King’s Fork High School’s boys’ basketball team recovered from a disappointing overtime loss to Deep Creek High School on Friday by defeating visiting Woodrow Wilson High School 54-33 on Saturday afternoon.

“We’ve had some opportunities before in other games — as in last night and some other games we should have won — where we’ll get up five or six or eight points, and then get into that selfish mode of, ‘OK, we’re up eight, let me see if I can do my thing,’” Bulldogs coach Josh Worrell said on Saturday. “And this afternoon, we did a much better job not doing that.”

King’s Fork followed through on Worrell’s initial goal to win the first quarter, entering the second period with a 15-9 lead. He said his team started out the second quarter well, but then some mental lapses resulted in the Bulldogs managing only an 11-11 tie with the Presidents in the period and a 26-20 halftime lead.

The home team began to take charge in the second half, though, leading 40-25 after the third quarter and finishing the game with the 21-point advantage.

Worrell was pleased with how his players played defensively for at least 16 minutes of play.

“Second half, they did a really good job,” he said. “First half, we did it in pieces, and I told them we just weren’t disciplined enough. We thought we could do it three out of four possessions and be OK, and to beat teams and extend leads, we’ve got to do it four out of four possessions.”

He noted that the 2015-16 Bulldogs are not, at this point, a team that can have lapses on defense and still beat anybody it plays.

“We’re not that talented to do that, but if we listen and do what we’re asked to do, we can compete and have an opportunity to beat anybody we play,” he said.

The Bulldogs listened and did as they were asked when it came to defending Wilson star junior guard Quivon Crittenden.

“He’d been scoring around 15 points a game,” Worrell said. “He was the guy we were making sure if he caught the ball, we want to make sure he gave it up, and when he gave it up, face guard him or just straight deny him so he couldn’t get the ball again, because he’s the orchestrator of the offense.”

Crittenden was limited to eight points, which was the team high for the Presidents.

King’s Fork had only one scorer in double figures, but it had several others on the brink. Sophomore guard Rontre Pope ended up with 11 points and three assists, junior center Raemaad Wright had nine points and 11 rebounds, sophomore guard James Hatton had nine points and five assists and senior guard Drequan Wilson had nine points and four steals.

The Bulldogs began the game in an early hole, but Hatton helped give them life with some great passes inside to Wright.

“They’ve been playing well together the last three or four games,” Worrell said.

The coach noted Wright had a strong start to the season, then he had an extended lull before getting hurt and missing some games.

“He never got back up to where he was playing the beginning of the year, and so the past three games, I’ve been really happy with his performance,” Worrell said. “And it’s not just the scoring performance — it’s rebounding and playing defense with his hands up.”

Continuing his effort to get the Bulldogs to play unselfishly, Worrell said on Saturday that “one of our goals tonight was to make your teammate better, and I think we did a really good job of that.”

King’s Fork (10-8, 5-2) hosted Heritage High School on Tuesday, visits Churchland High School on Wednesday and hosts Lake Taylor High School on Friday.