CLINTON — After making a living off blowing out teams all season, Trinity Episcopal Day School came into the MAIS Class A championship game with the mindset of “finishing.”

As it turned out, “finishing” meant blowing out yet another opponent as the Saints cruised to a 50-6 win against Marshall Academy Saturday afternoon at Mississippi College’s Robinson-Hale Stadium.

Trinity scored just two plays into the game, and that would end up being all the Saints needed as the Trinity defense shut down yet another opponent for Single-A supremacy.

“This is a dream come true,” Trinity head coach Josh Loy said. “This is amazing. This group of kids — this is a special group. The reason we were here is because they love each other, they care about each other and they’re here for each other. They did that as well as they could today, and they played a very complete ball game and probably our best game of the season.”

Trinity rushed for 303 yards, with the bulk of the yardage coming from sophomore Dee Fleming, who tallied 140 yards on just 11 carries. Quarterback Michael Whitley completed 6 of 15 passes for 162 yards and three touchdowns while not throwing an interception.

Things seemed to go the Saints’ way from the beginning, as Marshall fumbled on the first play of the game on its own 11-yard line. Trinity recovered, then one play later, scored on an 11-yard run by Trey Hall. Caleb Cross’ two-point run gave the Saints an early 8-0 lead with 11:43 left in the third.

The Saints’ offense struggled to move the ball the rest of the first quarter as Whitley wasn’t able to complete a pass until less than a minute to go in the quarter. Marshall, meanwhile, scored its only touchdown of the game on a fourth-and-1 run by Jordan Harris, who broke several tackles to take it in 56 yards for the score. The Patriots were unable to hit the two-points pass, and the Saints still led, 8-6, with a minute remaining in the first.

Whitley finally completed a 9-yard pass to Quinton Logan late in the first quarter, and after that, things seemed to click for the senior signal caller. He made several plays with his feet, including a 50-yard touchdown run with 10:16 left in the second quarter to put the Saints ahead 14-6. Trinity’s two-point try failed.

On the ensuing Marshall possession, Whitley intercepted a pass from Patriots quarterback Dakota Dailey, and one play later, he turned around and connected with Logan on a 66-yard touchdown pass with 9:52 remaining in the second. The two-point pass attempt failed.

“I needed to get my hands warm,” Whitley said of his early game struggles. “I just needed to settle down and get into the game. After I hit my first pass, I felt like I was in a rhythm, like I was going (finally). It felt good.”

Whitley connected on two more touchdown passes to put his team ahead 34-6 at intermission. He hit Wyatt Boothe from 21 yards out with 3:39 left in the second and connected with Logan again on a 48-yard touchdown pass.

Logan, who finished with three catches for 123 yards and two scores, said it was nice to help his school make history.

“I just wanted to get my team up, get them pumped up,” Logan said. “It was just exciting to be here.”

The Saints put the game away in the third quarter with two more touchdowns on a run of 7 yards by Fleming and a rush of 9 yards by Whitley.

Hall finished with 60 yards on two carries, and Whitley also tallied 60 yards on the ground on nine rushes. Stewart Mallory had 40 yards on four runs. Boothe, Jacob Sandrock and Dré McCoy each had catches for the Saints as well.

Harris was the only Marshall player to have any kind of success on offense, as he accounted for 182 of Marshall’s 204 rushing yards on 15 carries. Dailey was just 1 of 6 in passing for 7 yards, thanks to a Trinity defense that sacked him four times and hurried him numerous other times.

“We knew (pressuring Dailey) was going to be key,” Loy said. “We didn’t feel like he had seen as much speed as we had (to offer), and we felt like having an attacking-style defense and bringing a lot of pressure was going to be key.”

As a state champion, Whitley said he would cherish the memories he made with the 2013 Saints for the rest of his life.

“It’s amazing,” Whitley said. “It’s something you dream about. I can’t even explain it — that’s the feeling.”

Logan said he now understands how special it is being a state champion after the Trinity coaches had several guest speakers talk to the players about it during the week.

“It’s great,” Logan said. “I understand what the guest speakers were talking about, how we’re going to cherish the moment. I’m really living it up right now.”

The win marked Trinity’s sixth state title in school history. The Saints finished the season with a perfect 13-0 record.