Clubs share in success

Last year it was Swifts basking in the glow of a junior best and fairest double – this year it was Kalkee and Taylors Lake.

The Kees celebrated a double-up at Horsham District Football Netball League’s junior best and fairest vote count on Monday night, claiming the 17-and-under netball award and a share of the under-17 football trophy.

Kalkee’s Jordan Motton tied for the football award with Harrow-balmoral’s Tyler Hateley on 24 votes, the pair winning by four votes from Taylors Lake’s Matthew White, with Swifts’ Bourke Nicholls in third place with 18 votes.

In the netball it was Mia Mcgrath who took out top honours, polling six best-oncourt efforts from her first eight games to record a total of 28 votes, four ahead of fast-finishing Harrow-balmoral player Olivia Muldoon and five votes from third

place getter Ella Slorach of Taylors Lake. The Lakers also had plenty of reason to celebrate results of the 15-and-under netball and under-14 football counts.

Laker Kayla Kelm garnered 32 votes to win easily from Laharum’s Rylee Hateley, 26, and Kalkee’s Samantha Gebert, 25, in the netball.

The under-14 football count featured staggering totals, with Taylors Lake’s Riley Hall earning 13 best-on-ground nods from the umpires to finish with a total of 43 votes.

Remarkably it was barely enough, with Swifts’ Hamish Smith also earning three votes in 13 games to finish one vote back on 42.

Kalkee’s William Drummond rounded out the top three with 38.

Jeparit-rainbow 13-and-under netballer Shekinah Hurlstone was rewarded for her great year with 36 votes to win her age group’s best-and-fairest award.

Hurlstone pipped Pimpinio’s Janae Slorach by only two votes, with Natimuk United’s Olivia Sudholz finishing third with 28.

• Pictured clockwise from above left, under-17 footballers Tyler Hateley, Harrow-balmoral, and Jordan Motton, Kalkee, equal first, and Bourke Nicholls, Swifts, third; 17-and-under netballers Mia McGrath, Kalkee, first, Olivia Muldoon, Harrow-balmoral, second, and Ella Slorach, Taylors Lake, third; 15-and-under netballers Kayla Kelm, Taylors Lake, first, Rylee Hateley, Laharum, second, and Samantha Gebert, Kalkee, third; under-14 footballers Riley Hall, Taylors Lake, first, Hamish Smith, Swifts, second, and William Drummond, Kalkee, third; and 13-and-under netballers Shekinah Hurlstone, Jeparit-rainbow, first, Janae Slorach, Piminio, second, and Olivia Sudholz, Natimuk, third. Pictures: PAUL CARRACHER