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Makana, unleashed!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Makana Stone is averaging a team-high 16 points a night through the first three games of her sophomore season at Whitman. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

Call her Ms. Double-Double.

Throwing down like a beast for the second time in as many days, Coupeville grad Makana Stone went for 18 points and 11 rebounds Saturday to spark Whitman College to a huge tourney win.

With Stone controlling the paint and freshman Kaelan Shamseldin drilling three-balls from beyond the arc, the Blues bounced Whittier 64-52 in their finale at the Ramada at Spokane Airport Whit Classic.

Whitman, which has played without preseason All-American Casey Poe so far, is 2-1 on the season.

A huge key to that success? Stone.

As a freshman, the former Wolf was a starter on a Whitman squad which went to the Elite Eight of the NCAA D-III women’s tourney. As a sophomore, she is fast becoming the focal point of the Blues offense.

Stone has hit double figures scoring in every game (10, 20, 18) and leads Whitman at 16 points a night.

With her 11 boards, which ties her best single-game college performance, she pulls within one carom (27-26) of veteran Emily Rommel for the team lead in that category, as well.

Her shooting has been locked-in from the opening tip of the season, as Stone is hitting 58% (15-26) from the floor and 86% (18-21) from the free-throw line.

She’s #1 on the Blues in free throw percentage and #2 in field goal accuracy.

That last stat is a little skewed, as the only teammate Stone is chasing, Anissia Hughes, has built her 60-58% lead while taking far fewer shots, hitting 6-10 from the floor.

Playing against Whittier, Stone divvied up her points, throwing down six in the first quarter, adding five more in the third, than closing like a champ with seven in the game-clinching fourth.

Her back-to-back double-doubles landed Stone a spot on the All-Tournament team.

Shamseldin, who hit six bombs from three-point land Saturday, added 23 points.

Whitman returns to action next weekend, when it plays in the Kim Evanger Raney Classic Nov. 24-25. The Blues play Walla Walla University and the Evergreen State University.

Killer Kailey hits the floor:

Stone wasn’t the only former Wolf to play in a college basketball game Saturday, as her former teammate, Kailey Kellner, suited up for D’Youville College in New York.

Kellner netted two points off a jumper, while also piling up a rebound, assist and steal as the Spartans fell 56-35 to SUNY-Canton.

D’Youville, which is 0-3 on the season, returns to action Monday with a game against Wells College.

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You’ve been Stoned!!

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

   Makana Stone, seen here in action last season, went for 20 points and 10 rebounds Friday as Whitman rolled to a win. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

There were Leopards in the gym Friday, but only one true beast on the court.

Playing with wild abandon, Coupeville grad Makana Stone had the most dominant game of her already-stellar college basketball career, throwing down 20 points and snatching 10 rebounds to spark Whitman College to a 93-75 win over the University of La Verne.

The victory, coming in the opening round of the Ramada at Spokane Airport Whit Classic, evens Whitman’s early-season record at 1-1.

The Blues spring right back into action Saturday, when they play Whittier College to close out the tourney.

Stone, who was a starter as a freshman on a Whitman team which went to the Elite Eight of the NCAA D-III hoops tourney, scorched the nets Friday at a rate not previously seen.

At least at the college level.

Her 20 points, which came on almost-perfect shooting (she finished 6-8 from the floor and 8-8 at the free-throw line), was the most she’s scored as a college player.

Stone’s previous college high was 16 against the University of Puget Sound last season.

After warming up with a four-point, six-rebound first quarter, helping the Blues take a 22-18 lead they would never relinquish, the superb sophomore went off in the third quarter.

Pouring in 10 of her 20 coming out of the halftime break, she accounted for almost a third of Whitman’s 32 third-quarter points.

Stone’s 10 rebounds were just a single carom shy of her college best, as well. She hauled in 11 in a game several times as a freshman.

Whitman, which was without preseason All-American Casey Poe for the second straight game, used its inside strength to annihilate the Leopards of La Verne.

The Blues outrebounded their foes 57-20, with Emily Rommel pulling down 16 to go with her team-high 22 points.

La Verne was led by Clarissa Perez, who netted 29, but needed a ton of shots (12-25 from the floor, 1-6 at the line) to get there.

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Wolf grads tip off new journey!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , , on November 15, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   Makana Stone (left) and Kailey Kellner, seen here in their younger days, kicked off new college basketball seasons Wednesday night. (Amy King photo)

And so it begins.

Coupeville High School grads Makana Stone and Kailey Kellner officially began their college basketball seasons Wednesday, though both players may not be totally pleased with the end result.

Kellner, a freshman, made her debut in New York with D’Youville College, playing 11 minutes in a 68-47 loss at Keuka College.

Way, way across the country, in LaGrande, Oregon, Stone and her Whitman College teammates experienced something they rarely dealt with a year ago, falling 73-64 to host Eastern Oregon.

