One heck of a game. Not surprising considering the Lake City 56ers and Fredericton Freeze locked horns again in another PRO•LINE Legacy Cup semifinal showdown in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. In the end, the regular season champion 56ers used a dominant 23-9 third quarter outburst and would post a 75-69 win over the Freeze,...Read More
The first semifinal for the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup Maritime Women’s Basketball Association championships opens Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Hometown and fourth seed Fredericton Freeze host regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour at the Richard J. Currie Center. Lake City defeated by five points back on May 25 in Cole Harbour. The second...Read More
Kevin Daley went shopping this week. Purchased several alarm clocks. Set them for 5 p.m. Saturday. That’s when the hometown Fredericton Freeze hit the court, facing the regular season champion Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour in the lid-lifter of the four team PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship. The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s marquee event is...Read More
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
