Manchester Giants’ season took a big step forward last weekend and coach Jeff Jones is keen to keep pushing on against Esh Group Eagles Newcastle on Friday. Giants doubled their tally of wins for the season when they closed last Sunday’s meeting with in-form Plymouth University Raiders on a 9-0 run to seal a win…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle are bidding to reach their third successive appearance in the Final, but will firstly have to see off Glasgow Rocks when they travel across the border for a quarter-final clash at the Emirates Arena on Sunday. The winner of that match-up will face either the in-form One Health Sharks Sheffield who…
Scott Martin gained his first starting five Team of The Week spot this week following a sterling performance at Surrey Sports Park this weekend. The Notre Dame grad has been working up to this for several weeks following numerous appearances in the top ten. Here is the full team for the week: Devin Ginty (Durham…
Surrey United 71 (Kucinskas 28, Tamayo 17, Callum 11) Newcastle Eagles 115 (Martin 25, Gause 24, Cooke/Defoe 18) Newcastle Eagles pulled within two points of the top of the BBL Championship after a comfortable road win at Surrey United. The Eagles were led by 25 points from Scott Martin, while Paul Gause weighed in with…
Newcastle Eagles 123 Huddersfield Heat 67 On Wednesday night the Esh Group Eagles Newcastle played host to Yorkshire’s Huddersfield Heat in a mid-season friendly game that benefitted both sides. Eagles had been without any form of competition for almost two weeks so needed a sharpener and Heat are an ambitious EBL Division 2 side with…
Surrey United v Esh Group Eagles Newcastle Sunday 10 November 2013 Surrey Sports Park (15:00) Fab Flournoy and his Esh Group Eagles Newcastle team want to step back onto the right path against Surrey United on Sunday after stumbling on a ‘bump in the road’. Eagles didn’t have a game last week but suffered their…
Two of the region’s top-flight sports teams – along with three of their star players – are being sponsored by law firm Sintons. Newcastle Falcons and Esh Group Eagles Newcastle are both supported this season by Sintons, in what is the continuation of a long-standing relationship with the Aviva Premiership rugby club, but a newly-formed…
We take a look at who has been hot in the BBL during the months of September and October. Scoring machines Eight players have made a blistering start to the new campaign in the scoring stakes, but one player is way out in front when it comes to points production. Brent Benson (Birmingham Knights) has…
BBL Team of the Week – Week 5 Four debutantes are joined by a player who takes his fourth slot in just five weeks. BJ Holmes (One Health Sharks Sheffield) It was perhaps written in the stars that BJ Holmes would have a big impact on his belated return to Sharks and so it proved….
