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22 August, 2024
Double Max: Beattie's weekend of bests
By CHRIS EARL MAX Beattie stamped himself as one of North Central football’s top junior players at the weekend. The pacy midfielder took out the league’s Jeff Gould under 17 best and fairest trophy in Saturday’s vote count. And on Sunday he...
By CHRIS EARL
MAX Beattie stamped himself as one of North Central football’s top junior players at the weekend.
The pacy midfielder took out the league’s Jeff Gould under 17 best and fairest trophy in Saturday’s vote count. And on Sunday he followed up with the Boort club’s junior award.
Beattie, a Year 11 student at Boort District School, polled best on ground in the Pies’ two clashes with Nullawil and Birchip Watchem. He also picked up three votes when the top-of-the-ladder Pies defeated Donald in June.
Beattie wasn’t in the junior side for the return clash against the Royals this month. He had been elevated to the seniors and was part of the Boort team that thumped the premiership contenders by 71 points.
“Certainly didn’t expect to jointly win the league best and fairest,” said Beattie on Sunday.
He had tipped Judd Durie (Sea Lake Nandaly and Nullawil’s Tiger Vearing for the medal.
Instead it was Beattie and and Charlton’s Seb Zagame who finished the count with 21 votes, two clear of Vearing and Sea Lake Nandaly’s Cruz O’Sullivan.
“We’ve a good team of youngsters at Boort ... a lot of talent and that’s testament to our coach Chris Hatcher. He drives us,” said Beattie
“I thought it had been a good season. I’ve kicked a few more goals and have had plenty of passes from teammates.”
Beattie has played all his football with Boort. “We’re having some good junior years and we’re all good and close mates. It helps being in a great community where everyone is so supportive of the juniors,“ Beattie said. Two-time runner-up Wade Donnan (Sea Lake Nandaly) was the breakaway winner of the senior competition’s Feeny Medal.
Donnan polled 25 votes, five ahead of Donald ruckman Andrew Brown.
Boort’s sizzling 2024 recruit Jhye Baddeley-Kelly and Hamish Hosking (Birchip Watchem) were equal third with 18 votes. Baddeley-kelly on Sunday won the Pies top award.
Tom Campbell was the best of Wedderburn players in the Feeny, finishing with 10 votes as did Boort’s Tom Potter who polled well in early rounds. The 2021 medallist and Wedderburn ruckman Jordan Hargreaves finished the count on nine votes.
Sea Lake Nandaly’s Connor Michael took out the James and Jenny Goldsmith Trophy for reserves best and fairest with 18, three ahead of Boort’s Harry Weaver who won the club best in Sunday’s count.
Chris O’Rourke (Boort), Deek Roberts (Charlton) and Eddie Landwehr (Donald) were equal third on 12.