BBL Cup, Semi-Final Second Leg Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 84 (Gause 20, Cooke 18, Martin 17) One Health Sharks Sheffield 57 (Holmes 14, Simmons 12, Jemison 11) Eagles win 163-139 on aggregate. Esh Group Eagles Newcastle stormed into their third consecutive BBL Cup Final after they overpowered One Health Sharks Sheffield 84-57 (163-139 on aggregate),…
“The winner will be decided by the tempo of the game.” That’s the view of retired BBL guard Andrew Bridge, looking ahead to the second leg of the BBL Cup semi-final between the Esh Group Eagles Newcastle and One Health Sharks Sheffield. “If it’s a high-tempo game then Newcastle will win, but if it’s a…
BBL Cup, Semi-Final First Leg One Health Sharks Sheffield 82 (Horstmann 18, Simmons 18, Lewis 10) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 79 (Smith 24, Defoe 18, Cooke 16) This BBL Cup semi-final remains finely poised after the first leg as One Health Sharks Sheffield edged Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 82-79, to retain their unbeaten home record…
BBL Cup Glasgow Rocks 69 (Northern 19, Marcotullio 13, Harrison 10) Esh Group Eagles Newcastle 81 (Cooke 27, Gause 12, Martin 12) Malik Cooke (pictured) poured in a game-high 27 points as Esh Group Eagles Newcastle outpowered Glasgow Rocks 81-69 in the British Basketball League (BBL) Cup Quarter Finals. It was a tough start of…
BBL Cup Quarter-Final Newcastle Eagles 107 (29, 62, 84) (Huffman 25, Chapman 23, Maddox 19) Worcester Wolves 85 (19, 38, 48) (Owumi 24, Ocitti 21, Kazlauskas 16) Defending BBL Cup champions Newcastle Eagles reached the semi-finals of this year’s competition with a dominant 107-85 victory over Worcester Wolves in a game that saw some excellent…
The line up for the BBL Cup semi-finals was completed over the weekend, with some contrasting last eight ties. The closest game came at Sport Central where Newcastle Eagles continued their winning start to the season with a 78-75 victory against old rivals Glasgow Rocks. They did it the hard way, though, against a Rocks…
