The Wright City Lady Wildcats were unable to overcome a slow offensive start in their loss to St. Charles Tuesday.
Wright City (6-11) surrendered the first 12 points of the game in their …
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The Wright City Lady Wildcats were unable to overcome a slow offensive start in their loss to St. Charles Tuesday.
Wright City (6-11) surrendered the first 12 points of the game in their 55-36 loss to St. Charles (7-9). Wright City only scored one point in the first quarter and trailed 12-1 after the opening quarter. Jasmin Simpson made one free throw to put Wright City on the board late in the opening quarter.
“Shooting a lot of threes at the beginning and not having anything fall kind of hurt us there,” Wright City girls basketball coach Dustin Elledge said. “Trying to work on driving through and just not able to get the drives to the baskets. That kind of hurt us on that aspect as well. Just shots not going our way.”
Wright City played St. Charles even in the second quarter and had a chance to trim the deficit to single digits right before halftime. Trailing 21-10 late in the quarter, the Lady Wildcats missed a pair of free throws and a fast break layup attempt at the end of the quarter. The Lady Wildcats had multiple fast break opportunities that did not lead to points in the quarter.
“We had definitely a few fast break opportunities,” Elledge said. “We had a few steals. We couldn’t convert on some layups and stuff like that. Which definitely is always a little heartbreaking when you have momentum and stuff and can’t finish that way.”
St. Charles opened the second half on an 8-0 run to take a 29-10 lead, forcing Elledge to call a timeout less than three minutes into the quarter. Wright City responded with an 8-2 run out of the timeout to trim the deficit to 13 points. St. Charles led 37-21 after three quarters.
“I think that just took the wind out of the sails a little bit,” Elledge said. “Trying to fight back into it. We had a couple little runs here and there but nothing to capitalize on or anything like that.”
Elledge saw some good things out of the Wright City defense in Tuesday’s loss, both from their press defense and zone defense. He said turnovers allowed St. Charles to build a sizable lead.
Simpson led Wright City with 13 points. Shiriah McRoberts added eight points for Wright City.
