Panmure midcourter Isabella Rea polled the second-highest tally in Warrnambool and District league history to win the 13 and under netball best and fairest award.
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Isabella, 12, claimed the top award with a whopping 44 votes, despite the Bulldogs finishing eighth on the ladder with eight wins and two draws from their 18 matches.
Only East Warrnambool’s Jodie Hayes, who won the 15 and under award in 2009 with 49 votes, has enjoyed anywhere near the kind of individual success that Isabella has this season.
Only two other players have polled more than 40 votes in a season.
Old Collegians’ Lyn Bull won B grade, the second-tier competition, with 41 in 2001 and Dennington’s Kristie Bolden won the 15 and under grade with 41 in 2006.
Isabella, an Our Lady Help of Christians Primary School pupil who plays at centre, rated her season “pretty good”.
She said she enjoyed netball “because you get to play with your friends” and one day hoped to represent Melbourne Vixens.
South Rovers’ Lilly King was runner-up with 39 votes, a tally which would have won her the award most years, with Nirranda’s Hannah Loveday third on 34 votes.