Too much Dorian Jordan spelled the end of the Middletown boys basketball team’s four-game winning streak Tuesday night at Princeton High School.

Jordan, Princeton’s 5-foot-8 senior guard, entered averaging 16.5 points per game. He had already surpassed that by halftime in leading the Vikings to a 74-48 Greater Miami Conference win.

With Jalin Marshall back from the Under Armour American football all-star game but in street clothes due to an injury suffered in the game, the Middies had no answer for Jordan.

By the time the night was over, Jordan had paced the aggressive and physical Vikings with 31 points and seven rebounds in snapping a two-game losing streak to improve to 6-5 overall and 3-3 in the GMC.

“We make no excuses,” Middletown coach Josh Andrews said after his squad fell to 7-6 and 4-2. “They outplayed us, they were better prepared than we were, they had better effort than we did and they did what they wanted to do.”

Following an abysmal first quarter, Andrews challenged his crew.

The Vikings had been more passionate in closing the opening quarter with a 15-2 run to take a 23-10 lead and Andrews was not happy.

Wheter it was the fiery speech by Andrews between quarters or just a matter of enough being enough, Middletown junior Vincent Edwards decided it was time to take over.

Edwards scored all 20 of Middletown’s points in the second quarter – outscoring the Vikings by six – to cut the halftime deficit to 37-30 but the Middies couldn’t maintain the run coming out after the break.

“I was proud of the first-half resiliency,” Andrews said. “It could have been a lot uglier if we hadn’t shown some resiliency, but we played without passion and focus in the second half when they started to pull away.”

Middletown got as close as 38-32 on a basket by Kobie Johnson with 6:47 left in the third quarter, but the Vikings went on a 10-2 run and a 9-2 run to push the lead to 57-38 with less than a minute left in the third quarter. The Middies never got closer than 20 in the final stanza.

Edward led the Middies with 30 points and was the lone Middletown player to reach double figures. Just four Middies dented the scoring column as the squad had 22 turnovers and was 20 of 44 from the floor.

Middletown returns to action Friday at Oak Hills. The Middies handed Oak Hills a 65-45 defeat at Wade E. Miller Gymnasium on Dec. 14 for their first win of the season.