It was an afternoon of experimentation and learning for coach Noelia Cacheiro and her Eagles women as they opened their preseason campaign with a tough loss to the visiting Leicester Riders. The Eagles play-caller had at her disposal a deep and diverse roster, featuring a blend of returning Eagles, new-additions and talented University athletes eager…
Jordan Johnson bookended a brilliant fourth quarter display with pivotal plays to bag a game high 26 points and lead the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles to a battling road win. Clutch baskets down the stretch from the former Caledonia Gladiator papered over a few early season cracks as the visitors struggled at the bonus stripe…
Double doubles from Tajh Green and Larry Austin Jr underpinned a determined display from Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles as top-flight hoops returned to the Vertu Motors Arena. Following a flawless pre-season all the talk on Tyneside was of the attacking intent and scoring ability at the heart of head coach Marc Steutel’s tantalising roster. But…
Perhaps the biggest surprise in this match-up between two of the more fancied British Basketball League’s teams was the final score. Somehow the visiting Gladiators managed to keep the gap to less than double figures in a highly competitive and entertaining pre-season game that had all the hallmarks and qualities of a truly meaningful encounter…
There will be bigger and tougher tests ahead for the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles as the season progresses for sure but Marc Steutel’s new-look roster were certainly impressive as they blew brave Derby aside in their opening pre-season game There have been many that have been impressed with the Eagles summer recruitment and it’s easy…
Newcastle’s mission impossible proved predictably unmanageable as the most talented women’s team in WBBL history put the hapless Eagles to the sword. London Lions were merciless in their dismantling of Noelia Cacheiro’s ragged roster on a bad day at the office for the vanquished visitors. But playoff quarter-final defeat to the wealthiest club in the…
As expected The Newcastle Eagles exited the End of Season Play-Offs in the first round at the hands of regular season Champions, London Lions. But Marc Steutel’s men didn’t go without a fight showing plenty of pride and commitment in the second leg. Indeed, in what was a very feisty affair with the referees throwing technical…
A blazing hot Ben Mockford couldn’t prevent champions London Lions putting on a BBL masterclass at a packed Vertu Motors Arena as playoff hoops returned to Tyneside. Newcastle’s in-form guard led his team with 31 points, shooting 73 per cent from the field, to deliver one of the best individual performances in Eagles history. But…
A defeat on the day but overall a victory as the Newcastle Eagles WBBL made it by the skin of their teeth into post-season play. They do so because the three teams chasing the final two play-off places all finished with identical 9 wins and 13 losses. Cardiff Met Archers, Durham Palatinates and The Eagles…
