Great Britain will once again make Newcastle home as they face Serbia in the next stage of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 Qualifiers at the Vertu Motors Arena on Friday 11 November. The fixture announcement continues a consistent run of sold-out crowds in the national team’s previous outings in the North East. It will…
Stability is the key for Marc Steutel as Newcastle Eagles’ head coach prepares to consign an unsettling period of flux to the history books. Donovan Johnson represents the penultimate piece in a puzzle that’s proved tough to solve during the first few weeks of an unexpectedly challenging roster-wide reset. And after the US star touched…
At the fourth time of asking in the fledgling BBL season, Marc Steutel’s Newcastle Eagles took the first win of the new Coach’s tenure and advanced to the quarter-finals of The BBL Cup. Whether Steutel would have preferred a win in the league will be a question only he can answer but what is certain…
Nette Lewis has pledged to add leadership, toughness and positive energy to Newcastle Eagles after bagging 24 points and 13 rebounds on debut. The 23-year-old centre started yesterday’s WBBL clash at Sevenoaks Suns alongside in-form Katie Nolan. But despite the Newcastle duo dominating in the paint, serial contenders Sevenoaks closed out a 15-point victory at…
The winless Newcastle Eagles take a break from BBL Championship duties this afternoon and turn their attention to picking up a first win of the season in the BBL Cup. They have made the long journey to the South-West to take on Plymouth City Patriots this afternoon. Coach Marc Steutel will be desperate to get…
Newcastle Eagles WBBL head coach Noelia Cacheiro has made no secret that she has been scouring the basketball world looking for players to boost her under-strength but committed roster. So Cacheiro and the club are delighted to announce they’ve signed new recruit Antoinette Lewis. Not only that but the 6’1” centre, known as Nette, will…
Another heroic effort from in-form Javion Hamlet was not enough to deny London Lions a fourth league victory on the bounce. Newcastle Eagles’ new fan favourite dropped a game high 29 points before fouling out in the final 10 seconds of a fiery Friday night clash. And Hamlet will be a marked man at Plymouth…
Newcastle Eagles have added a further piece to their 2022-23 jigsaw with the signing of 6’7” forward Donovan Johnson. “I’m excited to get to work with the guys. I had a good talk with coach Steutel and he was optimistic about getting going”, said Johnson. “I played a season at Manchester Giants in 2020-21 so…
Newcastle Eagles go into tonight’s tough home game with BBL Championship favourites London Lions looking for their first win of the 2022-23 season. The Eagles lost both games last weekend although in truth they could have come out with two wins. Last Friday night in a sold-out Vertu Motors Arena they led after three quarters…
