It’s all to play for this afternoon at London’s Copper Box Arena when Esh Group Eagles Newcastle take their slender two-point lead in to the Lions Den for the second leg of the BBL Cup Semi-Final. That’s after a fascinating and tense first-leg finished 75 – 73 in favour of the Eagles. That game at…
It was advantage Newcastle Eagles in the first leg of the BBL Cup semi-finals after they managed to dispatch BBL leaders London Lions in nerve wracking fashion. Heading into the contest, the hosts had lost their last two on the road – with the Lions themselves handing player-coach Fab Flournoy’s men a damaging 96-78 loss…
It’s the biggest game and test of the season so far tonight for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle as Northumbria University Sport Central plays host to the first leg of The BBL Cup Semi-Final, writes Jeff King. Standing in the way of the Eagles progressing to the Cup Final are the BBL leaders, London Lions. What…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle may actually be in the unusual position of going in to this weekend’s BBL Cup Semi-Final against London Lions as underdogs. The tie is played out over two-legs with the first leg being in Newcastle at Sport Central on Friday night and the return in London on Sunday afternoon. The reason…
As our Eagles have progressed to the BBL Cup Semi-Finals this weekend and with a number of fixtures being moved around for others clubs to play their ties there has been a shuffle of a total of five games in the new year as follows. This release of updated fixtures also confirms that the first…
Our Eagles will play their first BBL Championship clash at the brand new Eagles Community Arena in January. Officials had pencilled in a Friday 21 December opening for the state-of-the-art facility in the city’s West End, with Manchester Giants due on Tyneside that night. But a series of enforced BBL fixture changes, which are due…
For the second night in a row Esh Group Eagles Newcastle faded at a crucial stage of the game allowing their opponents to pull away and open up a gap they couldn’t close. It meant more Capital punishment for an Eagles side that looked dispirited and dismayed as the final buzzer sent them home pointless…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle were blown away in the closing stages of last night’s BBL clash having their wings clipped by the rampant Lions of London. It meant a third league defeat of the season for Fab Flournoy’s men who were unable to stop the Lions from continuing to lead The BBL table. Fab Flournoy…
It’s another daunting weekend for Esh Group Eagles Newcastle as they travel to London for back-to-back games against Lions and Royals hoping to put on a Capital show and return to Tyneside with two crucial BBL Championship wins. Newcastle head south though full of confidence and in great heart following last weekend’s superb double-winning outing…
