One of the top players in the history of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association was rewarded during the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship that concludes Sunday in Fredericton.
Elizabeth Beals-Iseyemi of the Halifax Thunder was named MVP of the MWBA, celebrating its fifth anniversary season.
Beals-Iseyemi, who has spent the past two seasons playing professionally in the German 2.Bundsliga, averaged just under 24 minutes a game for the regular season champion Thunder.
She averaged 15.9 points per game and 8.4 rebounds an outing. She was a plus 20.7 and a key part of Thunder’s success at both ends of the court.
Beals-Iseyemi was also a first team all-star selection in voting done by the league’s eight coaching staffs.
She joined Thunder teammate Justine Colley-Leger, Allie McCarthy of the Fredericton Freeze, Lucy Beaumont of the Halifax Hornets and Maddie Eustance of the Moncton Mystics on the first-team.
Second team all-stars were Fredericton’s Bailey Russell and Ann Bastien, Clara Gascoigne and Aki Kobayashi of the Hornets and Moncton’s Eve Kalala.
The league will crown its fifth champion Sunday afternoon when the Thunder and Fredericton tangle at the Richard J. Currie Center.
Game time is 2 p.m.
The Mystics and Hornets will play in the 11:30 a.m., consolation game.
– Elizabeth Beals-Iseyemi of Halifax Thunder was named MWBA MVP. (TC Sports Media Photo)
