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Northern Colorado women’s basketball player Simental named Big Sky Conference player of the week
Northern Colorado’s Hannah Simental was named the Big Sky Conference women’s basketball player of the week for the first time this season, the league office announced Tuesday.
Simental, a senior guard from Pueblo, scored a season high 27 points Jan. 3 in an overtime loss at Oral Roberts. Three days later, Simental scored 23 points and hit the game-winning 3-pointer to lead UNC to a win over the University of Denver.
Both games were played as part of the Big Sky-Summit League Challenge, which was a two-date series between men’s and women’s teams in both conferences.
Simental averaged 25 points on 50% shooting from the field in the games against ORU and Denver. She shot nearly 44% (7 of 16) total from 3-point range in those games. Simental also recorded six rebounds, five assists and two steals.
She leads UNC in scoring with 15.2 points per game in 12 games, and she’s the third-leading scorer among Big Sky players.
Simental is the first UNC player to earn the Big Sky Conference player of the week honor since teammate Delaynie Byrne was selected in week two on Nov. 21. Byrne is the Bears’ second-leading scorer at 15.1 points. She leads the team and Big Sky in rebounds at 8.75.
Colorado
Colorado elections clerk set to be released from prison Monday based on her sentence commutation
DENVER, Colo. (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county’s election system.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ sentence last month following pressure from President Donald Trump.
The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters’ release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed.
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell — who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 — and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Trump had championed Peters’ case, but because the 70-year-old was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a White House meeting with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado and relocated the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Polis commuted Peters’ sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was “extremely unusual and lengthy” for a first-time non-violent offender.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a “dark day for democracy” and said it amounted to ”selling out our state’s justice system for Trump.”
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