The road to a dominating offensive season started right away. It was May 14, in fact, during opening day Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play in Fredericton. Karissa Kajorinne erupted for 36 points to lead her Windsor Edge to a dramatic, 71-68 win over Saint John’s Port City Fog in that contest. For Kajorinne, the offence...Read More
The Fredericton Freeze needed a victory to assure itself a first-round playoff bye. Grace Simpson made sure that happened. Simpson scored 17 points – including nine in the decisive fourth quarter – to help the Freeze down the Moncton Mystics, 75-65 in the last regular season game in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association on June...Read More
Next step, playoffs. After a remarkable 27-month build up and the first-ever Maritime Women’s Basketball Association regular season behind us, it’s time to pursue the Legacy Cup. It all gets under way Friday at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax with all six teams landing in the Nova Scotia capital. Quarter-final Friday opens at 6 p.m....Read More
Fredericton Freeze clinched top New Brunswick seed and the automatic semifinal bye that comes with it. Freeze, playing at home, downed Moncton Mystics, 75-65 in a back-and-forth outing on Sunday. It all means the playoff scenario has been completed for the Legacy Cup this weekend in Halifax from Friday through Sunday. Halifax Thunder and Freeze...Read More
Halifax Hornets posted their eighth win of the season, this one a road triumph, downing host Windsor Edge, 58-49 Saturday in Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play. The game marked the end of the regular season for both teams. Hornets finished 8-2 and Edge is 4-6 as the teams prepare for next week’s championship weekend. The...Read More
There are some facts. Halifax Thunder has finished the inaugural Maritime Women’s Basketball Association season undefeated, riding a perfect 10-0 campaign into next weekend’s Legacy Cup championship. Halifax Hornets are going to finish second overall and second in Nova Scotia, but still have a game to play, that one coming Saturday afternoon, a 2 p.m....Read More
Moncton Mystics have won two of their last three Maritime Women’s Basketball Association games. What does that mean? Plenty. It means the Mystics and Fredericton Freeze will do down to the wire Sunday for the chance to be the top New Brunswick team and earn a coveted bye into the league’s Legacy Cup semifinals June...Read More
Halifax Thunder completed a difficult task. Finishing the regular season undefeated. Halifax did exactly that, posting a perfect 10-0 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association record, following a 74-64 win over host Windsor Edge on Thursday. The Edge is now 4-5 and hosts Halifax Hornets on Saturday to win up the regular season for both teams. Haley...Read More
Big win, big game. Jenna Jones has done everything in her power to keep the Moncton Mystics’ offence in motion this Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. She certainly played a massive role in helping provide Moncton with its first win of the season. For her efforts, the former University of Prince Edward Island Panther, has been...Read More
Halifax Hornets scored 52 first half points and didn’t let off the gas, rolling to a 108-50 win over Moncton Mystics in Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play Sunday. The game was the final outing for all six MWBA teams who gathered in Moncton for six outings. Halifax moved its record to 6-2 and remains four...Read More
