{"id":851403,"date":"2026-08-09T04:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851403\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T04:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:28:11","slug":"winnipeg-sea-bears-advance-to-face-brampton-honey-badgers-in-cebl-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/851403\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Sea Bears advance to face Brampton Honey Badgers in CEBL Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Brampton Honey Badgers will face the Winnipeg Sea Bears in the Canadian Elite Basketball League championship series after both teams won their respective conference finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Three-time CEBL MVP Xavier Moon powered the Sea Bears past the top-seeded Vancouver Bandits in the Western Conference Final, 107-96, setting up a best-of-three final with the Honey Badgers, who defeated the Niagara River Lions 91-81 for the Eastern title.<\/p>\n

It will be the first time the league champion is decided by a series, moving away from the single-game format. <\/p>\n

Game 1 is set for Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET (CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca). The full live streaming schedule is available here<\/a>. As the lower seed, Brampton will host Game 1 before the series shifts to Winnipeg for Game 2 and Game 3, if necessary.<\/p>\n

Moon led the Sea Bears to their first-ever final after scoring a game-high 24 points while stepping up in the absence of star Teddy Allen, who was badly injured last weekend after allegedly being attacked by security staff at a downtown Winnipeg nightclub.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg native Simon Hildebrandt also scored 24 in the victory, while Isiah Osborne nailed the game-winning three-point shot to reach the target score of 106 at the Langley Events Centre.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Moon leads Sea Bears past Bandits, into CEBL Finals:\"\"<\/p>\n

Sea Bears book a spot in the CEBL Final defeating the Bandits<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Sea Bears, led by stars Xavier Moon and Simon Hildebrandt defeated the number one seeded Vancouver Bandits to secure a spot in the CEBL Finals against the Brampton Honey Badgers.<\/p>\n

Moon and Hildebrandt each hit four three-pointers to help Winnipeg win its second-ever playoff game.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old Moon returned to the CEBL this season after five years away.<\/p>\n

Shamar Givance led Vancouver with 21 points, with Tevin Brown and reigning MVP Mitch Creek each adding 19 points in the loss. Brown had a game-high five three-pointers.<\/p>\n

Brampton guard Tyrese Hunter also had a game-winning trey earlier in the day, his fifth of the game as the Honey Badgers took down the River Lions \u2014 who they battled for the No. 1 spot in the West throughout the season.<\/p>\n

Honey Badgers star Sean East II scored 22 points and fellow guard Trentyn Flowers added 20 in the win at Brampton’s CAA Centre. Hunter finished with 17.<\/p>\n

River Lions guard Khalil Ahmad had a game-high 30 points.<\/p>\n

Brampton could join Niagara and the Edmonton Stingers as the only teams to win two CEBL championships.<\/p>\n

WATCH | Honey Badgers beat River Lions for spot in championship series:\"\"<\/p>\n

Honey Badgers defeat River Lions for a spot in the CEBL Final<\/p>\n

The Brampton Honey Badgers led by Sean East Li and Trentyn Flowers defeated the Niagara River Lions 91-81 to win the eastern conference, and take their spot in the CEBL Final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":851404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-851403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}