BBL FINAL- 12th January

Annual Trip to BBL Final

CHS’ basketballer’s watched Newcastle Eagles claim their third British Basketball League Cup title at Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena earlier this month.

Basketball has become so popular at Congleton High School over the last few years that the trip to watch the final has become an annual trip.

With the Eagles’ losing out in the previous two finals by narrow margins, with some of Congleton’s players supporting the Eagles they were hoping that they would be cheering their side to victory this time around.

Newcastle had a nine point advantage going into the final quarter but CHS’ Eagles fans would have remembered the last two years in which they saw Newcastle lose 85-80 in 2013 despite leading with just 90 seconds left and then last year the Leicester Rider’s overturned an 11-point deficit with six minutes to go to beat the Eagles. However, there was not going to be a repeat of this this time around as Newcastle defeated Glasgow Rocks 84-71.

Written by Adam Bailey