MOULTRIE — Colquitt County boys basketball fans who attend tonight’s season-opener against Worth County in the Gladys Espy Memorial Gymnasium may remember starters Eugene Woods and Chantting Stevenson from last year’s team.

Woods had a few starts last season. Stevenson got considerable playing time off the bench.

But the rest of the Packers who will go out against the Rams will be getting their first significant playing time.

Tonight’s card features the Colquitt County and Worth County boys B-teams squaring off at 4 p.m.

The Colquitt County varsity girls, who are 1-2 after playing in last week’s Charles Cooper Memorial Tip-off Tournament, will meet the Lady Rams at 6 p.m.

The game will be the first at the Espy Gymnasium for Lady Packers coach Rondesha Williams, who took over the program this year after Joe Parker left for South Effingham.

The varsity Packers, trying to improve on last year’s 11-16 record, will meet the Rams at 7:30 p.m.

The Packers lost nine seniors from the 2006-2007 team, including seven of their top players.

“We’re not as talented as we were last year,” Packers third-year coach Kirven Davis said. “It’s like we are starting over.

“But we’ll be better defensively.”

The Packers are expected to start Woods, Stevenson, senior Rashad Edmonds, junior Dominique Hadley and sophomore Nathaniel Hill.

The rest of the roster includes Brian Berl, Amel Magwood, Dominique Presley, James Taylor, Matt Cannon and Eric Key.

Davis said his team had a strong summer, but in their scrimmage against Cairo on Nov. 13, the Packers fell 74-41.

“I wasn’t disappointed in how we played against Cairo,” Davis said. “We didn’t have Berl and Stevenson, so that’s 20 points we were missing right there.

“We played well the first half, but in the second half, our lack of depth showed.