WETMORE — Three players on the boys basketball team at Munising Baptist High School earned honors when the Northern Lights League determined postseason honors recently.

Senior Gabe Heyrman and freshman Ian Cross were each named to the boys all-conference honorable mention list, while Bobcats sophomore Ethan Swift earn a position on the league’s Sportsmanship squad.

This league is made up of some of the smallest-enrollment schools in Michigan, all located in the Upper Peninsula and several Great Lakes islands located off the coast of the U.P.

Senior Sam Beaver of the Hannahville Nah Tah Wahsh school near Wilson in Menominee County was named Northern Lights Player of the Year for the boys, while senior Caragin Thill of Big Bay de Noc in Cooks was named Player of the Year in girls basketball.

Here are the other conference honorees for both boys and girls, listed with year and school. Because of the small size of most of these schools, some varsity teams can include eighth-graders, and in some cases, seventh-graders:

Boys

First Team — Sam Beaver, sr. Hannahville; Parker Pederson, jr., Big Bay de Noc; Caden Chromy, jr., Maplewood Baptist; Henry Lyon, sr., Ojibwe Charter; Nathaniel Malloy, sr., Ojibwe Charter

Second Team — Devin Artegea, soph., Hannahville; Keenan Smith, soph., Hannahville; Tyler Browne, soph., Maplewood Baptist; Jordan Fisher, soph., Mackinac Island; Tanner Peterson, soph., Big Bay de Noc

Honorable mention — Joey Hudecek, jr., Maplewood Baptist; Lysander McGinnity, sr., Beaver Island; Brady Hardy, soph., Mackinac Island; Blake Middleton, soph., Paradise; Parker DeLaat, jr., Beaver Island

Sportsmanship — Parker DeLaat, jr., Beaver Island, Elijah Cooper, soph., Big Bay de Noc, Devin Artegea, soph., Hannahville; Roman Gruits, sr., Mackinac Island; Trygvee Rader, soph., Maplewood Baptist; Eric Mongene, jr., Ojibwe Charter; Andy Fryling, soph., Paradise

Girls

First Team — Caragan Thill, sr., Big Bay de Noc; Lakelyn Bunker, sr., Mackinac Island; Kelsey Rader, 8th grade, Maplewood Baptist; Payton Pederson, jr., Big Bay de Noc; Kaylee Cowell Mackinac Island

Second Team — Ellie Jentoft, sr., Maplewood Baptist; Destiny Bleau, soph., Big Bay de Noc; Sienna Kuzmik, sr., Ojibwe Charter; Sophie McDonough, sr., Beaver Island; Brittany Thunder, sr., Hannahville

Honorable mention — Kendreya Teeple, jr., Ojibwe Charter; Xandra Duffing, soph., Beaver Island; Laniceya Malinowski, sr., Hannahville

Sportsmanship — Sophie McDonough, sr., Beaver Island; Kentlee DesJarden, 8th grade, Big Bay de Noc; Brittany Thunder, sr., Hannahville; Lennon Perault, 7th grade, Mackinac Island; Lily Peterson, jr., Maplewood Baptist; Zoe Anderson, jr., Ojibwe Charter

Story contents based on an Escanaba Daily Press story by sportswriter Adam Hinch. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.