Which Nova Scotia team will pack its bags and head to Fredericton next weekend for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship? We’ll find out tonight when the Battle of Halifax unfolds. Host Halifax Thunder welcome Halifax Hornets to Saint Mary’s University in time for a 7 p.m. start. Thunder finished third in...Read More
The PRO•LINE Legacy Cup has its first entrant. Regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour will be in Fredericton June 21-22, the first Maritime Women’s Basketball Association team to qualify for the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup at the Richard J. Currie Center. Lake City will enter the eventual Final Four as top seed. The...Read More
The run for Maritime Women’s Basketball Association supremacy opens tonight in Dartmouth, NS. That’s where the hometown Lake City 56ers, MWBA regular season champions, welcome Halifax Hornets in opening round play. With three teams in Nova Scotia, the winner of tonight’s game goes automatically to the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship in Fredericton, June 21-22. The...Read More
Quite a night. Which has meant Bailey Russell of the Fredericton Freeze is the Royale Player of the Week Award winner for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s fifth and final regular season week. Russell was instrumental in a big come-from-behind win over the hometown Port City Fog of Saint John last Saturday night. The second...Read More
There were so many remarkable performances in 2025 and followers of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association can expect many more storylines with playoffs on the line this week and into the weekend. Before counting all the team stories and post-season scenarios, let’s take a spin around the MWBA leaderboard and see who performed top five...Read More
And with the horn blaring at the end of the game, it also signalled the end of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s fourth regular season. ‘We had an amazing regular season with so many accomplished players showcasing the talent our league has to offer,’ said MWBA commissioner, Jen McKenzie of Dartmouth, NS. ‘There was parity,...Read More
The Miramichi Her-Icanes finished their second-ever Maritime Women’s Basketball Association season with an 8-2 record. That came following a 91-55 win over visiting Port City Fog of Saint John during a Sunday matinee in the Port City. The Her-Icanes finished tied with Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour with identical 8-2 marks. Lake City earned...Read More
The stage is set in Nova Scotia. Final playoff seedings are in effect and we know what the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association post-season push will look like in the post-season. Season IV for both teams wrapped up Sunday afternoon and the hometown Halifax Hornets earned an entertaining 56-51 decision over Lake City 56ers. Halifax finished...Read More
There were two Saturday night showdowns in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. One in Nova Scotia, one in New Brunswick. Let’s start in the Bluenose Province where the Halifax Thunder host the red-shot Miramichi Her-icanes in a game between solid entrants. Halifax appeared poised to run away and hide into the fourth quarter before Miramichi...Read More
There’s still work to be done. And the hardhats come on today for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association as the seven-team league enters the stretch run, the regular seaon ending Sunday. There are two games for Saturday, both 7 p.m. starts. Fredericton Freeze meets Port City Fog at the University of New Brunswick at Saint...Read More
