Newcastle Eagles wrapped up the club’s summer 2024 pre-season programme with a commanding win against a powerful Bristol Flyers. A dominant 91-71 victory was in complete contrast to Sunday’s disappointing defeat at the hands of the rebranded Surrey 89ers. And Marc Steutel can approach the season-opening Trophy clash against Sheffield Sharks on September 27 with…
Pre-Season
Cole Long’s impressive double double couldn’t save Newcastle Eagles from pre-season defeat as the Surrey 89ers claimed a comfortable win on Tyneside. Long looked hungry throughout as he added two assists and a block to a stacked stat line. But with only three Eagles stars hitting double figures, the Canadian all-rounder’s Herculean effort wasn’t enough…
Newcastle Eagles Women’s Super League Basketball team has secured a sponsorship deal with Newcastle International Airport who will adorn the front of their 2024/25 jerseys. Unfortunately this didn’t help the Eagles women to get off to a flying start in their opening pre-season game. Faced with a very tough, talented and well-organised Sheffield Hatters side,…
One thing was certain in this curtain raising opening pre-season game at the Vertu Motors Arena. The winning team would come from Newcastle! That’s because former Eagles Assistant Coach Mark Elderkin brought his Knights NBL Division 1 side to take on Marc Steutel’s new-look 2024/25 roster. In the end it was the home court Super…
Newcastle Eagles Women’s Super League Basketball squad are delighted to share the huge news of the return to Tyneside for last season’s star, Tierra Hodges. The powerful all-round forward coming back to lead from the front after a stellar first season in the Women’s top-flight league is a major coup for coach Matt Newby and…
Newcastle Eagles women’s roster for 2024/25 is coming together nicely as head coach Matt Newby adds a returning fans favourite to the fore. Power forward Chloe Gaynor will lace them up and step onto the court for her fourth consecutive campaign as an Eagle to bolster their inside strength. Last season Gaynor was a vital…
Newcastle Eagles are set to host an exciting pre-season series building-up to the 2024/25 Super League Basketball tip-off. It all starts with an opening encounter against the Eagles’ performance pathway partners and NBL Division 1 side Newcastle University Knights on Sunday 8 September at 5:30pm. The series will then welcome two top-flight clubs to the…
It would appear that the Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles Head Coach Noelia Cacheiro and her players have a lot of work to do before they open their Women’s British Basketball League campaign against Manchester Giants on October 20th. Last weekend they’d gone down to a 20-point defeat at home in their opening pre-season game against…
Perhaps the biggest surprise in this match-up between two of the more fancied British Basketball League’s teams was the final score. Somehow the visiting Gladiators managed to keep the gap to less than double figures in a highly competitive and entertaining pre-season game that had all the hallmarks and qualities of a truly meaningful encounter…