Whitman:

The Blues, coming off of a season in which they fell just short of the NCAA D-III Final Four, entered their opener ranked in the top 10 in both national polls (#6 on D3hoops.com and #9 on WBCA.com).

Wednesday, though, Whitman was playing without senior Casey Poe, a preseason All-American, and a five-point halftime lead melted away under a 27-point third quarter barrage from Eastern Oregon.

While the Blues were taking their first shots of the season, the Mountaineers are already locked in, boasting a 4-1 record prior to tip-off.

Stone, who became a starter midway through last season, did her best to lead the resistance.

She finished with 10 points, tore down a team-high five rebounds, and managed to get a steal and an assist on the same play.

On that one, Stone pilfered the ball, then fed freshman Kaelan Shamseldin, who knocked down one of her four three-balls on the night.

Shamseldin and Maegen Martin tied for team-high honors with 12 points, while Stone, who took Whitman’s first shot of the season (nice trivia fact) scored six of her 10 in the second half.

Whitman, which started 14-0 last season, returns to Washington with back-to-back games on the schedule this weekend.

The Blues are playing in the Ramada at Spokane Airport Whit Classic, with games Friday (University of La Verne) and Saturday (Whittier College).

D’Youville:

Kellner, who blossomed into a three-ball shooting sniper in Coupeville after unexpectedly arriving one day from England, is now off on a new adventure in Buffalo.

The Spartan have a 17-player roster, with 15 of those hoop stars hailing from New York.

Then you jump all the way across the USA to Washington state, where Kellner and CeDrice Howard, a sophomore from Curtis High School, form the small, but vital, West Coast arm of the basketball crew.

Getting some quality floor time right out of the gate, Kellner received the ninth-most minutes of any Spartan on opening night.

While she missed both of her shots in her first game, she snagged a rebound and may have begun to shape a second career as an enforcer.

Keuka College, which bolted out to a 43-21 lead at the half and then coasted in for the win, was much more physical, at least on the foul chart.

The KC Wolves out-fouled D’Youville at a 2-to-1 rate all night (26-13 overall), but Kellner was the lone Spartan to slug right back, picking up a team-high three fouls.

Just call her Killer Kailey.

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She’s back, and still kicking fanny!!

Posted in Basketball, Wolves in college, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

   One game into her sophomore season of college basketball and Makana Stone is already at the front of the pack. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)

The season hasn’t officially started, and already Makana Stone is on fire.

The Coupeville High School grad kicked off her sophomore basketball campaign at Whitman College with a 13-point, eight-rebound performance Nov. 2 in an exhibition game against The Master’s (Calif.) University.

Paced by Stone, the Blues, who are coming off a run to the Elite Eight in last year’s NCAA D-III women’s tourney, rolled to a 72-47 victory.

While the win doesn’t officially count on Whitman’s win-loss record, it was a nice tune-up before the start of the regular season.

That’s Nov. 15, when the Blues, ranked #6 in preseason polls, play at Eastern Oregon in a non-conference game.

After that comes a pair of tournaments, one in Spokane and one in Walla Walla, as the season gets into full swing.

In the exhibition opener, Whitman gave time to all 14 players on its roster, but none shone brighter than Stone, who worked her way into the starting lineup midway through her freshman season.

She pumped in her game-high 13 points on 6 of 11 shooting from the field, tossing in a free throw to round out the effort.

Stone also dealt out two assists and made off with a steal to go with her eight rebounds, while putting in 24 minutes on the court.

Fellow returning players Emily Rommel (11 points, five rebounds) and Maegen Martin (10 points, nine boards) were strong as well, while freshman Kaelan Shamseldin netted 12 points, all off of three-balls.

Whitman was savage on the glass, out-rebounding its foes 50-30, while limiting the Mustangs to an ice-cold 23% shooting performance.

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A farewell lap!!

Posted in Swim, tagged , , , , , on March 18, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Cole Weinstein

He went out with a splash.

Coupeville High School grad Cole Weinstein wrapped up a very-successful college swim career this weekend with an appearance at the NCAA D-III Swim and Dive Championships in Shenandoah, Texas.

A three-time First-Team All-League Pick during his run at Whitman College, Weinstein swam in three events at the national meet.

He finished 18th in the 400 IM in a time of 4:02.20, while also claiming 24th in the 200 breaststroke (2:06.44) and 28th in the 500 free (4:35.66).

Weinstein’s time in the 500 free was a PR, while he missed making the final in the 400 IM by less than a second.

Whitman sent four swimmers to nationals this year, the most in one season in school history.

Weinstein, who also swam at nationals as a junior, was joined this time around by Mara Selznick, Tai Hallstein and Clark Sun.

A senior at Whitman, Weinstein is majoring in film and media studies.

Before heading to Whitman, he had a very successful run with the North Whidbey Aquatic Club and competed in the pool for Oak Harbor High School, like older sister Rachel, since Coupeville doesn’t have a facility or team.

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