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5 Alger County boys earn Skyline Central Conference basketball honors

Munising’s Cade Contreras, right, defends Jordan Stein of Gwinn on Dec. 6 at Gwinn High School. (Journal file photo by Rachel Oakley)

ESCANABA — Three Munising and two Superior Central players were named when the Skyline Central Conference announced its boys basketball honor squad recently.

The Mustangs, who tied Bark River-Harris for second place overall in the league with a 10-3 record, had a pair of Second Team players, juniors Cade Contreras and Alec Blank.

Three more Alger County players earned honorable mention — sophomore Jesse Mattson of Munising and juniors Beau Rondeau and Joe Heinonen of Superior Central.

Undefeated North Central had both players who shared the Player of the Year award — seniors Jason Whitens and Dawson Bilski.

Their coach, Adam Mercier, was named Coach of the Year for 20-0 regular season and 13-0 conference marks.

Munising's Alec Blank, right, attempts to inbound the ball with North Central's Bobby Kleiman defending during the first quarter of a Skyline Central Conference boys basketball game played at the Mustangs' gym on Feb. 21. (Journal photo by Steve Brownlee)

The Jets also won the Team Sportsmanship Award while NC senior Seth Polfus was honored with the league Sportsmanship Award, and junior Ryan Arndt of Bark River-Harris was Free-Throw Champion.

Here are the other honorees:

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First Team — Jason Whitens, sr., North Central; Dawson Bilski, sr., NC; Marcus Krachinski, sr., NC; Dan Nocerini, sr., Forest Park; Logan Hardwick, jr., Rapid River; Ryan Arndt, jr., Bark River-Harris; Tyler Johnson, sr., Big Bay de Noc; Hunter Eichhorn, sr., Carney-Nadeau; Duane Englund, sr., Mid Peninsula; Garrett O’Neil, sr., North Dickinson.

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Second Team — Bobby Kleiman, sr., NC; Seth Polfus, sr., NC; Jace Briggs, sr., BR-H; Erik Johnson, sr., BBdN; Mason Linder, sr., C-N; Terry Brower, sr., MP.

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All-Defensive Team — Mason Berglund, sr., RR; Ben Schultz, jr., BR-H; Eichhorn, C-N; Nocerini, FP; Englund, MP; Bilski, NC; O’Neil, ND.

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Honorable mention — Schultz, BR-H; Logan Heim, jr., BR-H; Jake Kleiman, jr., C-N; Riley Hendrickson, soph., FP; Mitch Barron, sr., MP; Devin Wagner, sr., ND; Hunter Mattson, sr., ND; Tyler Sundling, fr., RR; Cameron Willemsen, jr., RR.

Information compiled by Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee. His email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.

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