Women’s Basketball

Blazers point-guard Carrera Lamoureux is the second CMU basketball player to declare that she will make the jump from the Manitoba Colleges Athletic Conference to the CIS for the 2012-13 season. In two seasons with the Blazers the 5’7 guard has won CMU Female Rookie of Year honors, team Most Valuable Players honors and back-to-back [...]

The CMU women’s basketball team fell to fourth-place in the MCAC standings this weekend after they fell on home court to the College Wesmen and the Providence Freemen took back-to-back wins against the Assiniboine Cougars to improve their record to 5-5. In a game that was featured by the MCAC as The Match of the [...]

Kathleen McCullough posted her first career double-double as the Blazers grabbed a massive home win over the Red River Rebels in overtime, 69-66 on Saturday afternoon. The second-year forward followed up an impressive 15 rebound performance on Friday night with 16 points and 10 rebounds, including 3-for-9 shooting from beyond the 3-point line. The home [...]

The second-place Red River Rebels held on to defeat CMU, despite a courageous comeback by the Blazers in front of a vocal home crowd. The home team displayed plent of energy in the first-quarter, out-rebounding and out-playing the Rebels on way to a 20-18 lead. Nina Schroeder scored 8 of her season-high 15 points in [...]

The Blazers jumped into 2012 last weekend at the NIAC-MCAC Crossover Tournament in Bemidji with mixed results. The CMU men suffered a narrow loss in their opener against the Trinity Lions and fought back with wins over Turtle Mountain and Assiniboine to win the consolation-side of the bracket. For the CMU women, the tournament spelled [...]

Endurance and balanced-scoring helped the Red River Rebels to their second-consecutive win over CMU on Saturday afternoon in MCAC women’s basketball action. After falling to the Rebels on Friday night by a score of 85-49, the Blazers emerged with a good team effort in Saturday’s first half, finding themselves within a basket of their Winnipeg [...]

After suffering an overtime loss on Wednesday night at Providence, the Blazer women bounced-back to win at home on Friday night 61-47 and pull their conference record back to 3-3. Current MCAC Female Athlete of the Week, Carrera Lamoureux was held to just 7 points by the Freemen on Wednesday night, but on this occasion [...]

After picking up their first conference win in Brandon on Friday night, the Blazers returned home on Saturday afternoon and evened their conference record with a 72-24 win over Assiniboine Community College, moving to 2-2. The story of the weekend was the CMU defense. With the score 36-18 in the Blazers favour at halftime, the [...]

The CMU women’s basketball team faced yet another daunting preseason challenge on Thursday night when they tipped-off with the Brandon University Bobcats of Canada-West of the CIS. The Blazers began their preseason on September 29th at King’s University College in Edmonton, where they played three members of the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Conference at the Dr. [...]

Members of the 2011 CMU women’s and men’s basketball teams boarded a charter bound for Edmonton this morning where the Blazers will take part in the 2011 King’s University College Tournament. The CMU women tip-off Thursday night when they play the host Eagles at 6 pm. The Blazer men will also face the hosts in [...]