The Bellingen Brewers Baseball Club have held their end-of-season presentations at the home of their major sponsor, the Bellingen Brewery.
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In keeping with the club’s “team first” tradition, every player receives a personalised award at club presentations. Among the highlights of this year’s awards:
* Cooper Bake-Smith was the club’s Most Valuable Player
* Cam Rutherford was the club’s Rising Star
* J-P van Schie was the club’s Most Improved Player
* Jon Lowe was the club’s Silver Slugger
* Scott Hansen was the club’s pitching Iron Man
David Jeremy, Jeff Wilson and Kris McGrane all were acknowledged for their generous financial assistance to the club.
Joel Northcott, whose EcoTemp Air Conditioning business is a supporting sponsor of the club, encouraged all players and supporters to return next season ready to “dig deep” to make the club better and stronger.
The Coffs Harbour Baseball Association also held its end-of-season presentations on Sunday. Club MVP Cooper Bake-Smith made it a clean sweep, taking out the award for outstanding player in this season’s A Grade competition, as well as Representative Player of the Year. He joins Brewers junior Connor Wear, who was named outstanding player in this year’s junior competition after the Grand Final win by the Brewers two weeks ago.
Also honoured was Cooper’s older brother Hunter, who has been the starting catcher for the Brewers A grade side the past two seasons. Hunter will be heading off to university next year, and was awarded the “Key to Coffs Harbour Baseball” for his outstanding character, skill and contribution to the association.
Aiden Oliver was the junior Grand Final MVP