GOLDEN Square all-rounder Scott Johnson has become just the fifth player in the award’s history to win the Bendigo District Cricket Association Cricketer of the Year twice.Johnson polled 17 votes at The Bendigo Club last night to win the Bill Stephenson Trophy where in a tight count, the top-six were separated by just six votes.Kangaroo Flat’s Adam Burns - himself a former winner - finished one vote behind Johnson in second position with 16, but the Roos’ skipper was the winner of the Leon Grose Trophy as the Champion Player with 912 points.Filling third position was Johnson’s teammate, Phil Hetherington, who polled 15 votes.Johnson, 33, previously won the Cricketer of the Year in 2000-01 when he tied with Kangaroo Flat’s Tony Taig.He joins Eaglehawk pair Max Taylor (1979, 1982) and Wayne Walsh (1987, 1991), and Strathdale-Maristians’ duo Barry Tippett (1982, 1984) and Craig Howard (2008, 2009) as the only dual winners since the award’s inception in 1976.Johnson was integral in Golden Square finishing on top of the ladder at the end of the home and away season as he played a key role with both bat and ball.Opening the batting, the left-hander compiled 477 runs at an average of 53.0, which included four scores over 50 and a top score of 89, made against Huntly-North Bendigo in the final round.With the ball, he was Square’s leading wicket-taker as he took 23 with his spin at an average of 15.6.Among Johnson’s 23 wickets was a haul of 6-44 off 20 overs against Bendigo United in round eight, which included a hat-trick.Johnson polled votes in eight of 14 games, including the maximum three in the last round against Huntly-North Bendigo to clinch victory.As well as winning the BDCA Player of the Year, Johnson was also the winner of The Advertiser-Bicknell’s Player of the Year Award for his stellar season.In the second XI, 45-year-old Kangaroo Flat batsman Steve Newlan won the Cricketer of the Year with 14 votes, while in the third XI, Bendigo United all-rounder Scott Macumber polled 12 votes to win.