As Newcastle Eagles begin to prepare to travel this weekend to Surrey for a tough road game on Saturday night, former Scorchers player Nick Schlitzer gave his thoughts on that game and also last weekend’s huge BBL trophy win over Dunfermline. Without the injured Mike Morsell and Sade Aded Hussein for the Dunfermline game it…
As expected, Newcastle Eagles cruised into the quarter-finals of the BBL Trophy on Friday night with a crushing 133 – 61 victory over Dunfermline Reign at the Eagles Community Arena. Dunfermline who are the reigning Scottish Basketball Champions are an amateur side playing in Scotland’s top division made up entirely of locally based players. Going…
To reflect on Newcastle’s last game of the decade, a huge road win at Glasgow Rocks and to preview the first game of the new decade there was really only one man to talk to. That man is the Eagles longest-serving player and a man that has been part of every single piece of silverware…
The Newcastle Eagles bounced back to winning ways last night with a thrilling away road victory at Glasgow Rocks. The Rocks went into the game top of The BBL and having won at Leicester on Friday night. The same night Newcastle had lost by 23 at home to Sheffield. The form book therefore appeared to favour…
The Newcastle Eagles head North this afternoon looking to bounce back from Friday night’s disappointing 99 – 76 home defeat at the hands of Sheffield Sharks. Their task is a tough one as standing in front of them are a red-hot Glasgow Rocks side. Whilst Newcastle were heading for a massive home defeat, The Rocks…
Going into the Christmas holidays there are often thoughts cast by players that haven’t been able to get home to be with their families and how it can be tough to be a pro-player at times. For one young man from the North-East that’s equally true and he’s not even a professional. Not yet he…
The Newcastle Eagles gave their loyal fans the Christmas present they wanted with a sparkling demolition of Manchester Giants at The Eagles Community Arena on Friday night. It was a champagne celebration of a performance as they powered home 131 – 63. True, Manchester were under-strength and short-handed but they still had to be dealt with…
The Eagles may have only had two games in the last five weeks but they were games where American forward Mike Morsell firmly announced his arrival on the BBL scene with two great performances. First off, he racked up 30 points albeit in a losing cause in the BBL Cup quarter final down in Worcester…
An incredible game of basketball down in Plymouth yesterday afternoon saw Newcastle Eagles take a tough road victory to open their BBL Championship campaign. In a proverbial game of two halves, Newcastle held off a late Raiders charge to take a deserved win. It was also Coach Ian MacLeod’s first official league game and win at…
