Lakes football collects Great Lakes 8 honors
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LAKE LINDEN -- The Lake Linden-Hubbell Lakes football team had a perfect regular season, and with that success, they earned most of the major conference awards. The Lakes were named Team of the Year, Brett Gervais was named Coach of the Year, and senior Brady Axford was named Offensive Player of the Year.
Norway senior Landon Ross was named Defensive Player of the Year.
On offense, Lake Linden senior Josh Daavettila was named to the First Team as an offensive lineman. He was joined by Gogebic's Jayden Verrett, Crystal Falls Forest Park's Dax Huuki and Vic Giuliani, North Central's Kaden Malone and Myles Nehring, and Norway's Trent Martin, and Kaleb Lapine.
The Lakes had three players named to the Second Team, junior quarterback Blake Lebo, senior offensive hybrid Tyler Axford and junior offensive lineman Charlie Hainault. Ontonagon junior Brody Bobula was named as an offensive hybrid as well.
Others honored were Munising's Levi Hauler and Ethan Peterson, Ishpeming's Derek Meyer and Xavier Bannister, and North Central's Riley Cretens.
Brady and Tyler Axford both made the First Team Defense. Tyler was named as a linebacker while Brady was named as a defensive back. Daavettila was also named to the team as a defensive hybrid.
Gogebic's Cayden Harju and Henry Jenkins were also named to the First Team, along with Forest Park's Nick Stachowicz, North Central's Pryor Labonte and Nehring, along with Munising's Brody Johns.
Ontonagon senior linebacker Ryan Holmstrom was named to the Second Team Defense. Joining him was Forest Park's Noah Starr and Eli Brzoznowski, Ishpeming's Dax Kakkuri and Kian Gauthier, Munising's Peterson and Blake Tyner, and Lapine.
North Central's kicker Lucas Garcia-Valencia and return specialist, Malone, were both honored alongside Lapine as the punter for the Special Teams.
Lakes freshman Alfred Milkey and Gladiators senior Jacob Hurst were both given honorable mention.