It’s Basketball New Brunswick’s own version of Old Home Week. Yes, Summerfest is on the minds of many as the popular BNB event unfolds in Fredericton from July 18 to 20, featuring various age classifications and venues across the Capital City. Some 80 teams attended last year’s version of Summerfest, using eight different gyms and...Read More

A return to basketball for Vanessa Soffee has certainly paid dividends. The feisty point guard returned to competitive play when the Fredericton Freeze hit the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association floor this season. Now, she gets to keep playing. The Fredericton product will complete her fifth and final year of eligibility when she suits up for...Read More

Tiffany Reynolds certainly made her mark in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. Playing two seasons in the MWBA with Windsor Edge (now Lake City 56ers) and Halifax Thunder, the athletic and outgoing Reynolds has continued her basketball career with stops in Nicaragua and Australia, where she played last year. Reynolds sits 21st all-time in points...Read More

The adrenalin is over. An action-packed weekend put an exclamation point on a tremendous fourth season of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. Time to catch collective breath of all teams, managers and MWBA administration. But just for a minute or so, ‘There is so much that goes into the operation of the MWBA and so...Read More

For the first time in the four-year history of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association, the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup is going to New Brunswick. Miramchi Her-Icanes made that history happen with a thrilling, physical and dramatic 78-68 overtime victory over regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour. A remarkable game. ‘We battled and there...Read More

The Halifax Thunder finished its season on a winning note, capturing the consolation title at the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup Maritime Women’s Basketball Association championship weekend. Thunder earned a come-from-behind 71-63 win over Fredericton Freeze in the third place game at the Richard J. Currie Center Sunday. Halifax outscored Fredericton 20-13 in a key fourth quarter...Read More

There will be a new Maritime Women’s Basketball Association champion. And whichever team wins Sunday, it will be the first time in team history to collect the hardware. Miramichi Her-Icanes dispatched the two-time reigning champion Halifax Thunder, 77-68 Saturday night in a stirring PRO•LINE Legacy Cup second semifinal at the Richard J. Currie Center in...Read More

One heck of a game. Not surprising considering the Lake City 56ers and Fredericton Freeze locked horns again in another PRO•LINE Legacy Cup semifinal showdown in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. In the end, the regular season champion 56ers used a dominant 23-9 third quarter outburst and would post a 75-69 win over the Freeze,...Read More

The first semifinal for the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup Maritime Women’s Basketball Association championships opens Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Hometown and fourth seed Fredericton Freeze host regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour at the Richard J. Currie Center. Lake City defeated by five points back on May 25 in Cole Harbour. The second...Read More

Kevin Daley went shopping this week. Purchased several alarm clocks. Set them for 5 p.m. Saturday. That’s when the hometown Fredericton Freeze hit the court, facing the regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour in the lid-lifter of the four team PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship. The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s marquee event is...Read More