Currence stepped up and inspired Eagles to victories

NEWCASTLE Eagles fly into tonight's home Super League Basketball play-off quarter-final in confident mood and with massive momentum after last weekend's wonderful double-winning weekend.

- By JEFF KING

It was a weekend that saw them secure a highest ever League placing of third. To win back-to-back games within 15 hours of each other is one thing - to do it without star forward Tierra Hodges was quite another.

Head Coach Chloe Gaynor needed someone to step up and answer the call. That someone one was Kendall Currence. Top scoring efforts in each game including a last-second buzzer-beating winner at Durham on Sunday inspired her team-mates to both victories and gave the Eagles a superb platform for tonight's game.

Currence reflected on that as she looked forward to the Essex Rebels challenge ahead.

"It was a big weekend for me and the team. Not having 'T' was a factor but as a team we came together," she said.