MOULTRIE — The Colquitt County eighth-grade boys basketball team trailed 13-2 after one quarter against Newbern on Tuesday.

And the eighth-grade Lady Packers found themselves down by six heading into the final quarter.

But both teams rallied to take South Georgia Athletic Conference victories at the Charlie A. Gray Junior High School gymnasium.

Makeba Ponder scored 10 points in the fourth-quarter as the eighth-grade girls rallied from a 29-23 deficit to defeat the Newbern girls 34-31.

“She motivates our team by getting good shots, making her shots and making steals,” Lady Packers coach Tiffanie Young said of Ponder, who led all scorer with 21 points.

The Lady Packers led 18-13 at the half, but were outscored 16-5 in the third quarter.

“We were just going through the motions in the first half,” Young said. “We played with sense of urgency in the second half.”

Colquitt won the fourth-quarter battle 11-2 with Ponder getting 10 of her team’s 11 points.

Dexshalyn Polite and Abbi Beth Paulk each had six points and Ashlee Parrish added a free throw.

The eighth-grade Lady Packers are now 4-1.

The eighth-grade boys had an even bigger hole to dig out of.

The Packers did not get their first basket until Jamiyus Pittman scored from underneath 1:07 into the second quarter.

But Colquitt rallied from what was once a 13-1 deficit and tied the game on a basket and a free throw by Pittman with 2:41 left in the half.

Sebastian Courtney, who led the rally with seven second-quarter points, put Colquitt ahead to stay with a basket with 2:16 remaining in the half.

The second half was all Colquitt County with the Packers pulling away for a 44-30 victory.