As the final weekend of regular season looms large, both our Eagles teams are in the running for 2023 Play-Offs qualification. The top eight teams in both league’s will their journey to the coveted finals at The O2 in London on Sunday 14 May. However, it’s not just a matter of our BBL and WBBL…
The Newcastle Eagles WBBL side will take to their home court in the Vertu Motors Arena in a huge derby day clash against Durham Palatinates this afternoon. They will do so on the back of an encouraging although losing performance against a very strong Leicester Riders side on the road. It was always going to…
With seven league games of the season to go Newcastle Eagles WBBL team are still in the play-off positions sitting seventh in the table. This weekend they have a tough double-header to contend with to try and keep that play-off bid alive. First up it’s on the road at Leicester Riders, a side currently sitting…
Maggie Justinak insists perennial underdogs Newcastle Eagles are primed to cause another big upset this weekend with a WBBL Trophy final place on the line. And the in-form playmaker revealed she’s relishing life as an ‘emergency’ point guard after making the key position her own. Newcastle host league leaders Leicester in the Trophy final fours…
This afternoon the league confirmed that our Eagles will play Leicester Riders in the 2023 Betty Cadona WBBL Trophy Semi-Final on Saturday 18 March. A nail-biting one point victory against Essex Rebels in the Quarter-Final nine days ago saw our women take their place in the penultimate stage of this year’s prestigious silverware competition. Riders…
It was labelled ‘The Big One’ as Newcastle attempted to smash the all-time attendance award for a WBBL Championship game. It was a home game at the Vertu Motors Arena and once again the Eagles as a club excelled. Off the court a brilliant crowd of 1,303 did indeed break Eagles own record and became…
Newcastle Eagles go into The Big One tonight against a strong Leicester Riders on a three-match winning run. The sold-out top-flight women’s basketball tip-off is set to see the club break the league attendance record once again this evening after 1,122 turned out to the first Big One just under a year ago. Our Eagles’…
Newcastle Eagles WBBL can go even bigger and better with a new record-breaking bid after it was revealed The Big One is back for 2023! That’s the verdict of head coach Noelia Cacheiro as women’s basketball prepares to take centre stage again next month. More than 1,120 supporters packed the Vertu Motors Arena to register…
Noelia Cacheiro heads into next weekend’s league opener confident that a team growing on and off the court can make some serious noise in the WBBL this season. Newcastle Eagles face Caledonia Gladiators on Friday sweating on the fitness of star duo Chloe Gaynor and Courtney Clasen. And the club is working around the…
