A typically tenacious second half fightback couldn’t prevent Newcastle Eagles leaking another league loss on the road at Bristol Flyers. Not for the first time this season Marc Steutel’s men gave themselves a mountain to climb as the hosts raced into a 13-point first half lead. And Newcastle trailed by as many as 21 as…
Newcastle Eagles’ pursuit of an additional point guard brings talented-Texan prospect Trey Pulliam to Tyneside. Pulliam will join his new team-mates on the road this weekend as they await the green-light for him to hit the ground running in an Eagles jersey. Club officials are working behind the scenes to secure the clearance and licences…
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Deadly De’Sean Allen-Eikens fired Newcastle Eagles into the quarter-finals of the European North Basketball League with a game to spare as the American’s dazzling return to form sent the Vertu Motors faithful into a frenzy. The all-action rookie missed Sunday’s disappointing defeat at Surrey as he nursed a niggling wrist strain. But Allen-Eikens revealed he…
The Jekyll and Hyde Newcastle Eagles crashed to a disappointing defeat down in Guildford, Surrey on Sunday afternoon to move to 5 wins 4 losses in the SLB Championship. After the great work they did at home to defeat high-flying Leicester this was not the follow-up they were hoping for. It seems at times that…
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There’s a temptation to roll out the cliches after a result and performance where Newcastle lost at home by 36 points. After 4 successive wins ‘the honeymoon period’s over’, ‘you learn more about your team in defeat than in victory’ being two. Truth is the Eagles were overpowered by a very good Sheffield side that…
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Fired-up Newcastle Eagles snapped a five-game winless streak to throw this year’s Championship title race wide open. A 93-90 victory against third-placed Leicester Riders reignited the home side’s top four challenge. And there was double joy for Marc Steutel’s men after second-placed Sheffield Sharks slipped up on the road at Manchester. Sensational Seneca Knight led…
Due to competition progression for Super League Basketball (SLB) teams, including our Eagles making it to the SLB Trophy Final, a number of fixtures have been changed or postponed this month, January 2025. Firstly next weekend, instead of travelling to Sheffield Sharks on Sunday 12 January, it will be a visit to Bristol Flyers on…
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Newcastle Eagles felt the full force of Sheffield Sharks’ two-man game as the visitors’ in-form backcourt blitzed the men in black. Prentiss Nixon and Rodney Chatman III combined for 51 points as the relentless guards kept digging deep to keep Atiba Lyons’ men in front. And despite winning the battle of the boards and seeing…
AGGREGATE 174 – 178 Newcastle Eagles are going to the Utilita Arena Birmingham to play Bristol Flyers in the Super League Basketball Trophy Final on Sunday 26th January 2025. That’s the simple easy fact to quote. How they got there is a much harder fact to break down after a wild night in Leicester on…
