Category: Basketball

Fields, Lolar named ECBL co-players of the week

Week 2 of play in the East Coast Basketball League featured several big individual performances, but two stood alone: Tamyrik Fields and Zeriq Lolar. They are the ECBL co-players of the week. Fields scored 41 points on 18-of-28 shooting from the field to lead the Augusta Eagles in their season opener over the Upstate Redhawks.…

February 26, 2020
ECBL opening weekend recap

Season six in the East Coast Basketball League began this weekend with eight of the 19 teams in action. Two of those teams are new to the ECBL in 2020. Five-time defending champion PrimeTime Players opened their campaign on Saturday in Orangeburg, South Carolina facing one of those new teams – Carolina Showtime. After a…

February 16, 2020
Fayetteville Panthers pleased to call Hope Mills home

Second year team Fayetteville Panthers are on the move! The team is now calling the Town of Hope Mills Recreation Center its home for the 2020 East Coast Basketball League season. The Panthers made their ECBL debut in 2019, posting a 6-7 regular season record before being eliminated in the opening round of the playoffs. Leading the Panthers attack…

January 15, 2020
Fall season all-MSBA awards handed out

The Mid-South Basketball Association 2019 Fall regular season concluded November 9 and playoff games are scheduled. St. Louis Trotters (6-1) are the top seed. They and the two-seed Memphis Blues (5-2) have a first round bye into the semifinals. MSBA Awards All-MSBA First Team Tevin Andrews, Kentucky Flash Jeremiah Boyd, Henderson Stars Rontreal Braxton, Henderson Hornets…

November 11, 2019
Arundell leads new Toronto Lady Elite 1s

Toronto Lady Elite 1’s are back. After a seven-year hiatus the team has been reformed to compete in the Women’s Basketball Development Association. On June 16 the team hosted their first game in Canada defeating the Lake Erie Strive in exhibition play 69-56. Led by head coach Allana Arundell and her assistant Nambogga Sewali, the…

June 21, 2019
MSBA names all-league awards

Season one of the Mid-South Basketball Association is nearly complete with the regular season wrapping up June 1. The league went through some “growing pains” as many first-year operations go, but MSBA President Charles Hickman was pleased with the start. “When we formed our goal was to give teams an option for competitive basketball with…

June 7, 2019