The WBBL Championship season started on Saturday with five teams in action over the weekend, and the first WBBL All-Star Five of the new campaign is comprised of some very familiar faces with all of the starters being veterans of the league and their clubs, paced by a pair of Sevenoaks Suns. Cat Carr – …
WBBL ChampionshipNottingham Wildcats 65-46 Cardiff Met Archers (15-11, 40-25, 50-33, 65-46)(Wildcats – J.Joyner 17, C.Shumpert 15, M.Lundqvist 9; Archers – S.Wagstaff 12, K.Kheing 10, R.Lewis 8) WBBL ChampionshipNewcastle Eagles 47-75 Sevenoaks Suns (10-16, 23-39, 33-58, 47-75)(Eagles – M. Kvederaviciute 12, M.Mcvicar 9, L.Koop 8; Suns – C.Carr 22, T.Clark 14, I. Garrido-Perez 10) The Nottingham …
WBBL ChampionshipManchester Met Mystics 82-56 Newcastle Eagles (30-20, 46-42, 59-49)(Mystics – Jones 20, Naylor 12, Bailey 11; Eagles – Gorrell 20, McVicar 14, Koop 7) Manchester Met Mystics opened the new WBBL Championship season with a comprehensive 82-56 win over Newcastle Eagles at the National Basketball Performance Centre on Saturday afternoon. Neither team came into …
The WBBL Cup semi-finals were confirmed over the weekend and some big-scoring games were led by outstanding individual performances, dominated by the East Midlands. Jasmine Joyner paced the team for the second time already this season, followed, also for the second time, by Holly Winterburn among some amazing shooting displays. Jasmine Joyner – Nottingham Wildcats …
WBBL Cup, South Group Cardiff Met Archers 50-65 Sevenoaks Suns (17-21, 23-31, 40-47) (Archers- Marchizotti 14, Lewis 9, Jorgensen 7; Suns- Busch 25, Monakana 13, Koppl 11) WBBL Cup, North Group Newcastle Eagles 71-96 Leicester Riders (22-16, 40-39, 62-60) (Eagles- Gorrell 19, Mcvicar 16, Smith 14; Riders- Oliver 29, Winterburn 18, Hinriksdottir 16) The …
There were some heavyweight clashes in the busiest weekend of WBBL Cup action of this season so far, as Leicester Riders won a derby, with victories also for Newcastle Eagles and Cup holders Sevenoaks Suns. Fittingly, the All-Star Five is paced by the Suns’ star from January’s WBBL Cup Final. Janice Monakana – Sevenoaks Suns …
WBBL Cup, South Group BA London Lions 60-70 Sevenoak Suns (12-28, 31-46, 45-59) (Lions – Beckford-Norton 19, Leonard 13, Charles 9; Suns – Monakana 19, Carr 15, Busch 15) WBBL Cup, North Group Newcastle Eagles 78-68 Manchester Met Mystics(21-16,43-34,58-58) (Eagles – Gorrell 25,Mcvicar 21 ,Kverderavicutie 13 ; Mystics – Song 25,Horton 15, Bailey 12) Sevenoak …
The first All-Star 5 of the 2020-21 WBBL season is dominated by familiar faces from the East Midlands, as Leicester Riders and Nottingham Wildcats secured big double-digit wins. Jasmine Joyner – Nottingham Wildcats In her third WBBL season with the Wildcats, Joyner has started in the same fashion as always with a 17 point and …
WBBL Cup, North Group Leicester Riders 65-44 Manchester Met Mystics (21-6, 20-8, 15-13, 10-17) (Riders – Winterburn 15, Clark 13, Hinriksdottir 8; Mystics – Shaw 8, Jones 6, Allen 6) WBBL Cup, North Group Nottingham Wildcats 64 – 51 Newcastle Eagles (14-16, 17-16, 15-9, 17-10) (Wildcats – Joyner 17, Costa 16, Shumpert 15; Eagles – …
Chris Bunten has added a surprise name to his Newcastle Eagles roster after landing Jorjah Smith just two-and-a-half weeks before this season’s big WBBL tip-off. On the day that the new fixture list was finally revealed, nobody expected another new face to jet into Tyneside. But it seems Bunten has been working on a deal …