The Eagles were present at the 2008-9 Annual Team Launch at the NewcastleGateshead Hilton hotel yesterday. Press and television were joined by a host of team sponsors and guests to greet the new team and hear Coach Flournoy’s thoughts on the new season’s campaign. The launch was also the first opportunity to take shots of…
The fixtures for the 2008/09 BBL Championship season have been announced, along with the draw for the BBL Cup and the BBL Trophy groups. The new campaign opens with a bang as the reigning league champions, the Newcastle Eagles, host the BBL Championship Playoff and Trophy double winners, the Guildford Heat, at the MetroRadio Arena…
BBL champions Newcastle Eagles had to go to overtime for the fourth game in a row before they sealed their 21st straight home win and finally saw off the challenge of the Sheffield Sharks in the last game of the regular season, writes JEFF KING. It gives Newcastle a 29-4 record in the league and…
League champions Newcastle Eagles will look to wrap up their BBL Championship campaign as they host Sheffield Sharks on Sunday. Sharks go into the game after a good weekend which saw them extend their winning run to six games, their best form of the season, with a 78-73 victory against Kularoos Plymouth Raiders followed by…
The Eagles win at Guildford in an all time gripping game in which the away team were down 18 points (88 – 70) at the start of the fourth quarter. The game was tied at 96 – 96 in the dying seconds of the fourth quarter to take it into overtime. Eagles came through in…
Everton Tigers 90 (27,49,62) (Aliu 27, Midgley 20, Haslam 19) Newcastle Eagles 93 (21,45,58) (Stewart 27, Babalola 19, Dafoe 17) (After Overtime 86-86 at the end of regulation) Newcastle Eagles completed the first part of their bid to win the BBL Championship this weekend with a nail biting 93-90 overtime success over the Everton Tigers….
Newcastle Eagles moved another step closer to securing the BBL Championship League title after an 82-68 victory over the Marshall MK Lions at the MetroRadio Arena on Friday evening. It was the Lions who started the stronger and took an early 14-20 lead midway through the opening period, but the Eagles came back into the…
Guildford Heat 86 Newcastle Eagles 79 NEWCASTLE Eagles’ fabulous 12-game winning streak in the league came to an end in Guildford yesterday. Current champions Heat kept their hopes of retaining their title alive with a pulsating win in a game they couldn’t afford to lose, writes JEFF KING. It’s now three games and three losses…
NEWCASTLE Eagles took a giant step towards landing the BBL league championship after ripping Plymouth Raiders to shreds in a sensational 94- 78 win last night. It was a monumental performance by Fab Flournoy and his team as they humiliated the Raiders, not only delivering a killer blow to their title dreams but hammering down…
