Three Lights named Frontier All-Conference

The Frontier Conference men’s basketball season came to an end with the Rocky Mountain College Battlin’ Bears beating the Westminster Griffins the championship game Monday night in Billings, and with that game came the league’s postseason awards.

Monday night, the Frontier announced its 2013-14 All-Conference Team, as well as its awards for the season, and three Montana State University-Northern Lights were honored.

Northern junior Corbin Pearson was a unanimous First-Team All-Conference selection. In his junior season, Pearson averaged 13 points and seven rebounds for the Lights, but in league play, he averaged 17 points and eight boards per game. Pearson earned Honorable Mention honors last season. Senior Alfie Miller and Roshawn West were also tabbed. Miller earned Honorable Mention honors for the second straight season. This winter, he led the Lights in scoring at 14 points per game was the Frontier’s top 3-point shooter. He made 48 percent of the three’s he took this season. West earned Second-Team honors a year ago, and was named Honorable Mention this season. West averaged nine points and four assists per game for the Lights,

The rest of the First Team included UGF’s Marcel Towns, Westminster’s Tallon Robertson and RMC’s Joel Barndt, Jeremy Nicholas and Tyree Anderson. Towns, Brandt and Nicholas were All-Conference selections for the second straight season. Rocky, Northern, Montana Tech, Lewis-Clark State and Carroll College all had three All-Conference selections, while Great Falls, UM-Western and Westminster had two, and Dickinson State had one.

Towns was named Frontier Player of the Year for the second year in a row. He led the league in scoring at 22 points per game, and steals at nearly four per night. Anderson, a transfer from Las Vegas, was named Newcomer of the Year, while Carroll’s Zach Taylor earned Freshman of the Year honors. Robertson was named the league’s Defensive MVP, and Rocky head man Bill Dreikosin was named Coach of the Year.

Note: See Thursday's Havre Daily News for the 2013-14 Frontier Women's All-Conference Team, as well as news about the Lights and Skylights' selcetions to the NAIA national tournament.

2014 Men's Frontier All-Conference

First Team

Corbin Pearson, MSU-Northern, 6-6, Jr.; Tyree Anderson, Rocky Mountain College, 6-3, Jr.; Joel Barndt, Rocky Mountain College, 6-9, Sr.; Jeremy Nicholas, Rocky Mountain College, 6-6, Sr.; Marcel Towns, Great Falls, 6-2, Sr.; Tallon Robertson, Westminster, 6-6, Sr.

Second Team

E.J. Farris, LC State, 6-2, Sr.; Bryan Bock, Montana Tech, 6-3, Sr.; Maazin Butler, UM-Western, 5-11, Sr.; Jake Owsley, UM-Western, 6-8, Sr.; Blake Skidmore, Westminster, 6-0, Sr.

Honorable Mention

Alfie Miller, MSU-Northern, 6-0, Sr.; Roshawn West, MSU-Northern, 6-1, Sr.; Chris McCgrath, Carroll, 6-2, Sr.; Dennis Mikelonis, Carroll, 6-6, Sr.; Zach Taylor, Carroll, 5-11, Fr.; Tevin Russell, Dickinson State, 6-4, Sr.; Brady Bagby, LC State, 6-3, Jr.,; Jacob Champoux, LC State, 6-0, Jr.; Adam Greger, Montana Tech, 6-6, Jr.; Antonio Snow, Montana Tech, 6-2, Jr.; T.J. Harris, Great Falls, 5-11, Jr.