Newcastle Eagles v Guildford Heat BBL Play-Off Quarter Final 1st leg, Friday 27 April 2012, Sport Central (19:30) Newcastle Eagles will look to move a step closer to a clean sweep of BBL Trophies when they host Guildford Heat in the play-off quarter-final first leg on Friday night The Eagles have already collected the regular…
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…
BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 85 (25,42,63) (Thomson 22, Defoe 13, Gause 13) Guildford Heat 64 (12,28,40) (Martin 14, Joseph 13, McLemore 13) The Newcastle Eagles stated their BBL Championship intentions with an 85-64 defeat of the Guildford Heat in the league’s curtain-raiser in the North East. Andrew Thomson led the way with 22 points, while…
BBL Championship Play Offs, Quarter-Finals (Second Leg) Guildford Heat 83 (24,48,64), (McLemore 18, Hegamin 13, Joseph 12) Newcastle Eagles 88 (17,40,59), (Jackson 24, Lasker 24, Smith 12, Defoe 12) (Eagles win tie 192-180) Newcastle Eagles had to really dig deep to emerge victorious from this quarter-final second leg as they made it into the BBL…
The Newcastle Eagles came through a frantic encounter with the Guildford Heat to take a 104-97 advantage in their BBL Championship Playoff quarter-final first leg. The Eagles, who have won the Playoffs in four of the last six seasons, have not lost to the Heat in four games this season. Newcastle were led by Reggie…
As his side prepare to face Newcastle Eagles twice over the weekend, Guildford Heat coach Creon Raftopoulos is happy with his first season in charge of the Surrey club. “When I was appointed head coach one of main goals was to make the playoffs which we have achieved so we can now go up against…
Newcastle Eagles player-coach Fabulous Flournoy has praise for his players ahead of their key clash against Mersey Tigers on Wednesday: “We travelled 2,500 miles in a seven day period, playing four tough road games against extremely competitive teams with the added disadvantage of having lost Trey [Moore] and then having to integrate Drew [Lasker] on…
Newcastle Eagles needed all their championship winning experience to escape from a tough looking away match at Guildford Heat with a win. As he has done on so many occasions it was Charles Smith (pictured) who hit the biggest shot of the game with a three in the final 15 seconds that put a halt…
Report by the Benfield School Sports Enterprise Challenge Media Team. The Eagles played without their coach Fab Flournoy. The first half was close but then the Eagles picked up the pace and won. The first quarter was quite tight with only a few points separating the teams, with the score ending at 18-23 to Guildford…
