The Newcastle Eagles women are off and running for the competitive season. A tough but excellent road win at Nottingham on Saturday night kept their SLB Betty Cordona Group stage qualification hopes alive. It was a game that Head Coach Chloe Gaynor’s side took control of early and led from first buzzer to last although…
The Newcastle Eagles women’s team and Head Coach Chloe Gaynor now know the standards they have to hit if they are to have a successful season in 2025/26. The Sheffield Hatters came into The Vertu Motors Arena and put a real marker down for the season ahead with a comprehensive victory. Prior to this opening…
Chloe Gaynor took her Newcastle Eagles Women’s Team north of the border to Playfair, East Kilbride on Sunday to take on the Caledonia Gladiators in their only scheduled pre-season outing. It was also first outing for The Gladiators in pre-season. The Eagles travelled with confidence and hope after Head Coach Chloe Gaynor announced a clean…
It was five and out for Head Coach Chloe Gaynor and her players down at Sheffield yesterday afternoon. The fifth time Newcastle Eagles had faced the Sheffield Hatters this season and unfortunately the fifth loss to an excellent Sheffield side. It meant a season ending loss for the Eagles in difficult and disappointing circumstances as…
The Newcastle Eagles survived an extremely tough encounter with a talented Essex Rebels side to eventually force their way into the Play-Off Semi stage after a great game of basketball. It sets up a game in Sheffield next Sunday against The Hatters for the right to go to the O2 on Sunday May 18th. A…
They say that it’s not how you start it’s how you finish. At Maiden Castle, Durham that proved to be true for Newcastle Eagles although to be fair they did start well before powering through the final quarter to complete a league double over their derby rivals. In doing so the Eagles ended the regular…
A magnificent night in the Vertu Motors Arena ended in triumph for the Newcastle Eagles. After a sensational top-quality 40 minutes of basketball Head Coach Chloe Gaynor’s side took a thrilling win that cemented their place as the third-best team in the standings and the country. The Eagles will now fly into next Saturday night’s…
After a slow start that saw Newcastle down by double-digits and losing the first quarter the Eagles bounced back in the remaining three quarters to take in the end a comfortable win on the road in Nottingham. It was a win that lifted them back into third place in the standings and confirmed that they…
A record-breaking afternoon and a game for the ages in the SLB Women’s Championship. No-one that was there is going to forget this contest in a hurry that’s for sure. Sheffield and Newcastle served up what, at least offensively, must have been one of the best games in top-flight women’s basketball. The aggregate points tally…
