A PAIR of 2021 recruits have topped Maryborough Football Netball Club's senior football and A-grade netball best and fairest awards.
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Bailey Edwards, who returned to the Magpies this season after time away in Ballarat, polled 64 votes to be a runaway winner of the Geoff Macilwain Medal as the senior football best and fairest.
He finished 36 votes clear of Jayden Hooper, the club's 2019 best and fairest winner, with Matthew Bilton a further three votes away in third.
Edwards has headed north to play in the Northern Territory Football League with Nightcliff Tigers over the summer, but will rejoin the Magpies in time for the start of the 2022 BFNL season.
In A-grade netball, Chrissy James capped a stellar first season with the Magpies by claiming the Cassidy-Chadwick Medal as best and fairest.
James, who joined the Magpies from Maryborough Castlemaine District league club Carisbrook, polled 26 votes to finish 11 votes clear of midcourter Ella Tranter, with Keely Hare third on 12 votes.
It was Hare's third consecutive top-three finish in the best and fairest award after sharing the best and fairest with the Magpies' 2021 season coach Alicia Cassidy in 2018 and winning it outright in 2019.
The A-grade netball best and fairest has been renamed the Cassidy-Chadwick Medal in honour of Magpies legends and BFNL life members Alicia Cassidy and Alisha Chadwick.
Chadwick played 353 games for the Magpies and was the first netballer to receive a BFNL Life membership in 2014 for games played.
A brilliant career was highlighted by a Betty Thompson Medal win in 2010 and seven Maryborough A-grade best and fairest award wins.
Cassidy, the league's all-time games record holder, played 378 games for the Magpies before her retirement at the end of 2019.
A seven-time club best and fairest winner, she won the Betty Thompson Medal in 2005 and was awarded BFNL life membership in 2015.
Both Chadwick and Cassidy were named in the BFNL's netball team of the decade for 2010-19.
Award winners
Senior football best and fairest - Geoff Macilwain Medal: Bailey Edwards (64 votes); Jayden Hooper (28); Matthew Bilton (25).
A grade netball best and fairest - Cassidy-Chadwick Medal: Chrissy James (26 votes); Ella Tranter (15); Keely Hare (12).
Reserves football best and fairest: Liam Maffescioni.
B-grade netball best and fairest: Briella Gibbs.
B-reserve netball best and fairest: Stella Roche.
17-and-under netball best and fairest: Charlotte Cain.
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