For one quarter Monday afternoon, the Wright City girls basketball team did what it wanted to do.

The Wildcats held Orchard Farm to 11 point in the opening frame of the Orchard Farm Tournament third-place game.

Wright City trailed by six heading into the second, when everything fell apart.

“We just didn’t execute defensively,” Head Coach Fred Ross said after his team’s 50-26 loss. “We work hard on doing the scouting and getting the reports, and we work on them in practice. But then we get into the game and we don’t execute. And that goes back to the coach not getting them to do what they are     supposed to do.”

The Wildcats gave up 20 points in the second quarter while struggling to break the Orchard Farm press.

The Eagles alternated between a man-to-man and 2-1-2 press, which resulted in Wright City turnovers and Orchard Farm layups.

Skylyr Leake led all scorers with 18 points.

“We knew No. 14 (Leake) is their player,” Ross said. “She has that good left hand and she likes to go baseline, and you have to block her out because she jumps out of the gym.

Ross had no trouble calling out Orchard Farm’s offensive sets in the first half, yelling at his players that Leake would drive left along the baseline.

And when the Wildcat defenders were slow to react or stop the drive, Leake scored or found an open teammate.

Ross was worried about Monday’s game, which was postponed Friday night due to inclement weather.

Wright City was unable to practice over the weekend.

“We were playing really well last week and I really wanted to play Friday,” Ross said. “I think we really would have played much better. We came out flat and slow, and they just out-hustled us in the first half. I was really disappointing in how we came out.”

Amy Janowski led Wright City with 10 points and was named to the all-tournament team.

“She was well-deserving,” Ross said. “She probably could have six or eight more points tonight, too.”

The Wildcats successfully chased Orchard Farm shooters off the 3-point line, but we unable to control the defensive glass.

Much of Orchard Farm’s offense came from second-chance points.

“I thought we did a pretty good job of recovering on their 3-point shots, and I think they only had three open looks on threes,” Ross said. “And I think we did a pretty good job on weak-side defense, but they had three or four chances while we stood there and watched them go by us.”

The Wildcats will practice next week while preparing for the Clopton Tournament, which begins Jan. 3.