Sat, 25th Nov: Newcastle Eagles swoop for LU victory..

Saturday 25th November, 2006

BBL CHAMPIONSHIP

London United 73-93 Newcastle Eagles  

QUARTERSCORES:

16-15, 31-43, 45-68, 73-93

GAME TOP SCORERS:

London United (Tarick Johnson 21, Phil Perre 19, Chris Haslam 12)

Newcastle Eagles (Shawan Robinson 28, Darius Defoe 16, TJ Walker 12)

Springfield Honda Newcastle Eagles broke a tie for sixth place in the league with London United by beating them 93-73 in the capital.

United edged a tight first quarter 16-15 and still led 20-18 early in the second period before a 17-0 run by the Eagles, which included two threes by Andrew Bridge (pictured) and one by player/coach Fab Flournoy broke the game open 35-20.

London got it back to 24-35 but that was as close as they would get as Newcastle went in at half time 43-31 up and extended that to 68-45 at three-quarter time.

Eagles’ Shawan Robinson led all scorers with 28, with Tarick Johnson hot for 21 points for United.

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