Edge earn first win

Kajorinne has big weekend for Windsor-based team in new women’s league

The Windsor Edge split the first two games of the first season of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association.

The Edge defeated the Port City Fog 71-68 on May 14 before losing 69-66 to the Fredericton Freeze May 15 at Leo Hayes High School in Fredericton, N.B.

Emily MacLeod had 22 points as the host Freeze erased a 10-point deficit to defeat the Edge.

Karissa Kajorinne had 33 points for Windsor while Tiffany Reynolds added 14.

Kajorinne, who played at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., in 2019, scored 36 points, including 24 in the first half, to lead Windsor to victory over the Saint John, N.B.,-based Fog . Reynolds contributed 21 points in the win while Jessica Millet added 12. Rachel Farwell scored 17 for the Fog.

After the first weekend, the two Halifax teams, the Thunder and Hornets, are undefeated with 2-0 records while the Edge and Freeze are 1-1. The Moncton Mystics and Fog are 0-2. Windsor also announced on May 15 that it had signed former Dalhousie Tigers MVP Anna von Maltzhan.

Port Williams native Haley McDonald paced the Thunder with 14 points in a 73-57 win over the Fog on May 15 while Abby Duinker, a Cambridge native, scored 10.

The next series of games will be played May 28-29 at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. The Edge play Moncton

at 3 p.m. on May 28 and Port City at 11 a.m. on May 29. Teams are playing a 12-game regular season.

The rosters include nine current and former Acadia Axewomen, including Ellen Hatt, Elizabeth Iseyemi, Jayda Veinot, Chanel Smith, Jasmine Parent, Erika Berry-Traikov and Emily MacLeod, McDonald and Duinker.