TIFTON — Most of the playoff football teams in the Tiftarea know where they will be next week.

After securing the No. 4 seed out of Region 1-AAAAA with a 45-12 victory over the Colquitt County Packers Friday night, the Tift County Blue Devils will be on the road in Kingsland to face the Camden County Wildcats.

The winner of that contest will face the winner of the East Coweta-Stephenson game.

With a 27-20 loss to the Valwood School Valiants Friday, the Tiftarea Academy Panthers will be on the road Monday night for a mini-region playoff at the Brookwood School.

Tiftarea, the Southwest Georgia Academy Warriors and the Valiants all ended the Region 3-AA race with matching 1-2 records. So the three teams will meet in Thomasville at the Brookwood stadium to decide the No. 2 seed from the league.

The event will begin at 6 p.m. and will have Tiftarea facing Southwest Georgia. The playoff will be done like an overtime period. There will be a coin toss and then one team will take over on the 25-yard line. The teams will take turns from the 25 and the first team that loses a round will lose that playoff.

For example, if one team kicks a field goal, the other team has to at least kick a field goal to stay alive.

After the Tiftarea-Southwest round, Southwest will take on Valwood. If Southwest wins both of those games, they would take the event as the first team that wins two of the mini-games will advance.

“It will be the first team that wins twice, so Southwest could win it in the first two rounds,” Tiftarea coach Marvin Barton said.

Tiftarea will go into Monday without wide receiver Dustin Hill, who was injured Friday night against Valwood.

The eventual winner of the mini-playoff will go into the state playoffs on the road Friday against Holy Spirit Prep, a school from Atlanta.

Fitzgerald defeated the Brooks County Trojans 35-23 Friday night in Quitman. However Thomasville defeated Early County to secure the Region 1-AA championship. That means the Purple Hurricanes of Fitzgerald will enter the state playoffs as the second seed out of 1-AA and will host the Screven County Gamecocks Friday night at Jaycee Stadium.

In the win over Brooks, the Purple Hurricanes had 299 yards rushing on 45 carries and quarterback Brad Taylor was 4-for-10 passing for 65 more yards.

Jemea Thomas led the team on offense with 165 yards rushing on 16 carries. He also had touchdown runs of 56 yards, 19 yards and five yards.

Nick Williams also had a touchdown run of four yards as he rushed 19 times for 108 yards.

R.J. Davis added a 29-yard touchdown catch from Taylor.

Trenton Pruitt added eight rushes for 37 yards.

Also out of Region 1-AA, the Cook High Hornets knew they would enter the state playoffs as the league’s fourth seed before Friday night. However coach Jim Scroggins’ team will enter the playoffs with some momentum as the Hornets crushed Mitchell County 65-32 Friday.

They will enter the state playoffs on the road at a Swainsboro Tigers team that has Tifton connections.

Swainsboro, the champion of Region 3-AA, has former Tift assistant Shane Williamson as head coach and one of the assistant coaches is former Tift County Blue Devil Travis Ellington.

The Irwin County Indians got a 17-8 win Friday night over the Telfair County Trojans. That gave the Indians the fourth seed out of Region 2-A. The Indians will travel to Columbus Friday to face the Brookstone School Cougars, the champion of Region 4-A.

As of Saturday evening the only playoff team in the Tiftarea unaware of where they will be this weekend is the Worth County Rams.

In their regular season finale, coach Harris Rainbow’s Rams clinched a playoff spot with a 57-31 win over the Westover High Patriots. But Worth had to wait on the outcome of Saturday night’s Monroe-Dougherty game to find out where they would play in the first round.

A Monroe win would mean Worth would be the No. 4 seed from Region 1-AAA and would be on the road at Burke County, the Region 3-AAA champion. However a Dougherty win would give Worth the No. 2 seed and a home game against Cross Creek.

In the win over Westover, Worth had a 50-13 lead going into the fourth quarter.

“They scored three touchdowns on our junior varsity and our jayvee scored one touchdown on them,” said Rainbow.

Buster Jackson scored two touchdowns and went over 1,000 yards rushing on the year. Robert Span also had one touchdown receiving and went over 1,000 all-purpose yards during the 2007 season.

Quarterback Sam Youngblood threw three touchdown passed, two to Justin Tukes and the one to Span.

Arthur Blackmon and Jevontae Jackson also scored one touchdown apiece for the Rams.

“Our defense played pretty well. We played well as a team,” said Rainbow, who feels like his squad is peaking at the right time.

In the other game Friday night involving teams from the Tiftarea, the Turner County Rebels closed out its regular season with an impressive 32-0 win over the Montgomery County Eagles.

Turner will not see the postseason, but the win over the Eagles should give the Rebels a positive buzz for next season.

Coach Erik Soliday’s team held Montgomery to minus-2 yards of total offense and no first downs.

Meanwhile Turner had 111 yards through the air and 22 carries for 187 yards rushing.

Justin Moore had two touchdown catches from D.D. Jackson, who also had a touchdown pass to Chris Hill.

Frager Hille also scored on a 13-yard run, while Eric Walker had a touchdown on a 49-yard run.