BBL Team of the Week – Week 30 It’s our penultimate starting five of the 2014-15 campaign and last of the regular season. Bryquis Perine (Bristol Flyers) The guard may have arrived in the West Country in the middle of the capaign, but he has played one of the major hands in catapulting Flyers to…
BBL Championship Leicester Riders 116 (28,60,87) (Hassan 29, Washington 17, Bernardini 14) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 84 (23,50,71) (Lasker 22, Fletcher 16, Matthew 15) Leicester Riders finished the BBL Championship season with a 116-84 defeat of league champions Esh Group Eagles Newcastle. The Riders posted their highest tally of the season in an exciting game…
BBL Championship Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 78 (23,43,55) (Thomson 23, Smith 20, Thomson 18) Cheshire Phoenix 101 (26,55,80) (Aliu 31, King 27, Watt 13) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle were handed an unexpected home defeat, as the visiting Cheshire Phoenix thrashed the newly crowned BBL Championship winners 101-78 at the Sport Central on Friday evening. The…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle v Cheshire Phoenix – Friday 17 April 2015 – Sport Central – 7:30pm Attention has already turned to the next challenge after Newcastle Eagles secured the BBL Championship title for the seventh time in 10 years. Wednesday’s 107-97 success against Manchester Giants ensured Fab Flournoy’s side retained their crown, and carry the number one…
A typically powerful offensive display carried Esh Group Eagles Newcastle to a win against Giants and to successive BBL titles. BBL Championship Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 107 (32,62,81) (Smith 27, Thomson S 23, Thomson A 22) Manchester Giants 97 (21,51,73) (Gill 25, Jones 22, Marsden 20) There were few signs of nerves at Sport Central…
EMOTIONAL FLOURNOY REACTS TO EAGLES’ TITLE SUCCESS An emotional Fab Flournoy has expressed his delight at landing another piece of silverware after his Esh Group Eagles Newcastle side retained their BBL Championship crown on Wednesday night. Speaking after the 107-97 success against Manchester Giants which sealed another title for the north-east powerhouse, the play-caller paid…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle v Manchester Giants – Wednesday 15 April 2015 – Sport Central – 7:30pm The task is simple for Newcastle Eagles going into Wednesday’s clash with Manchester Giants, one more win and they retain the BBL Championship title. The dominant force throughout the season, it had long seemed a question of when, not if,…
BBL Team of the Week – Week 29 It’s the penultimate line-up of the regular season and we still have space for a debutante and a trio of players who all rack up their fifth appearance of the campaign. Chavis Holmes (Worcester Wolves) The Wolves’ guard posted a classy display to lead his team to…
BBL Championship (OT) Newcastle Eagles 98 (31, 42, 60, 81) (Smith 29, Martin 21, Fletcher 19) Leeds Force 91 (25, 49, 58, 81) (McCann 22, Hall 19, Anebo 18) Newcastle Eagles demonstrated their championship quality once more with a battling 98-91 overtime triumph against Leeds Force on Friday to close within one win of the…
