Marquette’s Chase Thomsen serves during the No. 1 singles championship match against Negaunee’s Gavin Saunders at the Negaunee Invitational boys tennis meet held Saturday, May 18, 2024, at the Miners’ courts. (Journal photo by Caden Sierra)

MARQUETTE — Marquette County’s three Upper Peninsula Division 1 boys tennis teams were each represented when All-U.P. teams were selected at the MHSAA finals held in Escanaba on Wednesday.

As the top two teams at the finals, Marquette and Negaunee had almost equal recognition, while fifth-place Westwood also had a pair of representatives.

The U.P. Division 1 champion Sentinels swept the special awards, with Chase Thomsen, the No. 1 singles titlist at the finals, named Player of the Year and MSHS mentor Karl Thomsen the Coach of the Year.

Chase Thomsen was also one of a half-dozen Division 1 players to earn All-State Division 1 honors. He was named to that elite squad in singles, as was Kingsford’s Gavin Moore, while Negaunee’s Nolan O’Dovero and Easton Guenette and the Flivvers’ Isaac Lebouef and Jacob Crockford made it in doubles.

All-U.P. First Team honors in singles went to a half-dozen players — Chase Thomsen, the Miners’ Brady Johnson and Ethan Harris, Westwood’s Jaxson Alderton, Moore, and the Flivvers’ Landon Adam.

In doubles, All-U.P. First Team laurels went to these six tandems — O’Dovero and Guenette, Marquette’s Abe Kentala and Connor Stade, the Sentinels’ Conner Henry and Lucas Belkowski, the Patriots’ Reid Frustaglio and Cameron Mahaffey, Leboeuf and Crockford, and Escanaba’s Andrew Lord and Alex Morgan.

Honorable Mention status was bestowed on another four singles players and the same number of doubles athletes.

In singles, that honor went to Negaunee’s Kolten Store, Marquette’s Caden Laurn, and Escanaba’s Nick Chaillier and Connor Howes.

Doubles pairs getting HM are the Miners’ Quinn Walters and Carson Lajimodiere and Esky’s Adam Prey and Caden Fulsher.

Story contents based on email received from Marquette head coach Karl Thomsen. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.