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Boston Globe
22-02-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Donald Hand Jr. scores 20, Boston College rides strong defense past Georgia Tech for second straight win
On Senior Day, senior Chad Venning and sophomore Elijah Strong were stoppers in the middle for BC. Venning scored 13 points and grabbed 7 rebounds, but more importantly blocked 4 shots. Strong added 9 points and 2 rebounds. Advertisement Chad Venning with the REJECTION 🚫 📺 — BC Men's Basketball (@BCMBB) The Eagles led by five at intermission, 32-27, but Venning scored on three straight layups and added two free throws to fuel a 10-0 run to open the second half and the lead reached 15 points with 14 minutes left. Georgia Tech crawled back and Naithan George's 3-pointer with 4:28 left cut the deficit to 56-50. Dion Brown hit two clutch baskets and Hand drew a foul on a deep 3-point attempt and knocked down two of three at the line. Baye Ndongo had 17 points, 15 rebounds, and 4 assists to lead Georgia Tech (13-14, 7-9). Lance Terry added 15 points. Boston College is a 1½ games out of earning one of the 14 spots in the ACC tournament with four games left to play. The Eagles travel to face Stanford Wednesday and California Saturday.
Associated Press
22-02-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Hand scores 20, Boston College rides strong defense to 2nd straight win, 69-54 over Georgia Tech
BOSTON (AP) — Donald Hand Jr. scored 20 points and Boston College turned in a second-straight strong defensive performance as the Eagles pulled away late to post a 69-54 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday. Boston College (12-15, 4-12) snapped a four-game losing streak Tuesday by beating Virginia Tech, 54-36, the lowest point total by an ACC opponent since the Eagles joined the conference at the start of the 2005-06 season, and the defensive emphasis carried over against the Yellow Jackets, who were held to just 32.1% shooting and forced into committing 13 turnovers. On Senior Day, senior Chad Venning and sophomore Elijah Strong were stoppers in the middle for Boston College. Venning scored 13 points and grabbed seven rebounds, but more important defensively blocked four shots. Strong added nine points and two rebounds. The Eagles led by five at intermission, 32-27, but Venning scored on three straight layups and added two free throws to fuel a 10-0 run to open the second half and the lead reached 15 points with 14 minutes left. Georgia Tech crawled back and Naithan George's 3-pointer with 4:28 left cut the deficit to 56-50. Dion Brown hit two clutch baskets and Hand drew a foul on a deep 3-point attempt and knocked down two of three at the line. Baye Ndongo scored 17 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and dished four assists to lead Georgia Tech (13-14, 7-9). Lance Terry added 15 points. Boston College is a game-and-a-half out of earning one of the 14 spots in the ACC tournament with four games left to play. The Eagles travel to face Stanford Wednesday and California Saturday. Georgia Tech plays at Pittsburgh Tuesday. ___
BBC News
19-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
NI Water: Funding gap 'won't be solved by asking developers to pay'
"The big gap" in funding for water infrastructure won't be solved by Stormont's proposals to ask housing developers to help pay for it, Northern Ireland Water has said,Sara Venning, the public water company's chief executive, said it would benefit some housing projects but revenue-raising would be "fairly limited".Funding pressures affecting the wastewater system have been blamed for holding up housebuilding and other infrastructure projects in Northern Minister Liz Kimmins said she was "exploring options for developer contributions", with a consultation due to be launched in March. Plans for thousands of homes have been held up due to restrictions on new connections to the water system. Ms Venning told the Northern Ireland Assembly's infrastructure committee that NI Water had "at least an £800m investment gap".She said discussions would be held during the week with the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) on the idea of "developer contributions".But Ms Venning said the "opportunity to raise additional revenue is fairly limited"."I do know for some developers, it may be helpful to be able to fund wastewater infrastructure ancillary to their site, but it is in the smaller order," she said."It is probably something along the lines of, it helps in the short term, but it isn't the long-term solution."She added that she believed developer contributions would "help in some areas, but it won't solve the big gap". Ultimately 'consumers will pay' Ms Venning was responding to questions from Democratic Unionist Party assembly member Keith described the proposals for housing developer payments as a "consumer contribution"."The developer isn't going to pay for that - it's going to fundamentally be the consumer," he who was recently appointed as infrastructure minister in a Sinn Féin reshuffle, said wastewater problems had "no quick fix or easy solution". She blamed the issues on "years of neglect as a result of British government austerity and underfunding"."The need to modernise our ageing wastewater system is a top priority for me," she said earlier in February."There is no quick fix or easy solution, which is why innovative thinking and collaborative working are so important."That is why I am exploring options for developer contributions, and I have also tasked my officials to work at a strategic level with the Department for Communities and the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to establish better ways of working together to increase housing provision."
