MOULTRIE – Before tonight’s Colquitt County-Lowndes football game at Tom White Field at Mack Tharpe Stadium, the members of the 2007 Class of the Colquitt County Hall of Fame will be introduced.

Four of the inductees – Greg Bright, Tony DeRosso, Parks Hughes and Christopher McCranie – played for the Packers in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

All four played on teams that went 3-0 against Lowndes and all were members of the 1991 team that defeated the Vikings 15-14 when Hughes threw a pass to McCranie on the final play of overtime.

The Packers won nine straight over Lowndes from 1987-1995, but victories over the Vikings have been hard to come by since then. From 1996 through last season, Colquitt is just 1-10 against Lowndes, with the last win in the series coming in 1999.

Ending the current seven-game losing streak to Lowndes will take an upset that would resonate around the state.

Colquitt County goes into tonight’s game with a 2-5 overall record and is 1-2 in the region. The Packers only victories have come in overtime by a 34-31 against Lee County, currently 1-6, and by a 21-7 margin over Houston County, now 1-7.

Lowndes is 6-1, is riding a six-game winning streak and is ranked No. 4 in Class AAAAA in Georgia, the highest-ranked team in the classification with a defeat. The Vikings’ lone loss came in their opener in the rain by a 9-0 score against Harrison.

The Vikings need to win two of their final three games to clinch the Region 1-AAAAA championship. The Packers need to win two of three just to reach the postseason.

Colquitt County goes into the game after an off-week following the win over Houston County that got the Packers back in the playoff picture.

Lowndes is coming off an emotional and satisfying 18-8 victory over county rival Valdosta.

Packers coach Tim Cokely knows his team will have its hands full with a group of Vikings that appears better than the one that trounced his team in the rain last year at Martin Stadium 41-14.

“They are a little more diverse than their championship teams (of 2004 and 2005),” Cokely said. “We know they are well-coached and fundamentally sound.

“We certainly can’t turn the ball over. They are a great team, but in Region 1-AAAAA, anything can happen.”

The Vikings operate primarily out of the wing-T, but have a number of derivations of it, including what is being called its “Tebow” formation – named after the formation the University of Florida uses with its versatile quarterback Tim Tebow taking a direct snap from center.

Lowndes will line up Greg Reid in the tailback position when it decides to go “Tebow.” The formation was successful at times in the victory over Valdosta, although the Vikings abandoned it after a bad snap nearly sailed over Reid’s head.