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7 area men to be coaches

ESCANABA — Seven Delta County area coaches will be on the sidelines June 24 at the 10th anniversary of the U.P. All-Star football game in the Marquette Superior Dome.

Former Manistique High School coach Todd Kangas will be on the Red Team staff with two of his sons, Pickford assistant coach Garde Kangas, and former Gladstone coach Cody Kangas. Joining them will be Sam Eggleston of Superior Central and Jim Belec of Carney-Nadeau.

Bark River-Harris head coach Al Stenberg and Tom Tereshinski of Manistique will be among the coaches on the Black Team.

The teams will be decided in a first-ever draft March 18, a process which could put high school teammates on opposite teams.

The players will gather in Marquette June 19 for the start of practice and several other engagements, such as a skill challenge June 21, a visit to Bay Cliff Health Camp June 22 and a banquet June 23 with a guest speaker who will be announced later. Players will receive all-star rings at the banquet.

The Carney-Nadeau and Gwinn football programs, based on a lottery drawing, will receive some of the game’s proceeds. Proceeds will also go Beacon House and the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame. All-Star Game equipment, including practice jersies and footballs, will be donated to the St. Ignace, Kingsford, Calumet and Pickford football programs.

Nineteen area players are among the participants. They include:

Jace Briggs, Zeke Oswald and Iver Stenberg of Bark River-Harris, Jordan Belec of Carney-Nadea, Dalton Deneau, Chris LeMire and Jack Lynch of Escanaba, Brandon Waldrop of Gladstone, Jake Arnold of Manistique, Kody Beauchaine and AJ Triplett of Superior Central, Mason Berglund and Austin Wicklund of Rapid River, and Taylor Belongia, Tyler Bentley, Bobby Kleiman, Ryan Plunger, Tanner Poupore and Jason Whitens of two-time eight-player state champion North Central.

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