Marc Stuetel has doubled down on his determination to prepare Great Britain basketball for the challenges ahead following another dispiriting defeat on the international stage. The beaten but unbowed Newcastle Eagles play-caller helms tomorrow night’s World Cup clash against European heavyweights Serbia uncertain of what the future holds. But GB’s acting head coach is continuing…
The Newcastle Eagles WBBL side continued their recent excellent form and significant improvement this weekend with a fabulous road trip that brought them two superb wins, After Saturday’s nail-biting 68 – 67 win over Essex Rebels that saw them through to the WBBL Trophy Semi-Final they stopped off in Nottingham on the way home and…
Lightning struck twice for luckless Newcastle as another narrow loss on the road capped a miserable weekend for Marc Steutel’s men. The crestfallen Eagles returned to Tyneside with nothing to show from two winnable games at Bristol and Plymouth. But Steutel will look back on a fruitless 825-mile round trip with a mixture of frustration…
Ice queen Chloe Gaynor stayed cool under pressure to fire Newcastle into the semi-finals of this season’s WBBL Trophy. The Eagles centre showed nerves of steel as she converted a crucial mid-range jumper four seconds from time. And hosts Essex Rebels were left stunned after fighting back from a 20-point deficit only to lose a…
Another game where The Eagles competed well for almost the whole forty minutes and were right there and could have taken a win only to fail to close out the victory down the stretch. It means they travel to Plymouth City Patriots for a must-win game against one of the teams they are targeting to…
Newcastle Eagles travelled to the Ellesmere Port Sporting Village yesterday to take on a tough Cheshire Phoenix side that were in the top four of the BBL table. Phoenix had only lost twice on the home court this season so it was always going to be a tough ask for Head Coach Marc Steutel’s men….
Noelia Cacheiro heaped praise on her energetic bench after a strong start and explosive finish bookended Newcastle’s second win on the bounce. The in-form Eagles head into a two-week break sitting pretty in sixth place in the WBBL. And the women in black proved their playoff pedigree after overcoming a nervy period either side of…
It would be easy to say this was a game all about the final quarter and the magnificent performance the Newcastle Eagles produced in the last ten minutes of a pulsating basketball game. But, the three quarters that went before had a lot to do with the platform set for that final huge effort from…
Was this the game and moment when the Eagles season turned? Time and future games will answer that question. But what is in no doubt is that Newcastle sent a resounding message to the rest of the WBBL that they could be a force to be reckoned with. Coming into the game Hatters had a…
