The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association had a busy and eventful week. It’s fourth week of competition was highlighted with team winning streaks, some dandy finishes and solid individual performances. Through all of it, MacKenzie Smith of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour’s Lake City 56ers emerged as the Royale Player of the Week Award winner. Royale is a founding...Read More
There are two games on the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association slate Wednesday. Both are makeup games scheduled earlier in the season. There’s an all-Halifax clash in the Nova Scotia capital at 7 p.m. Halifax Hornets will be home to Halifax Thunder at Mount St. Vincent University. The hosts come into the contest at 2-4. Visitors...Read More
The Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour and Miramichi Her-Icanes stayed hot, hot, hot over the weekend. The top two teams in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association kept rolling with two wins apiece as they try and separate themselves from the rest of the pack. Lake City is now 7-1 for first spot. Miramichi sits...Read More
It was a busy Saturday afternoon in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. When the dust had settled, the Fredericton Freeze, Miramichi Her-Icanes and Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour all prevailed. At Mount St. Vincent University, Fredericton assumed control late in the first quarter and would go on to tame the host Halifax Hornets, 86-58...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is in full swing, with Season IV already producing some outstanding story lines and competition. That doesn’t mean the MWBA can’t think about continuing to grow. Expansion almost materialized for the second season in a row last winter when it appeared the league was ready to embrace Truro, NS, as...Read More
This is indeed a large weekend looming in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. After two games Wednesday created more logjams in the standings, there are five outings on the weekend that may – or may not – clear up some early season won-loss records. With that in mind, we take a look at the league...Read More
Every player in the lineup hit the scoresheet and the visiting Halifax Thunder cruised to a 74-38 win over Halifax Hornets in Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play Wednesday night. The game was played at Mount St. Vincent University. Thunder improved to 2-2 with the win. Hornets fell to 1-3. The balanced Thunder offence was paced...Read More
The Fredericton Freeze were cold as ice early. Things thawed in the second half. Fredericton rode a dominant final 20 minutes, fuelling it to an 83-54 win over visiting Moncton Mystics in Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play Wednesday at the Lady Beaverbrook Gymnasium. The Freeze moved to 3-2 on the season. Moncton fell to 0-4....Read More
Yes, the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association focuses on what happens on the hard court. But, the MWBA also supports many women in sport and that could not resonate more with the news its marketing and social media co-oridinator, Shelby MacIsaac, is about to embark on a major life journey through athletics. The talented member of...Read More
Yes, she did miss some shots. But you had to really look hard to catch balls that didn’t tickle mesh for Grace Lancaster last week. The sharp-shooting Lancaster powered her Miramichi Her-Icanes to a pair of Maritime Women’s Basketball Association victories last week to push the squad into sole possession of second place with a...Read More
