By Luke Voogt
Sean O’Neil has dominated the awards for GCA’s top league after scoring his fifth ton in 2020/2021 last Saturday to help East Belmont upset Lara and reach the grand final.
O’Neil won the Jack Sing Medal for cricketer of the year, as voted by the umpires, and the champion player award, based on overall statistics.
He also took out the division one firsts batting average scoring 831 runs at 69.25.
O’Neil is set to face Tom Mathieson, who topped the division’s bowling averages, in the grand final tomorrow.
The North Geelong paceman took 35 wickets at just 12.46 apiece.
In division two firsts Alexander Thomson all-rounder James Syddall won the Barry McMahon Medal after finishing fourth in the division for wickets with 28 and seventh for runs with 476.
Bell Park all-rounder Shane Lymer won division two’s champion player after coming third in the batting and 15th in wickets taken.
Marshall’s Corey Walter topped the batting averages with 645 runs at 46.79 and Torquay’s Terry Hill had the best bowling average with 28 wickets at 13 runs apiece.
In division three the umpires voted Corio bowling all-rounder Dylan Shelley best and fairest for the Jan Nowicki Medal.
Shelley came fourth in the bowling averages and 26th in the batting.
Waurn Ponds-Deakin’s Balarammahanti Abhishek, who came fourth in wickets taken and fifth in the batting averages, won the division’s champion player.
Thomson’s Jayden Hicks topped the batting averages with 515 runs at 57.22 while Geelong West’s Sam Kelly took 37 wickets at 12.19 to win the bowling averages.
In the Barwon Women’s Cricket Competition Barrabool batting all-rounder Annie Maloney won the Susan Heussi Medal for best and fairest.
Maloney averaged 59.2 with the bat (second) and ranked 12th in the bowling averages.
Manifold Heights’ Bree Gorman won champion player and took out the bowling award with 18 wickets at 7.11.
Her relative Brooke Gorman won the batting award with 141 runs at an average of 70.5.
The GCA men’s grand finals are set to be played tomorrow with a reserve day on Sunday in the event of rain.
