The 2014 AFL Darling Downs Division 2 men's best and fairest is a tie. Joint winners were declared for the 2014 Marj Shaw Medal with South Burnett co-captain Adam Bowater and Dalby Swan Mike Gaur sharing the highest individual accolade available to the competition.
Half-way leader Cameron Percival from Chinchilla was the run away leader with 16-votes after 9 rounds of the season.
However, Percival tragically broke his ankle in Round 10 and finished the count on 16 votes and in an impressive 4th position, only behind eventual winners Gaur and Bowater by 3 votes.
With 118 games and 172 goals, over a career stretching 18years Bowater was the more experienced statistically, however Gaur in just his fourth season and 49 games, proved that no matter how long you have played the game you can be valuable.
Leaderboard after 9 rounds
Cameron Percival (Chinchilla) 16 votes
Adam Bowater (South Burnett) 11 votes
Ty Snow (South Burnett) 9 votes
Mike Gaur (Dalby) 6 votes
Scott Sowerby (University) 5 votes
Max Greene-Galloway (Warwick) 5 votes
Gaur was the biggest mover in the second half of the season picking up an incredible 13 votes to claim the Marj Shaw Medal. Bowater continued his very consistency season picking up a further 8 votes to add to his tally of 11 from the first half.
Saints young-gun Ty Snow also had an impressive season and finished as the Marj Shaw Medal runner-up on 17 votes.
Chinchilla SUNS representative player and key forward Kristian Muir took home the Division 2 Leading goal-kicker trophy, after a stellar season in front of the big sticks booting 54 majors.
Final Leaderboard
Adam Bowater (South Burnett) 19 votes
Mike Gaur (Dalby) 19 votes
Ty Snow (South Burnett) 17 votes
Cameron Percival (Chinchilla) 16 votes
Mark Davies (Highfields) 13 votes
Isaac Parker (University) 10 votes
Last Modified on 26/09/2014 09:04
