STOCKTON — The Weston Ranch High boys varsity basketball squad fell to 0-3 in the young season, losing Wednesday to Lodi.In the opening round of the McDonald’s Classic – Edison and Chavez are co-hosting the 16-team field through Saturday – the Cougars fell 81-78, unraveling down the stretch to the scrappy Flames.“We let the game get away from us,” said Weston Ranch coach Ryan Bono. “We didn’t take care of the ball.“We didn’t do the dirty work and the little things (it takes to win).”Included was fighting and diving for loose balls, not to mention boxing out on the boards.“That’s what Lodi did against us,” Bono added.The Cougars have now lost by a combined seven points, suffering earlier two-point setbacks to Berkeley and Vallejo. They’ll play the loser of the Oakland-Natomas game at Chavez at 8 p.m. today.Bono is hoping that his team can turn around its fortunes.“We have to make a choice to outwork our opponents,” he said.Weston Ranch jumped out to a 14-5 early lead by breaking the Flames’ full-court press for open shots and mismatches underneath the basket.“We tried the press, zone and man-to-man (defenses) to see what works,” Lodi coach Dave Nutting, who used a 10-player rotation throughout the course of the game.Brandon Michelucci came off the bench to help fuel the Flames’ 13-4 rally to close out the opening quarter.