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On the face of it a 25-point win for the Eagles to bounce back from their defeat seven days prior to Sheffield Hatters looks a comfortable outcome. It was anything but as for the first three quarters there was little between the sides. Indeed, the Wildcats who came into the game with a 2 wins…
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…
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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…
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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…
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Newcastle Eagles failed to pull off another dramatic win down the stretch as a rebooted Caledonia Gladiators dumped the men in black out of the SLB Cup. The battling hosts overturned a 17-point deficit to lead for the first time with fewer than three minutes on the clock. And it looked like ‘Money’ Mike Okauru…
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If it’s true that you learn more about yourself in adversity than you do in triumph then Newcastle Eagles will have learned a lot about themselves after Sunday’s mauling at Leicester Riders in the SLB Championship. It’s advantage Leicester in the league situation after the home side swept all four quarters and put in a…
