Newcastle Eagles play-caller Fab Flournoy has hailed the firepower of One Health Sharks Sheffield ahead of the teams’ crunch meeting tonight at the EIS as the clubs meet for the third time this season with both having won their respective home games against each other in the BBL Trophy. Flournoy and his players are under…
Old rivals One Health Sharks Sheffield Sharks and Newcastle Eagles will meet with BBL Championship points at stake on Friday evening. Sharks are unbeaten in their three league games this season (though this may change at Guildford tonight), while Eagles have picked up after three straight losses to start the Championship season and are now…
BBL Trophy, Group Stage One Health Sharks Sheffield 92 (24,52,64) (Tuck 24, Dagostino 21, Williams 15) Newcastle Eagles 91 (19,41,71) (Moore 18, Chapman 17, Defoe 16) The Newcastle Eagles – defending BBL Trophy champions – had already clinched their berth to the semi-finals of the competition before losing a thrilling game 92-91 to the One…
Newcastle Eagles 107 (23,42,58,89,97) (Chapman 32, Smith 24, Bridge 16) Sheffield Sharks 104 (23,45,69,89,97) (Stout 36, Williams 21, Dagostino 20) Newcastle Eagles eventually overcame One Health Sharks Sheffield in double-overtime thriller in the north-east to take control of BBL Trophy group 4. Eagles fought back from trailing by 13 points late in the third quarter…
Newcastle Eagles have retained their BBL League Championship after the Sheffield Sharks lost a thrilling match against Worthing Thunder, 97 – 95. The Sharks needed to win to force the Newcastle Eagles to make the trip to Glasgow and register a win against the Scottish Rocks. A daunting task to say the least! The Sheffield…
BBL Championship Newcastle Eagles 89 (16,39,67) (Smith 17, Bridge/Chapman/Stewart 15) Sheffield Sharks 93 (24,49,61) (Cook 36, Toney 19, Patton 17) Sheffield Sharks extended their lead at the top of the BBL Championship after beating second placed Newcastle Eagles 89-93 in the north east. The Sharks were the dominant side throughout but allowed an 18-point second…
Newcastle Eagles 84 (20, 42, 63) (Smith 23, Jackson 17, Stewart 16) Sheffield Sharks 74 (18,31,54) (Cook 29, Lawson 13, Patton 11) The sides were basket for basket in the first quarter of this eagerly anticipated encounter, as the Sharks led 16-13, before a 7-2 run from the Eagles took the score to 18-20 to…
Sheffield Sharks 78 Newcastle Eagles 81 Eagles started Joe Chapman, Andrew Bridge, Darius Defoe, Lynard Stewart and Fab Flournoy. For Sharks, although Matt Gorman had just flown in the day before he started alongside Ryan Patton, Atiba Lyons, Mike Cook and Tafari Toney. Eagles started the brighter and had a double-digit lead at one stage…
Sheffield Sharks 66 (17,38,55) (Sanders 18, Gorman 15, Rivers 12) Newcastle Eagles 80 (20,37,56) (Jackson 18, Toney 17, Moore 16) Newcastle Eagles finished their build-up to the BBL Trophy Final on Sunday with a 66-80 victory over the Sheffield Sharks at the EIS, Sheffield on Wednesday evening. The victory also increases the Eagles’ lead at…
