By JARROD POTTER
AWARDING the league’s finest players the final pieces of silverware after another superb junior football season, Tuesday’s presentation night honoured the best of the South East Juniors’ up-and-coming football talent.
Cranbourne’s gun Youth Girls midfielder Katelyn Cox ran away with the Youth Girls best and fairest, taking the prize on 25 votes ahead of Officer’s Taylah O’Hagan (21) and Beaconsfield premiership player and best on ground medallist Brooke Struylaart (20).
While it couldn’t pick up the flag this year, Endeavour Hills’ Premier 1 side excelled at the vote count with the quinellla – Frankie Mitropolous and Ali Zijai finishing one-two.
Parkmore’s Perry Lewis-Smith (27) capped off his sensational week by earning the third piece of silverware in three days – premiership, best on ground medal and finally the league best and fairest – as he tied for the title with Fountain Gate’s Brodie Worland.
He wasn’t the only one to achieve this astonishing feat as Berwick Springs’ Jarryd Barker (Under-14 Division 1) and Amber Clarke (Under-11 White) also piled on the awards this week.
Also one to pick up the triple-award was a Beaconsfield footballer who added a fourth and even more special award to the trophy case – the Lindsay Patching Medal.
Beaconsfield’s under-12 powerhouse Cadyn Lane won the Patching Medal for earning the most votes in the association to add to his Division 2 best on ground medal, premiership medallion and best and fairest.
Timbarra under 14 Connor Ollson (30) and Endeavour Hills under-12 Jonathan Tiralosi (30) also polled exceptionally at the Tuesday night count.
It capped off the 53rd season in South East Juniors (formerly Dandenong District Junior Football League) history as the league continues to grow from its Dandenong heartlands all the way through to new territory in West Gippsland.
SEJ BEST AND FAIREST RESULTS
YOUTH GIRLS: Katelyn Cox 25 (Cranbourne), Taylah O’Hagan 21 (Officer), Brooke Struylaart 20 (Beaconsfield).
PREMIER 1: Frankie Mitropoulos 23 (Endeavour Hills), Ali Zijai 15 (Endeavour Hills), Dylan Morris 12 (Berwick).
PREMIER 2: Perry Lewis-Smith 27 (Parkmore), Brodie Worland 27 (Fountain Gate), Callum Porter 23 (Officer).
PREMIER 3: Joshua Martin 20 (Officer), Patrick Tatt 19 (Narre Warren), Bradley Barker 14 (Berwick Springs).
U15 D1: Heath Briggs 16 (Narre Warren), Riley Boland 14 (Beaconsfield), Corey Ellison 12 (Berwick), Jed Smith 12 (Berwick).
U15 D2: William Saunders 16 (Tooradin-Dalmore), Luke Scott 15 (Timbarra), Kaelum D’Arcy-Gunn 15 (Endeavour Hills).
U15 D3: Sidhaanth D’Cruz 15 (Narre South Lions), Bradley O’Brien 12 (Narre North Foxes), Myles Currie 12 (Lyndhurst).
U14 D1: Jarryd Barker 28 (Berwick Springs), Matthew Wilson 18 (Beaconsfield), Cody Weightman 18 (Beaconsfield).
U14 D2: Joshua Leeson 19 (Officer), Christopher Raso 18 (Narre South), George Skaliaris 15 (Narre North).
U14 D3: Connor Olsson 30 (Timbarra), Riley Smith 25 (Hampton Park), Ian Stewart 18 (Tooradin-Dalmore).
U13 D1: Brock Coleclough 24 (Narre Warren), Charlie Boldt 13 (Berwick), Mason Heeger 13 (Cranbourne).
U13 D2: Mitchell Porter 20 (Berwick Springs), David Lega Frost 17 (Parkmore), Noah Tabak 15 (Berwick).
U13 D3: Jack Brown 22 (North Dandenong), Nathan Kannemeyer 17 (Pakenham), Bailey Baumann 17 (Fountain Gate).
U12 D1: Caleb Van Oostveen 29 (Pakenham), Dan Taylor 16 (Berwick), Paddy Cross 14 (Beaconsfield), Brodie Fowkes 14 (Berwick Springs).
U12 D2: Caydn Lane 33 (Beaconsfield), Declan Curran 29 (Beaconsfield), Kai Suparta 13 (Berwick Springs).
U12 D3: Jonathon Tiralosi 30 (Endeavour Hills), Kaiden Jude 17 (Cranbourne), Jamie Hill 17 (Cora Lynn), Jaxon Williams 17 (Tooradin-Dalmore).
U11 RED: Luke Bailey 16 (Berwick), Ryan Semmel 12 (Cranbourne), Tyler Finn 9 (Narre South).
U11 BLUE: Mitchell Szybkowski 26 (Beaconsfield), Georgia Malkoun 20 (Narre North), Xavier Shinners 15 (Narre Warren).
U11 WHITE: Amber Clarke 17 (Narre North), Patrick Sinnema 15 (Hampton Park), Aaron Findlay 13 (Endeavour Hills).
U11 BLACK: Brendan Alievski 17 (North Dandenong), Harrison Best 17 (Berwick), Austin Cormack 14 (Officer).
