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Georgia Tech's Dani Carnegie leads women's basketball starting five for Week 7
These women’s basketball players posted big-time performances and were named to the NCAA.com starting five this week.
Dani Carnegie, Georgia Tech
For the third straight week, and fourth time overall this season, Georgia Tech freshman guard Dani Carnegie was voted Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Week, after recording her fourth 20-plus point game in Tech’s lone outing this week.
Carnegie scored 24 points and added five rebounds and two steals in Georgia Tech’s 100-61 home win over Pittsburgh on Sunday. It marked her second straight game with 20-plus points, and third in the last four games. Overall, Carnegie has logged 12 double-figure scoring games with a personal-high against the Panthers. Carnegie had four three-pointers to match her season-best, which she has done six times this season. The freshman has hit multiple three-pointers in 11 games to highlight her impressive freshman debut.
Carnegie leads Georgia Tech offensively on the year, averaging 15.1 points per game. She also leads the Yellow Jackets in three-point field goals made (39) and three-point field goal percentage (39.4). She ranks fourth in both statistical categories in the ACC. Carnegie continues to lead all freshmen in scoring in the league and ranks 12th nationally among the freshmen class.
With Georgia Tech’s win against Pittsburgh, the Yellow Jackets moved to 14-0 on the season and 2-0 in conference play. Tech remained steady at No. 13 in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, also released on Monday.
The Yellow Jackets return to action on Jan. 2, welcoming Syracuse to McCamish Pavilion.
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Delanie Crawford, Tulsa
Tulsa’s Delanie Crawford put on a brilliant performance in the Golden Hurricane’s 93-84 home win over East Carolina on opening day of the American Athletic Conference season, scoring a career-high 36 points.
The senior guard connected on 14-of-20 shots from the field, including a 3-for-7 tally from 3-point range, and a perfect 5-for-5 mark from the free-throw line. She collected a team-high seven rebounds and added four steals and two assists for a record-setting day in the Donald W. Reynolds Center.
The 36 points by Crawford ranks as the third-highest total scored by a Tulsa player in program history, just four points shy of the single-game record 40 by Cheryle Meppelink (vs. John Brown, Jan. 10, 1987). The 36 points also marks the second-most scored in a conference game for Tulsa. In addition, Crawford had 26 first-half points, tying Kendrian Elliott’s (2016-20) Reynolds Center record for most points scored in a half. Elliott had 26 in the second half against Arkansas State in 2019. Crawford also finished with 14 made field goals, the second-best single-game effort in Tulsa history. It ties the record for the most recorded in a conference game for the Hurricane.
The Hurricane, 7-6 overall, will spend New Year’s Day in Denton, Texas, where they’ll face North Texas.
Harsimran Kaur, Rhode Island
Senior Harsimran “Honey” Kaur shot lights out in the Atlantic 10 Conference opener for Rhode Island, pouring in a career-best 27 points leading the Rams to an 83-63 win over Saint Louis on Dec. 29.
The center connected on 10-of-16 shots from the floor and was 5-of-7 from the 3-point line, with the five threes establishing a new career-high. Kaur added 10 rebounds for her fourth double-double of the season, and second in as many games.
Named A-10 Player of the Week, Kaur leads the Rams this season in scoring, averaging 12.5 points per game over the first 14 games.
The Rams, 6-8 overall, are back in action on Jan. 2 at St. Bonaventure.
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Olivia Miles, Notre Dame
Notre Dame point guard Olivia Miles produced a historic performance on Sunday against Virginia with an 11-point, 10-rebound, 14-assist triple-double as the third-ranked Fighting Irish rolled to a 95-54 victory over the Hoos. The 14 assists tied a career-high for Miles.
The 5-10 junior achieved her third triple-double of the season and sixth of her career. Miles is now tied with Maryland great Alyssa Thomas for most career triple-doubles in ACC history, and she is the first ever ACC player to notch back-to-back triple-doubles. Miles had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists against Loyola Maryland on Dec. 22. Additionally, Miles joins Jackie Young as the only Notre Dame player to post a triple-double in Atlantic Coast Conference play. Young also did it against Virginia.
But the triple-double accolades weren’t the only lines added to the All-American’s resume last weekend. When Miles grabbed rebound No. 9 on Sunday, she reached 500 in her career. She is now one of just three players in Notre Dame women’s basketball history to have 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 500 assists, joining Skylar Diggins and Lindsay Allen.
On the season, Miles is leading the ACC with 7.2 assists per game. She is also the NCAA’s active leader in career assists per game at 6.8.
