A Bulldogs’ player looks for an opening to make a pass Tuesday during a summer league game in Marianna.
After picking up perhaps their best win of the summer earlier on Tuesday, the Marianna Bulldogs dropped their second game of the day to Port St. Joe 41-30 in Summer League action at Marianna High School .
Marianna never trailed in its 41-28 win over Malone in the first game of the day, but it was the Sharks that dominated the action in the next match-up, jumping out to an early lead and never letting up.
“They just walked out there and kind of slapped us around pretty early defensively,” Bulldogs coach Travis Blanton said of the Sharks. “They made some shots, and they were just more aggressive than we were. They played harder and with a lot more intensity than we did.”
Blanton said that perhaps his players felt a bit too satisfied with their earlier victory over Malone.
“It was like we walked out there and just expected another victory, and St. Joe had something else in mind for us,” the coach said. “Those days of us walking out there and winning because we’ve got that ‘M’ on the chest are gone. We have to work for everything that we get. I think we said, ‘hey, we just beat Malone, so this should be easy,’ but summer is fool’s gold anyway.
“With what we have right now, we have to work hard every night to win. We got hit hard by graduation, so the kids have to learn that every possession counts.”
Port St. Joe led 24-17 at the half, and quickly pushed it into double figures early in the second half.
Marianna got as close as six points, but could get no closer.
“It was a tough ballgame for us offensively,” Blanton said. “Defensively, we probably played well enough to keep us in the game and make it somewhat close. We just could never get over the hump. They jumped on us right off the bat and we didn’t respond well.”
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