One of the faces of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is leaving the competitive arena. Kaylee Kilpatrick, a former MWBA MVP and dominating force with Saint John’s Port City Fog, will leave the country in September, bound for a new adventure in life and her career. A former University of New Hampshire Wildcats’ star and...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is eyeing its 2025 schedule. The MWBA finished its third season of competition in June, capping a remarkable campaign of parity throughout the seven team league, ending when the Halifax Thunder won its second straight Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup title in the Nova Scotia capital. There is hope of expansion...Read More
The dust settled, the curtain came down. But the act is not over for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association when it comes to planning. Year III may be in the books, but that means only one thing…Year IV beckons. A second consecutive Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup championship was awarded to Halifax Thunder on June 23...Read More
Undefeated. Again. Halifax Thunder has not lost a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association game of any type in two seasons. The remarkable march continued Sunday in front of 786 fans at Dalhousie University. Thunder started fast and kept the pedal to the floor, earning a 90-57 victory over Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour/Preston. Halifax earned...Read More
It’s the Halifax Thunder and Lake City 56ers. For all the marbles. The curtain will come down Sunday in the third season of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association when the Halifax Thunder tangles with Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour in the championship outing. Game time for the Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup is 2:30 p.m....Read More
The votes are in. And a member of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s newest team has been named the league’s Most Valuable Player. Lauren Rainford of the expansion Miramichi Hericanes was named MVP following a vote by league teams. Teams were not able to vote for a player from their own team. Rainford led all...Read More
And then there were four. Four teams remain in pursuit of the Pro*Line Summit Legacy Cup championship this weekend as the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association prepares to crown a champion. Who will it be? Undefeated and reigning champion Halifax Thunder? Second place Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour? How about the Fredericton Freeze, winners of...Read More
So, the word buzzing around the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association has been parity. Absolutely right. The MWBA had yet another white-knuckle post-season elimination game Thursday night to decide who the fourth and final team was going to be to advance to this weekend’s Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup championship. That final team is the Lake City...Read More
It’s a cross-bridge clash tonight. And the winner will fill the final spot in this weekend’s Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup championship, joining three other teams who qualified earlier in the week. What a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association battle this is going to be. Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour will welcome Halifax Hornets to the...Read More
Three tickets have been punched. Only one dance card remains. Regular season champion Halifax Thunder, Fredericton Freeze and Saint John’s Port City Fog has all earned a spot in this weekend’s Pro*Line Stadium Legacy Cup championship in the Nova Scotia capital. The Final Quartet will be held at Dalhousie University. Thunder, 10-0 during the regular...Read More
