Makana Stone drills a jumper. (Photo property Marianne Maja Stenerud)
Warmups out of the way, and it’s on to the main event.
Makana Stone and the Baerum women’s pro basketball squad utterly destroyed Bergen Saturday in Norway, setting up a meeting Sunday with the undefeated league leaders.
The former Coupeville ace, who missed her team’s previous game with the flu, returned to the court to deliver a 14-point, 10-rebound performance Saturday, sparking Baerum to a 100-25 rout.
The team’s seventh-straight victory, if lifts Stone and Co. to 17-5 heading into Sunday’s royal rumble against Ulriken, which sits at 21-0.
Baerum wraps the regular season Mar. 26 with a game against Asker (16-7).
Saturday’s game tilted in favor of Stone and her running mates from the early going, as they scored the game’s first 10 points.
Up 23-7 by the first break, Baerum stretched the lead out to 39-11 at the half, then went on a torrid 31-1 tear across the third quarter.
Stone added two assists and two steals to her 14/10 double-double, while teammate Julie McCarthy matched Bergen by herself, pouring in a game-high 25 points.
On the season Andre Stone’s lil sis has racked up 396 points, 247 rebounds, 52 assists, 57 steals, and 11 blocks.
The #3 scorer in CHS basketball history, Makana Stone is in her second season of pro hoops, having played in England as a rookie.
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