For love of game. After finishing a four-year career with the University of Prince Edward Island Panthers, Karla Yepez figured her basketball playing career was over. Had it been over, it was quite a USPORTS ride for the 24-year-old from Ecuador. A national bronze medal with the Panthers, 78 games played, an Atlantic University Sport...Read More
From her first game to her last, Karissa Kajorinne had a special year. Just like the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association, in fact. Kajorinne, an Ontario product, has signed a professional deal after the MWBA wrapped its first season back in June. Playing with the Windsor Edge, Kajorinne paced the league in scoring. She scored 246...Read More
The celebration went into the night in Halifax. The preparation, meanwhile, begins in earnest this week for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. After the Halifax Hornets defeated rival Halifax Thunder, 87-84 in a tremendous display of basketball to win the first-ever Legacy Cup thoughts turned to next season. From all indications the six inaugural franchises...Read More
The Halifax Hornets pulled of a stunner. And with it, won the first-ever Maritime Women’s Basketball Association championship, taking home the Legacy Cup with a dramatic 87-84 victory over city rival Halifax Thunder on Sunday in front of a huge throng at Saint Mary’s University. The Hornets’ win ended Thunder’s bid to cap a perfect...Read More
It was a grind. For both teams. In the end, the edge went to Nova Scotia’s Windsor Edge, downing Saint John’s Port City Fog, 83-74 in Maritime Women’s Basketball Association quarter-final play Friday. Windsor, entering play as the Nova Scotia No. 3 seed, will now face regular season champion Halifax Thunder in semifinal play Saturday....Read More
It was close early, but the Halifax Hornets and their depth would prevail, sending the second place team during the regular season on to Saturday’s semifinal. Halifax stopped the Moncton Mystics, 85-67 on Friday in the first-ever playoff game for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. All six teams are at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax...Read More
The hashtag tells everyone #nowsthetime. Sure is the time. The much-anticipated pursuit of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s Legacy Cup begins in earnest Friday in Halifax at Saint Mary’s University. Two quarter-final matchups unfold for the right to play in Saturday’s semifinals. The opening game at 6 p.m. pits the Halifax Hornets against Moncton Mystics...Read More
The road to a dominating offensive season started right away. It was May 14, in fact, during opening day Maritime Women’s Basketball Association play in Fredericton. Karissa Kajorinne erupted for 36 points to lead her Windsor Edge to a dramatic, 71-68 win over Saint John’s Port City Fog in that contest. For Kajorinne, the offence...Read More
The Fredericton Freeze needed a victory to assure itself a first-round playoff bye. Grace Simpson made sure that happened. Simpson scored 17 points – including nine in the decisive fourth quarter – to help the Freeze down the Moncton Mystics, 75-65 in the last regular season game in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association on June...Read More
Next step, playoffs. After a remarkable 27-month build up and the first-ever Maritime Women’s Basketball Association regular season behind us, it’s time to pursue the Legacy Cup. It all gets under way Friday at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax with all six teams landing in the Nova Scotia capital. Quarter-final Friday opens at 6 p.m....Read More
