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NCCU - 3 Time Champions
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Eagles Halt Norfolk State for
Third Consecutive MEAC
Tournament Championship
NCCU Athletics
NORFOLK, Va. - North Carolina Central University had to grind out a win
down the stretch against Norfolk State, and the Eagles watched a potential tying
three-pointer skip off the iron as time expired to take the 2019 MEAC Tourna
ment Championship, 50-47 on Saturday, March 16 at Scope Arena.
With the win, NCCU (18-15) has now clinched three consecutive NCAA Tour
nament appearances for the first time in school history, and are the first team to
win three consecutive league tournament titles since North Carolina A&T won
seven on the bounce from 1982-88.
The two sides were narrowly separated in the first 20 minutes of play as the
Eagles only were able to lead by two points, but NSU (21-13) was able to stretch
the lead to as many as 10, and took a 32-22 lead to the locker room at the inter
mission.
The Eagles were held without a point over the final four minutes of play in the
first half, but they immediately shifted into high gear after the restart, ripping off
a 12-0 run over two minutes to pull the game level at 34-34 with 16:05 to play.
The lead teetered back and forth from that point, but the Eagles were finally
able to nose ahead at the 12-minute mark, stamped by four straight points from
Zacarry Douglas (Landover, Md.).
The Eagles went on to build a seven-point lead with eight minutes to go, but
from there the Spartans mounted a rally. NSU closed the game on a 7-3 run, and
again held the Eagles scoreless over the final four minutes of the contest.
The Spartans had a chance to once again send the game to an extra period, and
again it was in the hands of Mastadi Pitt (Hampton, Va.) who sent the game to
overtime at Echols Hall on Feb. 16. This time around, he faced a tough shot con
test from Douglas, and the potential game-tying shot missed to the left to send
the Eagles to the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive year.
The Eagles clamped down on the Spartans in the second half, holding NSU to
just 4-for-22 from mthe floor, and 0-5 from the perimeter.
Raasean Davis (Chicago, Ill.) was named Most Outstanding Player of the tour
nament after putting up eight points and a game-high 14 rebounds in the title
game. Douglas also earned All-Tournament Team honors with a double-double
against NSU with 10 points and 12 boards. Over the three games, Davis aver
aged 12.3 points and 8.7 rebounds, and Douglas contributed 9.0 points and 10.7
caroms.
Pitt led the Spartans in scoring with 14 points, and C.J. Kelly (Long Island,
N.Y.) chipped in 13 points. Steven Whitley (Norfolk, Va.) also had a full game
eight points and nine rebounds.
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Attached photo courtesy of KeShawn Ennis
Blacks, Hispanics breathe more
pollution than they make
BySethBorenstein
WASHINGTON (AP) - African-Americans and Hispanics breathe in far more deadly air pollution
than they are responsible for making, a new study said.
A study looked at who is exposed to fine particle pollution - responsible for about 100,000 American
deaths a year - and how much different races are responsible for the pollution based on their buying, driv
ing and living habits.
Scientists calculate that Hispanics on average breathe in 63 percent more of the pollution that leads to
heart and breathing deaths than they make. For African-Americans the figure is 56 percent, according to
a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
On the other hand, non-Hispanic whites on average are exposed to 17 percent less air pollution than
they make.
“Even though minorities are contributing less to the overall problem of air pollution, they are affected
by it more,” said study co-author Jason Hill, a biosystems engineering professor at the University of
Minnesota who is white. “Is it fair (that) I create more pollution and somebody else is disproportionately
affected by it?”
This pollution comes from gases from smokestacks, tailpipes and other places that then solidify into
fine invisible particles small enough to pass through lungs and into bloodstreams. These particles, more
than 25 times smaller than the width of a. human hair, pose the greatest risk to people’s health, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency says.
While other studies have shown minorities living with more pollution, this study is one of the first to
combine buying habits and exposure into one calculation of inequity, Hill said.
Hill and colleagues looked at pollution from highways, coal-fired power plants, hog farms and other
sources.
They then looked in a large scale at who is driving more, buying more goods and food, spending more
on property and using more electricity, then traced those purchases to end users.
“On average whites tend to consume more than minorities. It’s because of wealth,” Hill said. “It’s
largely how much you buy, not buying different things.”