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One of the top players in the history of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association was rewarded during the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship that concludes Sunday in Fredericton. Elizabeth Beals-Iseyemi of the Halifax Thunder was named MVP of the MWBA, celebrating its fifth anniversary season. Beals-Iseyemi, who has spent the past two seasons playing professionally in...Read More

It’s championship game day. Yes, the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association will crown its fifth champion this afternoon when the Halifax Thunder and Fredericton Freeze clash for all PRO•LINE Legacy Cup marbles. Game time is 2 p.m., at the Richard J. Currie Center on the campus of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. If you’re...Read More

The Fredericton Freeze is going to a place its never been. Fredericton advanced to the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship. The Freeze will play Halifax Thunder in Sunday’s final, a 2 p.m., clash at the Richard J. Currie Center in Fredericton. It became reality for Fredericton after an 82-56 win over Moncton...Read More

Moving on. The Halifax Thunder is on its way to the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship. Halifax fell behind early to Nova Scotia capital rival Halifax Hornets in semifinal play Saturday, but found its mark late in the first quarter and roared on to an 84-56 win. Thunder now awaits the winner of Saturday’s second semifinal...Read More

Need a scouting report for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s PRO•LINE Legacy Cup championship? Ask Erin McAleenan. She has coached, will coach, still coaches and certainly knows a bevy of the talent that will assemble at the Richard J. Currie Centre Saturday and Sunday. McAleenan, the head coach of the reigning Atlantic University Sport women’s...Read More

The doors opened. Question was, would anyone outside of players, coaches and officials walk through? The scene was Moncton’s Harrison Trimble High School, late April of 2022. The Moncton Mystics and Fredericton Freeze were testing the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association waters with a pre-season game, the first foray into the fray that would eventually pave...Read More

These teams are certainly not strangers. They have played 12 regular season games against each other over the past five years, but have met only once in the playoffs. It was a memorable meeting. Back in the 2022, the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association was brand, spanking new. Halifax Thunder would roll through the league that...Read More

As the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association prepares to crown a champion, its commissioner reflected on an eventful 2026 season. ‘We have watched so much growth in the MWBA and celebrating our fifth year of competition this year has produced change and more stories of success,’ said commissioner Jen Lloyd of Dartmouth, NS. ‘We introduced a...Read More

There is one thing we know for sure about the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup Final Four. Two teams have hoisted the PRO•LINE Legacy Cup and celebrated as Maritime Women’s Basketball Association champions. Two other teams have not. In fact, those two other teams have not made it to a final, but that will all change this...Read More