Hutchings and Hull win B&F double for Byron
Byron Bay Magpies' midfielder Lilli Hutchings won the AFL North Coast's Women's Best & Fairest award.
THE AFL North Coast’s Senior Best & Fairest counts has seen Byron Bay Magpies players claim the highest individual accolade in both the men’s and women’s competitions.
Midfielder Lilli Hutchings earned two votes in the final Home & Away round of the season to win the Women’s award by just one vote ahead of two-time winner Gina Carrillo from Northern Beaches and Port Macquarie’s Ellie Ryan.
The Brian Saville Medal for the best player in the men’s competition for 2023 was won by fellow Byron player Blayne Hull.
Hull polled 23 votes for the season to finish six votes ahead of runner-up Jai Langenberg from Sawtell/Toormina.
The leading pair were well ahead of the other players on the Brian Saville Medal leaderboard.
>>> SCROLL DOWN for the final leaderboards in all Senior Best & Fairest counts.
After finishing runner-up in the Paul Sheldon Medal count last year, Nambucca Valley’s Alec Baldwin went one better in 2023 to win the prize for being the best player of the season in the Reserves.
Baldwin finished ahead of teammate Aaron Clarke and Port Macquarie’s Brendan Badenoch.
Having won the Best & Fairest award in the Under 17s in 2022, Jai Bowd backed up to win the Under 18s Best & Fairest this year.
The Sawtell/Toormina player finished one vote ahead of Oscar McKenzie from the Coffs Breakers and Chad Anderson from the Saints.
BEST & FAIREST LEADERBOARDS
BRIAN SAVILLE MEDAL
23 – Blayne Hull (Byron Bay Magpies)
17 – Jai Langenberg (Sawtell/Toormina)
12 – Luke Hodoniczky (Port Macquarie)
10 – Blake Noll (Grafton), Aidan Wallace (Coffs Breakers)
9 – Callum O’Loughlin (Grafton), Bill Todd (Port Macquarie)
8 – Tom Dickson (Port Macquarie), Will Kelly (Port Macquarie), Luke Valdes (Grafton)
WOMEN’S BEST & FAIREST
20 – Lilli Hutchings (Byron Bay Magpies)
19 – Gina Cardillo (Northern Beaches), Ellie Ryan (Port Macquarie)
14 – Phoebe Baptiste (Coffs Breakers)
12 – Rebekah Atkinson (Northern Beaches), Amaia Wain (Sawtell/Toormina)
11 – Elli Aitken (Port Macquarie), Zoe Clarke (Sawtell/Toormina), Shania King (Sawtell/Toormina)
10 – Kira Duroux (Northern Beaches)
9 – Asha Lloyd (Sawtell/Toormina)
8 – Alana Hanson (Northern Beaches)
PAUL SHELDON MEDAL
19 – Alec Baldwin (Nambucca Valley)
11 – Brendan Badenoch (Port Macquarie), Aaron Clarke (Nambucca Valley)
8 – Adam Broderick (Port Macquarie)
7 – Brendan Leslie (Grafton)
6 – Chris Curthoys (Grafton), Brad Giri (Coffs Breakers), Lachlan Reid Coffs Breakers)
5 – Jason Delamont (Coffs Breakers), Rhys Jones (Coffs Breakers)
UNDER 18s BEST & FAIREST
10 – Jai Bowd (Sawtell/Toormina)
9 – Chad Anderson (Sawtell/Toormina), Oscar McKenzie (Coffs Breakers)
8 – Charlie Martin (Sawtell/Toormina)
6 – Beau Guthrie (Coffs Breakers)
5 – Riley Morrissey (Coffs Breakers)
3 – Lachlan Jones (Port Macquarie), Will Kelly (Port Macquarie)
