The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is taking a major step to showcase its championship weekend. To the arena it goes. The MWBA will play its Final 6 championship at Saint John’s TD Station, the multi-purpose facility that is home to the New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Final 12 championship at the Quebec Major Junior Hockey...Read More
The Port City Fog hadn’t played in almost two weeks. It certainly didn’t show early. Or late. Port City hammered home 24 first quarter points and carried that momentum to an eventual 74-66 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association win over the visiting Moncton Mystics on Thursday. The game was played at the University of New Brunswick...Read More
There is a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association outing tonight in Saint John with major implications in the standings. It’s such a big game, that the MWBA selected the outing as its Medavie Game of the Week. And there’s more. A major announcement regarding the MWBA will be made at the contest between host Port City...Read More
Halifax Thunder hit lucky number seven Wednesday night. The Thunder stormed to a 74-67 win over city rival Halifax Hornets in a mid-week tilt at Mount St. Vincent University. The visitors improved to 7-0 and sit comfortably atop the standings, looking to solidify the number one Nova Scotia seed and the first-round playoff bye that...Read More
High-scoring games, theatrical buckets down low, physical battles in the paint and dagger three-balls meant for plenty of Maritime Women’s Basketball Association action last week. Turns out, defence won out when it was time to select the Player of the Week presented by Royale for Week III in the MWBA. The selection committee raised a...Read More
It’s a busy week waiting for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association teams. Eight games in total will unfold with two mid-week tilts and six on the weekend as all six teams are in Halifax. With that in mind, through three weeks of play, it’s your update on scoring leaders in the MWBA. Leonie Elbert of...Read More
The Halifax Hornets found some sting in their game again. Halifax, mired in a four-game losing slide, righted its ship at home Sunday in an 89-68 win over the Windsor Edge. Hornets moved to 2-4 and into a fourth place tie with the idle Moncton Mystics for fourth place. Each team has four points. Edge...Read More
The streaking Halifax Thunder rolled to its sixth straight win and remain undefeated this season in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. Halifax remained undefeated following a 99-35 cruise over Windsor Edge which fell to 0-5, losing this one at home in a matinee affair. Windsor travels to Halifax on Sunday to face the Hornets at...Read More
It’s Friday night and you need some trivia. Name the only Maritime Women’s Basketball Association team that has never lost a regular season game. If you picked Halifax Thunder, move to the head of the class. Thunder, which went 10-0 last season in the regular season, moved to 5-0 this year following a come-from-behind 75-68...Read More
Fredericton Freeze associate coach Anthony Ashe surveyed the scene of high fives and the celebration of victory in front of the home team bench and said ‘maybe we’re a fourth quarter team.’ Would appear so. For the second time in a week, a huge fourth quarter propelled the Freeze to a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association...Read More
