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Blues, Stone keep hot streak burning

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone answered the call one more time Friday, going off for 19 points and 10 rebounds in a Whitman win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The appetizer course? Delicious.

Kicking off a big weekend of hoops action, the Whitman College women’s basketball team routed visiting Lewis & Clark College 78-47 Friday night behind 19 points and 10 rebounds from Coupeville’s Makana Stone.

Now, the Blues, 3-0 in Northwest Conference play, 11-1 overall, get a stiffer challenge Saturday, when they welcome Willamette University (3-0, 9-3) to town.

The winner will move into a first-place tie with Pacific University (4-0, 10-3), a team Whitman travels to play January 17.

Friday’s game was a bit of a potential trap for the Blues, who are ranked #12 in NCAA D-III play.

Lewis & Clark entered the night with a 1-9 record, and might have looked like easy pickings.

Instead, the Pioneers came out strongly, trailing just 16-13 at the first break, then knotting things up 25-25 at the half.

Whitman was a different team after the break, however, with Stone going off for 15 of her 19 points during a 28-15 third-quarter surge.

Once they had the game back in hand, the Blues closed like savages, blowing Lewis & Clark off the floor to a 25-7 tune in the final frame.

Stone, who led Whitman in both points and rebounds, also made off with three steals and handed off an assist during a crisp 20 minutes of action.

On the season, the former Wolf sits with 182 points, 102 rebounds, 15 assists, 17 steals, and 12 blocked shots, while shooting 73-136 (53.7%) from the floor and 34-42 (81%) at the free throw line.

Friday’s game included another milestone for Stone, as she became just the seventh player in Whitman women’s basketball history to top 1,100 career points.

With 1,110 and counting, the Blues senior is just 35 points shy of catching former teammate Casey Poe for 6th on the all-time Blues scoring chart.

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Straight to the top, not gonna stop!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on February 2, 2018| Leave a Comment »

   Coupeville grad Makana Stone is the #1 rebounder and #2 scorer on the #2 team in NCAA D-III women’s basketball. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Let the beat-downs continue.

Mere days after jumping to #2 in the national polls, Coupeville grad Makana Stone and the Whitman College women’s basketball squad delivered a message.

Blowing open a close game with a tough foe late in the third quarter Friday, the Blues savaged host Lewis & Clark College 75-54 for their 19th straight win.

Whitman, which jumped from #4 to #2 in the most-recent NCAA D-III coach’s poll, sits at 11-0 in Northwest Conference play, 19-1 overall.

The Blues are a game up on George Fox (10-1, 17-3) with five to play, including a meeting with their closest rival Feb. 10 in Newberg, OR, as they chase a conference title.

Having knocked off Lewis & Clark (10-10, 5-6), Whitman heads to Forest Grove, OR Saturday to face Pacific University (3-16, 2-9).

Friday’s rumble with the Pioneers was a fairly close one until the final two minutes of the third quarter.

Clinging to a 53-48 lead at the time, Whitman delivered the KO punch by closing the third with an 11-0 run to thoroughly deflate the home crowd.

Just to make sure they got the point, Taylor Chambers drilled the bottom of the net with a three-ball coming out of the break, stretching the Blues lead to 67-48.

Whitman had three players land in double digits scoring, with All-American senior Casey Poe leading the way with 16. Mady Burdett added 15, while Emily Rommel knocked down 12.

Stone racked up eight points, seven boards, a steal and a blocked shot in her 50th game as a college player.

After playing in 30 of 31 games as a freshman, with Whitman going 26-5 and making a run to the Elite Eight, Stone has appeared in every game this year, starting 19 of them.

She sits with 275 points, 129 rebounds, 34 assists, three blocks and 14 steals and is #1 on the Blues in rebounding and #2 in scoring.

Stone, who is just 17 points from cracking 500 at the collegiate level, is shooting 58% from the floor (117-203) and 77% from the free throw line (41-53) this season.

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Back to kick your fanny!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on February 17, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Makana Stone

   Makana Stone was welcomed to Whitman with a gift of Walla Walla onions. She’s returned the favor by throwing down buckets. (Eileen Stone photo)

The supernova has returned.

After sitting out a game for concussion protocol, Makana Stone returned to the hard-court Friday, helping Whitman College to a 63-61 win over visiting Lewis and Clark.

The victory avenges an earlier loss to the Pioneers and lifts the Blues to 21-3 overall, 12-3 in Northwest Conference play.

Whitman is tied for second place headed into its regular season finale Saturday afternoon.

The Blues will welcome George Fox (20-4, 12-3), a team it beat 82-74 the first time around, for a game which will decide seeding for the league tourney.

Stone, a freshman from Coupeville, returned to the starting lineup Friday and threw down nine points while grabbing a team-high seven rebounds.

Five of her caroms came on the offensive glass.

Now 6-1 as a college starter, Stone had sat out Whitman’s win over Pacific Lutheran last Saturday after getting smacked hard in the face a night earlier in a tussle with Puget Sound.

She returned to that showdown after sitting out a quarter and still led the Blues in scoring and rebounding, but had some dizziness the next day and her coach took a precaution and sat her against a 1-21 team.

Everything was back to normal Friday, as Stone put in a strong 23 minutes of floor time for the Blues.

The game was a tight one, with Whitman up by five after one quarter, before Lewis & Clark knotted things at 30-30 headed into halftime.

A 19-17 edge in the third was the difference, as the two squads battled to a 14-14 stalemate in the fourth.

Three Blues hit double digit scoring, led by Chelsi Brewer with 14.

Casey Poe and Maegan Martin added 12 apiece, while Stone and Alysse Ketner both hit for nine.

The former Wolf spread out her offense across all four quarters, with her biggest bucket coming late in the game.

Grabbing an offensive rebound in a one-point game, Stone went right back up and drilled a jumper with 54 seconds left on the clock to stake Whitman to a 62-59 lead it would not relinquish.

It was one of three times she scored off of offensive boards in the game.

For the season, Stone has 144 points (6.3 a night) and 136 rebounds (5.9).

She’s second on the team in rebounding and field goal percentage (51.6% on 64 of 124), while also collecting 24 assists, nine blocks and 12 steals.

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