Newcastle Eagles fly into tonight’s BBL Championship clash against Plymouth City Patriots looking for a fourth successive league win to keep their play-off challenge rolling. It won’t be easy against a Patriots side who are also in great form having won seven of their last ten games. That run has seen the Eagles’ visitors rise…
Is momentum the key? That will be the question on most people’s lips as for the second time in five days old rivals Newcastle Eagles and Glasgow Rocks face off in the BBL Championship at the Vertu Motors Arena. Last Sunday on the road in Glasgow, the Eagles made it a double-winning weekend with a…
Whisper it quietly but the Newcastle Eagles may just be on the point of finding an identity and turning their season around. Another solid all-round team performance with the starting five all getting into double figures and Justin Gordon adding his from the bench. Wes Person Jr recorded back-to-back twenty point games over the weekend…
It was a spectacular return for flying Eagles forward Justin Gordon on Friday night at the Vertu Motors Arena. His return to Newcastle colours after a successful campaign with the Tyneside franchise last campaign sparked a terrific winning performance from his teammates. True Surrey arrived in Newcastle bottom of The BBL and minus four senior…
It’s the British Basketball League’s bottom of the league side Surrey Scorchers that roll into the Vertu Motors Arena tonight for a Championship match-up. Back in early November last year Surrey came to Newcastle and the Eagles prevailed 90 – 81. More of the same will be the aim for an Eagles side that is…
It was another disappointing night for Newcastle Eagles down in Sheffield as for the fourth time this season the Yorkshire side defeated their more northerly rivals. However, the tale of the game was perhaps played out before the side’s even took to the court. Newcastle already without two senior players through injury in Louis Sayers…
The Newcastle Eagles return to the court for BBL Championship action down in Sheffield tonight to take on arch-nemesis Sharks at Ponds Forge. Sheffield have held the Indian sign over the Eagles so far this season winning all three clashes that have taken place. That includes two wins in the BBL Cup Group stages and…
Newcastle Eagles go into this afternoon’s BBL Championship game at London with a spring in their step and some confidence and belief restored after Friday night’s thrilling 113 – 111 overtime win at the Vertu Motors Arena over Manchester Giants. It was perhaps not a vintage Eagles performance but it was an explosive offensive display…
Whilst it’s not quite crisis time for the Newcastle Eagles BBL side there’s no denying a win over this weekend would be a very welcome boost to an organisation that is going through tough times at the moment. Perhaps tonight’s match-up at home in the Vertu Motors Arena against Manchester Giants is the best opportunity…
