Chad Venning, Donald Hand Jr. help Boston College edge Stonehill

Chad Venning scored a team-high 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting as Boston College held off visiting Stonehill for a 73-69 win Sunday afternoon in nonconference action in Chestnut Hill, Mass.Venning contributed eight second-half points to help the Eagles (7-4) hold off a late rally that saw a 13-point lead with 9:25 left cut to just two in the final minute.Chas Kelley III and Donald Hand Jr. each added 12 for Boston College, which had been on a three-game skid. Hand hit the first pair of free throws that iced the game after a 5-0 run from Stonehill (6-6) made it a two-point game with 21 seconds left.Todd Brogna shot 10-of-16 to score a career-high 25 points with four assists for the Skyhawks, who played without leading scorer Josh Morgan (ankle). Ethan Meuser (11) and Amir Nesbitt (10) were also double-digit scorers for Stonehill.After going 4-of-7 from 3-point range to finish the first half, Boston College upped its lead to 41-30 with a 6-0 run out of the break, as Hand and Venning finished at the rim and Elijah Strong scored a transition layup in a span of just 1:32.Stonehill never went away throughout the second half, and Meuser — playing with four fouls — canned back-to-back 3-pointers to cap a 7-0 run with 3:46 left.Strong forced his way to the rim to start a 4-0 Eagle response, but Brogna and Hermann Koffi triples — with a Venning putback in between — made up a 6-2 run that kept the Skyhawks within 69-65 with 1:38 left.After a steal by Chas Stinson (eight points, seven rebounds), Brogna and Nesbitt laid in Stonehill’s final baskets in between Boston College’s clinching foul shots.