Tuesday's Central Georgia Daily News 'n Notes
Tuesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
High School basketball and wrestling coaches: You should have received an email from The Sports Report through your AD on season info. Please check with your AD. Regardless, all should send their schedule to centralgasports@gmail.com for Central Georgia’s only schedule, and sent postgame results and information as soon as possible to centralgasports@gmail.com.
Honor Roll
Lather, rinse, repeat, and hand the Southern Conference women's basketball player of the week to Mercer's Amanda Thompson.
She has taken the honor for the third straight week and fourth time this season. The preseason all-conference selection and December player of the month is the first player to win player of the week three straight times since ETSU’s Tianna Tarter in 2016. She is also the last player to win it four times in a season.
Thompson got her fourth straight double-double, with 16 points and 11 rebounds in a 71-66 loss at Jacksonville. The fifth straight one came on 18 points and 11 rebounds in a loss to Columbia.
Thompson leads the league in rebounding (9.1 per game) and offensive rebounds (3.8 per game) and is second in steals (2.3 per game). Additionally, she is in the top 10 in scoring, field goal percentage, defensive rebounds and minutes played.
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