It was another disappointing Friday night for all connected at Newcastle Eagles as the home side slipped to a third consecutive home loss in the BBL Championship. A disastrous first quarter being the key to the game. Cheshire came out all guns blazing from the opening tip-off and Newcastle’s virtually non-responsive defence allowed them to…
After their record breaking 99 – 72 victory last time on court, the Newcastle Eagles Women’s team return to WBBL action with a trip to Manchester Met Mystics this afternoon. The 99 points is the most a Newcastle side has ever recorded in their history and has increased the confidence in the camp that Head…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s crucial BBL Championship game against Cheshire Phoenix still looking for that magic formula that will kick-start a season almost a third over. The Phoenix not only hold down a play-off spot with 5 wins in their twelve games so far in their league campaign they also hold a win over…
Newcastle Eagles season is just not improving any time soon and Coach Marc Steutel needs to address the situation very quickly otherwise despite not even reaching Christmas it’s going to be a long campaign. Last night in Leicester they went crashing out of the BBL Cup at the hands of a rampant Riders side that…
Newcastle Eagles are on the road today as they travel to Leicester to take on The Riders at the Morningside Arena in a crucial BBL Cup Quarter-Final. After defeating Plymouth in the last round they were hardly rewarded with what looks, on paper, a very tough game indeed. Although perhaps it’s not the strongest Riders side…
Newcastle Eagles latest BBL Championship defeat at the Vertu Motors Arena was perhaps the most disappointing of the season so far in what has been a stop-start campaign full of issues for new Head Coach Marc Steutel. In Friday night’s 95–79 loss at the hands of the Plymouth City Patriots, a side they had already…
Newcastle Eagles Ben Mockford has over 50 caps for Great Britain. He is one of those players in the squad that both coaching staff and younger players look toward providing experienced knowledge and insight to the international game. Mockford has now settled into the Newcastle area and the Eagles set-up and will certainly be a…
It was a frustrating and disappointing night for all concerned at Newcastle Eagles on Friday night at the Vertu Motors Arena. They slipped to a 79 – 74 defeat at the hands of the BBL’s bottom side Surrey Scorchers in a game they had been expected to win. It was Surrey’s first win of the…
There were precious few fireworks going off last night at the Vertu Motors Arena as the Eagles of Newcastle took to the court against the Rebels of Essex. Instead both defences dominated the game taking the power out of the offensive kegs. What it meant was that we were treated to a hard-nosed war of…
