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…
Our main sponsor Esh Group has renewed its long-running sponsorship in a three-year deal as we prepare to tip-off for the seventh year in partnership. Chief executive Brian Manning and the Eagles’ managing director Paul Blake, along with a number of players, were on hand to celebrate the deal at the Vueling Quayside Seaside in Newcastle….
Following the U17 boys and girls Regional Development Tournament in Manchester on the 3 / 4 September, the initial rosters for the England U18 Men’s and Women’s National Squad and England U17’s Men’s and Women’s National Development Programme have been announced. 120 boys and 120 girls from each of the 10 Basketball England regions took…
This morning our 2016-17 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle were presented to the media at a launch on the Newcastle Quayside. Look out for some of the first press and TV interviews from our new Eagles over the next few days along with what Fab and some of our returning players have to say as we…
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…
After the exciting MKM Euro Invitational tournament our 2016-17 Esh Group Eagles Newcastle prepare for the tip-off of the British Basketball League season later this month with more warm-up games next week. On Monday night Team USA Select fly into the North East to take on the Eagles at Walbottle Campus. Tip off is at…
