Chasing history, one bucket at a time!!

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Chasing history, one bucket at a time!!

February 11, 2015 by David Svien

Makana Stone glides up-court, looking to put the rock in the bucket. (John Fisken photo)

Makana Stone, looking to put the rock in the bucket. (John Fisken photo)

The greatest scorer in CHS girls’ basketball history, Brianne King.

The history of CHS girls' basketball lives on in these books. If anyone sees a copy in the CHS library, let me know. (Greg Oldham photo)

History lives in these books. (Greg Oldham photo)

Makana Stone is gunnin’ for the legends.

As the Coupeville High School girls’ basketball squad prepares for the district playoffs, the Wolf junior is enjoying one of the best scoring seasons in recent memory.

But, since CHS is notoriously spotty in keeping track of its sports history — outside of the snazzy wall of track records — one wonders where she stands.

While anything before the 1990’s resides in a giant black hole at this point, we were able, with the help of former Wolf coaches Willie Smith and Greg Oldham, to track down most of the “golden era” (late ’90s to mid-2000’s) of Coupeville girls’ basketball.

And, what that shows is Stone (with 331 points in 20 games) has currently put together the 7th best scoring mark in the last two decades.

With her average sitting at 16.6 a game — third-best by a Wolf player in that time period — she could make a serious run up the chart if Coupeville stays alive in the playoffs for any duration.

The Wolves (15-5) are guaranteed two games at districts, and could pick up a third.

Win two and they advance to regionals with the dream of being the first CHS hoops squad to return to state since 2005-2006.

The honor roll of Wolf scorers as we know it (and, as soon as this hits print, maybe we’ll hear from someone who has score-books from the glory days of Marlene Grasser that’ll blow these away):

1) Brianne King (2000-2001) 446 points/24 games/18.6 avg

2) King (2002-2003) 442/28/15.8

3) King (2001-2002) 386/28/13.8

4) Zenovia Barron (1996-1997) 378/23/16.4

5) Barron (1997-1998) 376/22/17.1

6) Ann Pettit (1997-1998) 363/25/14.5

7) Makana Stone (2014-2015) 331/20/16.6 avg

Also of note: Lexie Black had 295 in 26 games in 2004-2005.

Plus, King tossed in 275 during her freshman year of 1999-2000, giving her 1,549 points during her splendid career.

We’re 99.2% sure that’s a school record.