The BBL Team of the Week has three players who will be competing in this weekend’s BBL Cup Final, two of which are Newcastle Eagles players. Paul Gause (Newcastle Eagles) After spending some time injured on the sidelines during December, livewire point guard Paul Gause is beginning to get into the groove during his first…
BBL Championship Prestige Homes MK Lions 91 (27,48,66) (Bolds 29, Crawford/Northern 14) Newcastle Eagles 96 (27,54,75) (Smith 20, Gause 18, Defoe/Thomson 16) The Newcastle Eagles picked up their 11th victory of the season in the BBL Championship as they defeated the Prestige Homes MK Lions 91-96 at the MK Basketball Centre on Sunday evening. A…
The Newcastle Eagles are the first team to 10 BBL Championship wins this season as they sent a message to their title rivals. The Eagles played host to the third-placed Glasgow Rocks and comprehensively won the battle of the league’s two northernmost teams, 97-71, to beat the Rocks for the second time in little over…
Nigerian National Team 80 Newcastle Eagles 70 The Newcastle Eagles ended their European adventure with another defeat condemning them to 4th place overall in the hugely successful Basketball Days Tournament in Zwolle, Holland. Once again the Eagles played without Joe Chapman and Fab Flournoy and then were dealt another blow when Paul Gause limped out…
Landstede Basketball Zwolle 106 Newcastle Eagles 80 The last thing the Eagles needed going in to this game was another injury but that’s what they had as Joe Chapman’s knock from 24 hours earlier meant although he was suited up it was only in the case of an emergency. He joined Fab Flournoy on the…
Newcastle Eagles 84 Nigerian National Team 77 With 5.5 seconds to go, the Eagles were heading out of the Basketball Days Tournament in Zwolle, Holland and then they came up with two huge plays to seal the seven-point victory they needed to send them in to the semi-final. The Eagles were ahead by five when…
BARSY ATYRAU (Kazakstan) 93 NEWCASTLE EAGLES 84 The Eagles first foray in to Europe ended in defeat at the Basketball Days Tournament in the Landstede Topsporthal, Zwolle, Holland at the hands of a very efficient Barsy Atyrau side from Kazakstan. The Eagles now need to beat the Nigerian national side tomorrow night by eight points…
Guildford Heat 73 (19,34,53) (McLemore 19, Ogedengbe 17, Lasker 11) Newcastle Eagles 83 (18,38,54) (Smith 24, Chapman 23, Defoe 12) Newcastle Eagles dug out a crucial win to avoid slipping to successive defeats in a scrappy but tense game which hung in the balance right until the last few minutes of the contest. With renewed…
Newcastle Eagles 86 (24,47,64) (Smith 37, Chapman 17, Thomson 15) Worcester Wolves 94 (21,38,51) (Freeman 33, Prezzie-Blue 23, Gordon 20) In the battle of the early pacesetters in the BBL Championship, it was the Worcester Wolves who came out on top inflicting the first defeat of the season in the League on the Newcastle Eagles…
