The Under 10 Best & Fairest Award was won by Lachy Heard from TEDAS and Jai Slaby of West End for the 2010 Season on 24 Votes.
It was a very close count all the way through, with no player dominating the Umpire's votes on a consistent basis, and a variety of players from all sides polling votes throughout the count.
At the completion of Round 8, the Leaderboard was Nick Lowden C/Saints, Lachy Heard TEDAS & Jai Slaby West End all on 15 votes, Nathan Harrup City Juniors and Liam Willaton Southside both on 9 votes.
In rounds 9-12, Lachy Heard opened up a small lead of 2 votes over jai and 3 over Nick, with all others out of contention. Lachy lead with 23 votes, Jai 21, Nick 20, Logan Van Berkel on 16 from TEDAS and Tye Hourigan from West End on 15.
Round 13 saw Jai poll 1 vote in the game with City Juniors, with Tye picking up the 3 votes, while Nick did not poll a vote in his game against Pax Hill, and lachy picked up 1 vote to maintain his 2 vote lead with one round to go. With the votes only being read out, the scene was set, with only two players with a chance of winning with Nick now being 4 votes behind Lachy.
It all came down to the last card, which just happened to be West End v TEDAS. One vote Linus Rodda West End, 2 votes Jai Slaby West End, 3 votes Tye Hourigan West End. The room was not sure at first, until someone yelled out it was a draw, and they were right! Both Lachy and Jai finished on 24 Votes. Lachy polled votes in 11 games with 4 BOGs, while Jai polled in 12 games and 3 BOGs.
The final Leaderboard looked like:
1. Lachy Heard & Jai Slaby 24 Votes, 2. Nick Lowden C/Saints 22 Votes (9 games & 5 BOGs), 3. Tye Hourigan West End 21 Votes (9 games & 5 BOGs)) and 5. Logan Van Berkel TEDAS on 19 Votes (8 games & 4 BOGs).
Leading vote getters for each team were:
Pax Hill - J. Galea 14, W. Logan 1, J. Leak 7, K. Farley 14, P. Akram 3, J. Scullin 1, N. Twomey 3, E. Foley 1, R. Everett 2, N. Berry 3
Combined Saints - J. Van Iwaarden 6, N. Lowden 22, L. Dalpra 2, T. McMahon 10, B. White 3, B. Grumley 2, F. Shileds 6, J. Ellis 3, A. Baxter 6
Glengarry - D. Busse 4, L. Marshall 7, M. Roberts 2, B. Smith 2, S. Fox 1, C. Morley 3, D. Duncan 1, C. Golding 2 & M. Evans 1
Southside - B. Bott 2, Z. Tripp 1, K. Davison 2, R. Atlee 14, G. Pike 5, T. Eage 7, L. Willaton 14 & A. Wright 2
TEDAS - L. Heard 24, L. Van Berkel 19, J. Gardiner 1, J. Hennessey 3
City Juniors - N. Harrup 14, C. McDonald 3, T. Robin 13, D. Miles 2, N. Graham 2, C. Lipman 1
Cumberland Park - T. Bonnor 10, J. Venturoni 2, M. Davidson 3, N. Rogers 1
Police Boys - J. Darcy 7, J. Jobling 18, L. Johnson 7, J. Palmer 9, H. Bell 10, H. Lesley 5, J. Bishop 3, J. Robson 2, B. Hutton 4, J. Meyer 1
Churchill - R. Lowrie 4, P. Kearns 4, J. Barry 1, K. Pierce 1, M. Smith 3, J. Mason 10, C. Bell 1, J. Gordon 1, B. Sherriff 2
West End - T. Hourigan 21, O. Spiteri 2, J. Slaby 24, T. Webster 4, J. Lambert 2, L. Rodda 1
Last Modified on 22/08/2010 12:30