Miles and the Irish, 11-2 overall and 2-0 in ACC play, will return to action on Sunday at No. 17 North Carolina.
Maddy Skorupski, Oakland
Oakland improved to 3-0 in Horizon League play as junior guard Maddy Skorupski finished with a career-high 29 points (11-of-20 field goals), five steals and four assists in an 86-85 overtime win over Northern Kentucky on Dec. 29.
Skorupski had given Oakland a two-point lead with 14 seconds remaining in regulation only to see Northern Kentucky tie the game and send it to overtime. In overtime, the Golden Grizzlies would put the game away, as Skorupski’s and-one layup put Oakland ahead 82-75 with 34 seconds left, giving them enough to secure an eventual one-point win, behind a team-effort, going 6-8 (.750) from the field in overtime.
Through 12 games this season, Skorupski is averaging a team-best 17.2 points per game, while shooting 41.9 percent from the floor.
Oakland, 5-7 overall, will look to stay perfect in conference play when they host Cleveland State on Jan. 3.
Georgia baseball will resume its NCAA Athens Regional game with Long Island at 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 29, after persistent rain—heavy at times—forced the suspension of the game.
The Bulldogs have a commanding 15-1 lead with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth.
The teams and some fans waited out a delay that started 7:14 p.m.
The game was suspended officially at 9:06 p.m. Long Island players were already grabbing their equipment in the dugout to depart for the team hotel before then.
The winner of Georgia-LIU will play No. 3 seed Liberty Saturday in the double-elimination tournament in a game scheduled for 5 p.m.
The loser will play No. 2 seed Boston College at noon.
The No. 3 national seed Bulldogs hit six homers before the game was delayed due to heavy rain.
There was a 53 percent chance of rain at 9 a.m. Saturday, according to weather.com, decreasing to 17 percent at 11 a.m., but there’s a threat of storms in the afternoon.
The Georgia Public Service Commission this week approved a plan expected to reduce utility bills for Georgia Power customers by a few dollars a month.
The commission said the change will generate about $285 million in total annual savings for Georgia Power customers, or roughly $50 per year — about $4.04 per month — for the average residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month.
The Georgia PSC voted Thursday to lower overall rates as part of the approved plan.
Georgia Power Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Tyler Cook said the decision will provide “real savings for Georgia families and businesses as the heat of summer begins and energy use increases.”
“At Georgia Power, our teams work every day to run our business efficiently and keep reliable and affordable energy flowing to our customers,” Cook said.
Cook said the outcome followed months of work between Georgia Power and PSC staff, including reviews, public hearings and input from residents and intervenors.
The approved plan is tied to a stipulated agreement reached earlier this month involving two cases filed with the PSC in February, the Fuel Cost Recovery case and the Storm Cost Recovery case. Those cases addressed recovering fuel costs used to generate electricity and expenses tied to restoring power after storms.
Georgia Power said its rates remain, on average, about 15% below the national average and that it is still on track to provide additional annual savings of about $102 per year for typical residential customers beginning in 2029.
ATLANTA – The Georgia Public Service Commission approved a stipulated agreement on Thursday to lower utility rates for Georgia Power customers starting June 1.
The regulatory body voted to pass the deal without changes, establishing how the utility can bill for fuel costs and storm damage restoration expenses.
State regulators approve rate cuts
What we know:
The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) voted 3-2 to reject several utility cost amendments before ultimately passing the overall deal. Under the approved agreement, a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours per month will see monthly bills decrease by roughly $4.03 to $4.04. Total annual savings across all 2.8 million Georgia Power customers are projected to reach approximately $285 million.
The deal reduces how much money the utility can recover from its customer base for storm expenses by nearly 60%, dropping the revenue requirement from $270 million down to $109 million. The agreement also extends the amortization of storm recovery costs, largely tied to Hurricane Helene in 2024, to 67 months, caps natural gas advance purchases at 20% over a 36-month window, and cuts $13 million from the company’s original fuel recovery estimates.
Accountability questions remain unresolved
What we don’t know:
While the PSC agreed to launch a separate investigation into how fuel costs are allocated, officials have not yet confirmed how much large industrial operations will be forced to pay in future rate cases. Consumer advocacy groups argue that massive data center companies are driving up fuel costs for everyday ratepayers without paying for the infrastructure upgrades they require. Critics note that it remains unclear if a future utility asset structure will successfully shift financial burdens away from residential homes.
The Source: The information in this story was gathered from official press releases issued by the Georgia Public Service Commission and Georgia Power, as well as previous FOX 5 Atlanta reporting.
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