She’s a game changer. She’s also the Most Valuable Player. MacKenzie Smith from the regular season champion Lake City 56ers has been named the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s MVP after a stellar season with the Dartmouth/Cole Harbour-based squad. She was also named a first team all-star. Smith, out of Shelburne, NS, will bring her skillset...Read More
Kiera Duffie is a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association veteran. After winning a playoff game to get them into this weekend’s PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship, Duffie said her Halifax Thunder was in a different position this year, after dominating with three straight undefeated regular seasons and back-to-back titles. Duffie indicated things were different in Thunder-land this...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is all about teamwork. But as the MWBA prepares for its marquee PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship this weekend in Fredericton, the league announced its first and second all-star teams for the 2025 season. The MWBA will announce its MVP Friday morning. Five players earned first team all-star honours and another...Read More
The Miramich Her-Icanes were an expansion team in 2024. The club certainly made noise last season, both on and off the court, producing the reigning league MVP and capturing the hearts of a rabid fan base along the way. Guess what? It’s still a feel good story on Miramichi, but there’s certainly a lot of...Read More
They broke the streak. Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour became the first Maritime Women’s Basketball Association team to rule the regular season outside the Halifax Thunder since the league’s inception in 2022. Lake City enters this weekend’s PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship in Fredericton as the No. 1 seed. The 56ers will play hometown Fredericton...Read More
And then there were four. The PRO•LINE Legacy Cup unfolds this weekend in Fredericton as the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association prepares to crown its Season IV champion. It could be a heck of a dramatic tournament. Why? Consider you have two teams who tied with identical 8-2 records, one team is a two-time reigning champion...Read More
And the field is set. The Fredericton Freeze has advanced to the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship, finalizing the final field of four, set to be held in Fredericton next weekend. All action will be at the beautiful Richard J. Currie Center on the campus of the University of New Brunswick. The road to the Final...Read More
There is one spot left. Who wants it? We find out tonight when the final divisional semifinal of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association playoffs unfolds at Fredericton High School when hometown Fredericton Freeze welcome Moncton Mystics to the New Brunswick capital. Game time is 7 p.m. At stake is a berth in the PRO•LINE Legacy...Read More
Opposite ends of the spectrum entering the game. That’s why you play. The heavily-favoured Miramichi Her-Icanes, who finished 8-2 this season, had their hands full Saturday night in front of a packed playoff house against Saint John’s Port City Fog which entered the contest after a 1-9 regular campaign. Didn’t matter. Port City closed to...Read More
It’s New Brunswick’s turn. After two Nova Scotia teams – Lake City 56ers and Halifax Thunder – advanced to the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s PROLINE Legacy Cup Final Quartet, New Brunswick’s four teams hit playoff mode this weekend. First up is Miramichi Her-Icanes hosting Port City Fog of Saint John on Saturday at 6 p.m....Read More
