Esh Group Eagles Newcastle v Manchester Giants Details: Friday 30 September, Sport Central, 7:30pm – BBL Championship Summary: Contrasting starts to the season at the weekend as the Eagles won by 14 at Cheshire, while the Giants fell to an opening 34-point defeat at home. Fab Flournoy’s side have won all 13 meetings between the two…
All-Star Five – Week 1 It’s our first line-up of the brand new 2016-17 BBL season and opening weekend saw a number of rookies announce their arrival in style. Jack Isenbarger (Leeds Force) It was quite a debut for the Force guard as he posted the best performance of the entire weekend. His his 28…
BBL Championship Cheshire Phoenix 85 (18,35,59) (Brown 27, Anderson 21, Wilcher 12) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 99 (20,42,72) (Martin 28, Defoe 16, Parks 15) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle pulled away from Cheshire Phoenix to record an 85-99 road victory, on Sunday evening. Scott Martin led the way with a 28-point haul to help his team…
The last competitive game your Esh Group Eagles Newcastle played in the 2015/16 season was at the same venue that the 2016/17 season will start. That night although we took the win on the night, the damage had been done in the home leg and we crashed out of the Play-Offs at the first hurdle….
It’s the end of an era for the Esh Group Eagles and the British Basketball League as “Prince” Charles Smith announces his retirement from playing, calling time on his glittering time in British basketball as a player. In a phenomenally successful career that spanned 14 years in The BBL and 3 separate periods at The Eagles, Charles…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 125 105 Team USA Select The Esh Group Eagles Newcastle continued their pre-season warm-up games with a great performance against Sean Kilmartin’s Team USA Select at Walbottle Campus on Monday night The touring Americans sent a much stronger side than in recent years and they were rewarded with a closer score…
An inspiration and a legend, Fab Flournoy would like nothing more than to return to the Barclaycard Arena and lift yet more silverware at what promises to be another exciting and spectacular day at the 2017 Basketball Cup Finals. It’s a venue and city which still holds special significance for someone whose first chapter on…
Loyal and consistent are two words that could have been invented for the third confirmed Esh Group Eagles Newcastle signing for the 2016-17 campaign – namely last season’s Supporters Team Player of the Year, Scott Martin. The massive fans’ favourite is back for his fourth season on Tyneside and is already looking forward to being…
Newcastle Eagles have received a boost from Vertu Honda, which will continue its support of the team into the new season of the British Basketball League. Vertu Honda, which is part of Vertu Motors plc, has helped keep the team on the move with a number of brand new Honda Civic cars. Head coach Fab…
