Bullish Rachael Bland insists Newcastle Eagles boast the talent and experience to send northern rivals Sheffield Hatters packing tonight. The experienced guard promised lessons have been learnt from sobering back-to-back losses against title-chasing Leicester Riders and London Lions. And Bland expects the Abby Lowe factor to give Newcastle a fresh injection of power, pace and…
Law firm Sintons is continuing its commitment to North East sport – and building further on its support of basketball – by becoming a sponsor of the Newcastle Eagles women’s team. Newcastle Eagles are the most successful club in British basketball and North East sporting history, and since 2018-19 have operated the region’s top-flight Women’s…
It was a bad night at the office for the Newcastle Eagles WBBL side last Saturday night as minus four senior players they had to take on the domestically unbeaten London Lions. It was therefore no real surprise at anyone when Lions took the win but perhaps the margin of victory was. A score line…
Perhaps a veil should be drawn over Saturday’s WBBL Championship game when the domestically unbeaten and possibly unbeatable London Lions came to town. But that would be churlish as you have to give credit to a Lions side that might well be the best to ever play in the WBBL. They certainly came, we saw…
Abby Lowe insists Newcastle have nothing to lose as the Eagles bid to become the first British side to defeat London Lions this season. The returning favourite rejoined the women in black this week determined to play her part in a fresh playoff push. But Lowe admits nobody expects Newcastle to put a dent in…
Newcastle Eagles WBBL have been boosted by the return of former favourite Abby Lowe with Saturday’s London Lions test looming large. The undefeated Championship leaders bring their 8-0 record to Tyneside this weekend looking to take one step closer to another UK title. But London may be forced to contend with a fired-up Lowe after…
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’…
Chloe Gaynor promised Newcastle’s powerful frontcourt trio will put the ‘Big’ into The Big One as top-flight women’s basketball takes centre stage this Friday. The homecourt Eagles host high flying Leicester Riders looking to set a WBBL attendance record for the second successive season. And all eyes will be on Gaynor and fellow bigs Nette…
