, Packers quarterback John Michael Harrison completed a quick pass to the sideline to Blake Stamps, who was unable to get out of bounds to stop the clock.

The officials did not indicate a first down or stop the clock and returned the ball to the hash mark, where Harrison spiked the ball on what appeared to be fourth down with 2.9 seconds left on the clock.

The Packers sideline complained that the completion to Stamps had been enough for a first down.

The Bulldogs argued that the ball should be theirs following the spiked ball on fourth down.

The officials huddled, spoke to both coaches, then waved off Harrison’s spike and said the pass to Stamps had, in fact, been enough for the first down.