The relief was palpable as the final buzzer sounded on Esh Group Eagles Newcastle’s 114 – 73 BBL Championship win at home against Leeds Force on Friday night, writes Jeff King. It brought to end a run of three successive home defeats and finally got The Eagles back on track. Whilst the win against the…
The Eagles were looking to the double over the Falcons. The Falcons are a mid table team just like the Eagles and it was sure to be a close game… The Eagles travelled without starting point guard Themba Yabantu due to illness… The game started with Eagles first on the board, the home team were looking…
The Eagles under 16s were back in league action this weekend, at home to Cheshire Wire. The game was rescheduled from earlier in the year, so this was the first time the two teams had met all season. The first quarter saw the Eagles set the tone for the game. A score for Kande got…
The BBL fixture list can rarely have been kinder to Newcastle Eagles. As the under-pressure hosts sought to arrest a three-game Sport Central losing streak, who better to face than a Leeds Force team with one win in 21 in the league this season? A side beaten by 88 points on their last visit to…
Esh Group Eagles Newcastle return to Northumbria University Sport Central tonight for a BBL Championship clash against fellow Esh Group sponsored nearest neighbours Leeds Force, writes Jeff King. Leeds have only won one game all season and whilst they have used no fewer than 23 players to turn their season around nothing has changed and…
Fabulous Flournoy is confident a flurry of international call-ups can only benefit Newcastle Eagles as the club negotiates an increasingly tough transitional campaign. And the veteran New Yorker is refusing to allow a run of three successive homecourt defeats dent his enthusiasm as a watershed season takes shape. Darius Defoe, Kai Williams and Drew Lasker…
Eagles were looking to avenge their home loss to Tameside earlier in the season… They arrived in good form against a much changed Tameside team who were playing in front of quite a partisan crowd…. The game started at a fast pace for the home team as they literally ran the boys in white off…
Newcastle U18s win on the road in Liverpool Very important game for the eagles as this was a rematch the first game of the season and the second game of the double header. Were slow of the mark while playing a bit of zone but didn’t affect the ball in the half court as Liverpool…
The next generation of North East basketball talent is in safe hands as the brand new Eagles Community Arena takes shape with the promise of creating a one-stop home for hoops fans of all ages and abilities. As our Eagles look to arrest an unfamiliar homecourt slump – following three successive Sport Central defeats –…
