As summer moves along, it’s time to review some major movement in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s all-time scoring leader list.
The league now boasts six players who have surpassed 400 career points, a benchmark for production through five seasons of MWBA competition.
As the league churns toward its sixth season next spring, it’s interesting to note two teammates are tied for the overall scoring lead, both amassing 456 career points.
The Fredericton Freeze duo of Eva Tumwine and Allie McCarthy share the leading mark of 456.
Tumwine, who has played all five MWBA seasons in a Freeze uniform, has appeared in 41 career games and has averaged 11.1 points an outing. McCarthy, who has played 30 games, brings a 15.2 points per game mark.
McCarthy recently signed a professional contract and will begin her new career overseas, playing in Portugal’s first division. In fact, she will be teammates with two players in Portugal who are amongst the MWBA’s all-time points leaders in Karissa Kajorinne and Abby Miller.
Breaking the Freeze duo is Courtney Donaldson of the Dartmouth/Cole Harbour/Preston’s Lake City 56ers. Donaldson has amassed 449 points, averaging 14 points a game.
The Freeze comes into view again with Bailey Russell sitting fourth all-time with 433 points. She averages 15.5 a game.
Former league MVP Lauren Rainford tore up the league in two seasons with Miramichi HerIcanes and is fifth with 419 career points. Kajorinne amassed 400 points and still owns the league’s highest points per game average at 21.05. Rainford is second at 20.95 PPG.
Former MVP Kaylee Kilpatrick starred in the MWBA and fell four point shy of the magical 400 mark with 396 points with Saint John’s Port City Fog.
Veteran Jasmine Parent is the league’s all-time leader in games played with 49, all with the Halifax Hornets. Parent has missed one regular season game her whole career and is eighth with 386 points. Elizabeth Beals-Iseyemi of Halifax Thunder, who is coming off two professional seasons in Germany 2.Bundsliga play, is tied for ninth with Jenna Jones of the Moncton Mystics with 381 points. Jones played three straight seasons for Moncton, took a season off, but returned this year to lead a young Moncton squad.
Miller comes next with 322 points while Alaina MacMillan, who played professionally in France and spent MWBA time with the Hornets and Thunder, carved out 319 points. Courtney Thompson, who played for the Fog and Freeze, is the last player to surpass the 300-point plateau, scoring 302 in 30 games.
Port City’s Amelia Mitchell, another player who has appeared in all five seasons, would be next to join the 300 point club, finishing her fifth campaign with 285 points.
The MWBA thanks Allan April of Halifax for his historical statistical data.
– MWBA five-year veteran Eva Tumwine is tied for the all-time league points race. (Fran Harris Photo)
