Ben Truin from Southside is the winner of the 2010 TDJFL Under 16 Best & Fairest Award. Ben has had a terrific season, polling in 9 games and his team finishing second on the ladder at the end of the Home and Away matches. Ty White from City Juniors finished second on 17 votes, and his team mate, Jack Rogan finished thrid on 16 votes.
The first eight rounds of the count had a number of players from all the teams with votes demonstrating the eveness of the competition. Ben held a 3 vote lead at the completion of Round 8, with the Leaderboard being: 1. Ben Truin of Southside on 13 votes, 2. Ty White of City Juniors on 10 votes, then in 3rd position we had Dylan Glasson of Glengarry, Jacob Tennant of Southside, Jordan Aucote of TEDAS and Leigh Jones of Combined Saints, all on 9 Votes.
In the eyes of the Umpires, Ben obviously has a very good season of footy for his team Southside, as he polled in 3 games in rounds 9 to 12 to have the award wrapped up and lead by 7 votes. The Leaderboard at the completion of the Round 12 games was 1. Ben Truin with 21 Votes, 2. Ty White City Juniors 14 votes, 3. Jack Rogan of City Juniors on 14 votes, 4. Ashden Downe of West End on 13 votes, and 5. Corey Nickells of TEDAS on 12 votes.
Just for good measure and to make sure, Ben polled 2 votes in the last round to finish with 23 Votes, 6 clear of second place in a superb effort.
The Final Leaderboard was as follows: 1. Ben Truin of Southside on 23 Votes, 2. Ty White of City Juniors on 17 Votes, 3. Jack Rogan of City Juniors on 16 Votes, 4. Ashden Downe of West End on 13 Votes, 5. Corey Nickels of TEDAS and Stuart Goddard from Southside, both on 13 Votes.
Leading vote getters for each club were:
Pax Hill - N. Ware 7, S. Morritt 4, A. Scullin 3, P. Jasper 3, S. Moran 1, R. Conduit 8
Glengarry - D. Glasson 9, A. Bermingham 12, D. Van Dyke 5, J. Both 2, B. Mathers 2, B. Osborne 4
TEDAS - J. Aucote 11, C. Nickels 13, R. Dunn 3, R. Martin 8, L. Brunt 2, J. McGrath 2, S. Carroll 1, J. Gray 1, J. Merrin-Noda 2
West End - A. Downe 13, J. Trew 7, J. Rohde 4, L. Grant 5, Z. Anderson 3, D. Fromberg 4, C. Cook 6, R. Spector 7, J. Scott 6, M. Nelson 3, B. McDonald 5, M. Marino 1
Southside - B. Truin 23, J. Tennant 9, S. Goddard 13, L. Pollard 5, N. O'Connor 2, L. McCallum 2, A. Kangelaris 1, D. Tripodi 1
Combined Saints - L. Jones 10, L. Lewis 5, L. Hollingsworth 3, M. Caulfield 2, S. Stoddart 1, B. Ambler 4, R. Ward 1, L. Price 3, M. Alexander 1, J. Sartori 2
Churchill - H. Lowrie 11, R. Croft 4, G. Iorangi 2, J. Hawkins 1, J. Donovan 5, M. King 2, M. Bradford 1
City Juniors - T. White 17, J. Rogan 16, J. Green 3, J. Gilroy 4, J. Heard 1, L. De Jonge 2, D. Higginbottom 3, N. Robinson 2.
Last Modified on 22/08/2010 12:29