The Newcastle Eagles are the first team to 10 BBL Championship wins this season as they sent a message to their title rivals. The Eagles played host to the third-placed Glasgow Rocks and comprehensively won the battle of the league’s two northernmost teams, 97-71, to beat the Rocks for the second time in little over…
Nigerian National Team 80 Newcastle Eagles 70 The Newcastle Eagles ended their European adventure with another defeat condemning them to 4th place overall in the hugely successful Basketball Days Tournament in Zwolle, Holland. Once again the Eagles played without Joe Chapman and Fab Flournoy and then were dealt another blow when Paul Gause limped out…
Landstede Basketball Zwolle 106 Newcastle Eagles 80 The last thing the Eagles needed going in to this game was another injury but that’s what they had as Joe Chapman’s knock from 24 hours earlier meant although he was suited up it was only in the case of an emergency. He joined Fab Flournoy on the…
Newcastle Eagles 84 Nigerian National Team 77 With 5.5 seconds to go, the Eagles were heading out of the Basketball Days Tournament in Zwolle, Holland and then they came up with two huge plays to seal the seven-point victory they needed to send them in to the semi-final. The Eagles were ahead by five when…
BARSY ATYRAU (Kazakstan) 93 NEWCASTLE EAGLES 84 The Eagles first foray in to Europe ended in defeat at the Basketball Days Tournament in the Landstede Topsporthal, Zwolle, Holland at the hands of a very efficient Barsy Atyrau side from Kazakstan. The Eagles now need to beat the Nigerian national side tomorrow night by eight points…
Guildford Heat 73 (19,34,53) (McLemore 19, Ogedengbe 17, Lasker 11) Newcastle Eagles 83 (18,38,54) (Smith 24, Chapman 23, Defoe 12) Newcastle Eagles dug out a crucial win to avoid slipping to successive defeats in a scrappy but tense game which hung in the balance right until the last few minutes of the contest. With renewed…
Newcastle Eagles 86 (24,47,64) (Smith 37, Chapman 17, Thomson 15) Worcester Wolves 94 (21,38,51) (Freeman 33, Prezzie-Blue 23, Gordon 20) In the battle of the early pacesetters in the BBL Championship, it was the Worcester Wolves who came out on top inflicting the first defeat of the season in the League on the Newcastle Eagles…
Mersey Tigers 80 (15,31,53) (Aliu 19, Hesson 16, Davis/Bailey 13) Newcastle Eagles 94 (27,45,70) (Defoe 31, Chapman 18, Gause 14) Newcastle Eagle maintained their unbeaten start to the BBL Championship season with a 94-80 win at the current title holders Mersey Tigers. The two clubs battled it out for league honours last year but there…
Glasgow Rocks 85 (17,26,61) (Green 23, Wedemire 22, Huffor/Cranston 14) Newcastle Eagles 89 (21,47,64) (Chapman 27, Smith 15, Gause 13) Newcastle Eagles maintained their unbeaten start to the BBL Championship with an 89-85 win at Glasgow Rocks in an amazing match north of the border. Eagles looked to be coasting to their seventh consecutive win…
