West Gippsland league: Andrew Soumilas to five in best-and-fairest win
INVERLOCH-KONGWAK’S Andrew Soumilas has won his fifth league best-and-fairest.
INVERLOCH-KONGWAK’S Andrew Soumilas has won his fifth league best and fairest.
The 34-year-old won the first West Gippsland Football Netball Competition senior best-and-fairest on Monday night with 31 votes.
Runner-up Brendan Kimber, from Phillip Island, who has won Alberton and Ellinbank and District league best-and-fairests in his career, polled 20 votes.
Kilcunda-Bass co-coach and former Collingwood player Brent Macaffer finished third with 19 votes.
Soumilas polled best-on-ground votes in 10 matches.
This is his fourth league medal, having won the Gippsland League best-and-fairest in 2005 and 2011, and the Ellinbank and District league medal in 2013. He also won a league best-and-fairest while playing with Garfield in 2004.
This weekend Inverloch-Kongwak the team will take on Cora Lynn in the grand final.
In other leagues, Swifts playing coach Scott Carey won the Horsham and District league best and fairest, the Dellar Medal.
Carisbrook coach Jackson Bowen won the Maryborough Castlemaine District’s Berry Powell Medal on Monday.
Bowen dislocated his shoulder during Carisbrook’s preliminary final win on Sunday.
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