Yesterday afternoon our Eagles made their annual visit to the Children’s wards at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle. This year the players had some as early presents to drop off from Santa with selection boxes and gifts for the patients and their parents, and free tickets to a BBL game for all the amazing staff….
It’s a November awards double for our WBBL squad as forward Georgia Ohrdorf is crowned Molten WBBL Player of the Month in the same week our women’s team head coach Chris Bunten landing the coaching accolade for November. Ohrdorf was at the centre of their 4-0 record and she topped the WBBL efficiency chart last month…
Congratulations to our Women’s British Basketball League Eagles team coach Chris Bunten on being awarded the title of Molten WBBL Coach of the Month for November. Our Eagles women have had a terrific four weeks and Bunten’s side have the best record during the period. Despite the international break they still managed to accumulate a…
Before CJ Gettys takes to the court as an Eagle for the first time in our away game tomorrow, Dan caught up with our new 7’0″ centre at the ECA straight after this morning’s training. Get tickets to see CJ in action in our upcoming home games:
Outstanding performances from our Eagles WBBL team in their double-header double-win weekend sees two of them land places in the league’s pick of the players. Our Lithuanian forward Mante Kvderaviciute (pictured) was so good across the two games that she actually posted a pair of performances, either of which alone would have been good enough…
The First Round draw for the 2020 BBL Trophy took place live on the league’s Facebook Page this evening. There were 16 teams in the draw made up from 12 clubs from the BBL and four invited non-BBL organisations. This season the eight teams who didn’t get a home game in the BBL Cup Quarter-Finals,…
One of our Eagles Community Foundation’s basketball clubs has received a haul of new equipment thanks to their local bobby on the beat. Cardinal Hornets is a volunteer-led basketball club run by our foundation out of Cardinal Hume Primary School in Gateshead. More than a hundred children between the ages of five and 16 are…
Following last night’s result in the in the BBL Cup South Group it was confirmed by the league this morning that our Eagles will face Worcester Wolves in the Quarter-Final played in one-leg next Friday 29 November 2019 with a 7:30pm tip-off. Tickets to sit with Eagles fans behind the team bench at the University…
In the final weekend of the BBL Cup Group Stage for our Eagles, a dominating performance from Sade Aded Hussein locked him in for a starting place in the Week 9 BBL All-Star Five. For the first time since the opening weekend of the season all five starters chosen by the league were above 30….
