Rupo snare netball awards

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It was a Rupertswood cleansweep in the Essendon District Football League netball best and fairest award.

Awarded for the first time, Sharks Kaila Saker claimed the medal on 17 votes ahead of teammate Holly Keating on 15 votes.

Showing the dominance of the premiers, Abbey Lambert finished third on 14 votes and Georgia Harris was equal fourth on 10 votes.

Saker said she had a really good bunch of teammates and the support of the club.

On the football field, Sharks captain Brent Swallow was the club’s leading vote getter in the division 1 men’s competition.

Swallow, who has previously won a Riddell District Football League best and fairest finished equal fifth on 15 votes, eight behind co-winners Tyson Young and Shaun McKernan.

Despite his high finish in the best and fairest, Swallow didn’t make the team of the year. Zak Saad and Jackson Cardillo are the two Sharks representatives in that team.

The Sunbury Kangaroos top poll getter was Tie Cuffe, who finished equal 12th on 11 votes.

Kangaroos pair Cooper McPharlane and John Corso made the team of the year.

In the women’s division 1 competition, Sunbury Lions skipper Audrey Follett finished ninth on seven votes, as did Gisborne’s Claire Bourdon.

Both were named in the team of the year. Lions Amy Starzer, Sunbury Kangaroos’ Olivia Cairo, Harmoni Chivell and Lisa Borg, along with Gisborne’s Brianna Woodburn, Charlotte Noonan, Ruby Watts and Shannon McFerran were also named in the team.

Eloise Freeman was the runaway winner in the division 1 women’s best and fairest, finishing on 23 votes. Earlier in the night she claimed the rising star award.

In other awards, Will Jury and Gemma Wright claimed the men’s and women’s premier division top awards.