The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles will look back on Saturday night’s home defeat against Leicester Riders, scratch their heads and wonder quite how they came out of it on the back of a 20-point loss. At times Newcastle without doubt played some of their best defensive basketball of the season and until deep in the…
The Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles made it four wins in a week with a superb hard-fought road win in Plymouth on Friday night. Marc Steutel’s high-flying soaring Eagles swooping in for the kill in a tight encounter with an excellent last quarter finish. For thirty pulsating fiercely contested minutes through the first three quarters there’s…
A Tajh Green masterclass set the seal on another superb display as Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles made it three wins on the bounce. Zastal Zielona Gora needed victory on Tyneside to progress to the European North Basketball League (ENBL) post-season. And already-qualified Newcastle required the win to seal third spot in Group B and book…
As expected the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles match-up on the road at Oaklands College against the all-powerful, all-conquering London Lions proved to be a very tough task. After losing the first quarter by 31 – 11 Matt Newby’s side were always on the back foot and struggling to get into the game and cope with…
Jordan Johnson spearheaded a second half comeback as Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles fought back to beat Manchester Giants in their own backyard. The US Guard proved too much for the hosts as he ended the game top-scorer and leading on assists. The game didn’t look to be going the Eagles way as the Giants started…
Rickey McGill led Caledonia a merry dance as Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles stunned the Gladiators on Tyneside. The US Guard busted a full range of dazzling moves to lead all scorers with a thrilling 30 points at a packed Vertu Motors Arena. And McGill’s magic proved too much for Caledonia’s frustrated head coach as a…
Ultimately a basketball game is played over four quarters and forty minutes and not decided until the final buzzer. But somewhere within those times and periods there are decisive moments. For The Eagles that came early in this game. Cheshire this season have been almost everyone’s surprise package. Few would have tipped them to be…
Perhaps the worry going into this match for the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles was their lack of game time balanced against the fresh Essex Rebels who have played all of January. The Rebels run in the Women’s British Basketball League Trophy had taken them all the way to the final which they lost against the…
Darius Defoe surpassed 6,500 British Basketball League Championship points on his way to another mighty double-figure haul against his hometown team. But a typically gutsy display from the most decorated player in domestic hoops history wasn’t enough to down deadeye London Lions. The league leaders broke the game wide open during a devastating spell of…
