The 2010 Winter Season of the South East Coast Basketball League competitions produced some brilliant individual performances on the pine at the Millicent and Mount Gambier stadiums.

The close voting in the prestigious Most Valuable Player Awards reflects the overall high standard of both the Men’s and Women’s competitions.

The deserved winners for the winter season are Kate Seebohm, on court general for Millicent Cats and Simon Berkefeld, the Bulldogs dynamo.

Seebohm has now won three SECBL season MVPs and has been runner-up three times. She also won the Sally-Jane Allen/Trisha Flett Memorial award twice, all since Winter 2005.

She was consistency personified in her voting this season, polling votes in 13 of the 14 games played. Cats received a forfeit in Round 14.

In the first five weeks she polled two first, two second and one third preference, giving a total of 11. She then had a stellar period in the second five weeks when she compiled four best on courts for a total of 23. She scored 8 in the last five to finish with a total of 31.

Sara Chapple has also had a standout season. She has been the key to Bulldogs’ wins and finished the season strongly for a total of 27 votes. Catherine Larkin had a dominant start to the season and recorded 18 votes by round 7. She finished with a creditable 20.

State junior Georgia Green turned in some impressive performances late in the season, gaining four first preferences and a second in the last five weeks of the season. These efforts saw her finish fourth with a total of 18. This result saw her awarded the Sally-Jane Allen/ Trisha Flett Memorial Trophy for the junior scoring most MVP votes.

Simon Berkefeld is clearly the most decorated player of the South East Coast Basketball League. In the eleven seasons of the SECBL Berkefeld has won a remarkable seven Season MVP awards and been runner-up three times. The only season in which he did not feature was the first, winter 2005, when Shannon Seebohm of Cats took out the award.

Berkefeld polled votes in eleven of the twelve games Bulldogs played for the season and finished with a tally of 25.

Panthers’ main scorer Kyle Howe-Tipene gained 17 votes until his departure for the USA late in July.

Jamie Croker of Cougars was next with 16, followed by Peter Loring of Wizards on 14, then Tyson Kettle and Dallas Jeffree both on 12.

State junior, Joseph Walker of Cats, won the Bill Cook Memorial Award for the junior polling most MVP votes.