IT was surprising that Nic Broes didn't hire a truck to take home his collection of prizes from Bathurst District Cricket Association's awards night on Friday.
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Not only did Broes take home the coveted BDCA Cricketer of the Year prize, he was first grade's leading bowler (aggregate and average) and batsman (aggregate) during a premiership season for his club St Pat's Old Boys.
That's on top of his grand final Player of the Match (2-8 and 61 not out), John Tracey Memorial Shield and Umpires Best & Fairest accolades.
Broes finished with 525 regular season runs at an average of 40.38 and claimed 29 wickets at 9.31.
Outgoing BDCA president Campbell Graham said Broes' season is certainly one for the history books.
"He probably missed out last year on a couple of those major awards but he's stepped up even further this year and taken his game to a new level," he said.
"It's rewarding to see a younger player take out the major awards."
The awards night was a great showing for Bathurst's junior ranks.
All four Player of the Match winners from grand finals - Broes, Bailey Webber (second grade), Blake Kreuzberger (President's Cup) and Mark Sheather (third grade) - are under 21s and have performed exceptionally well at representative level through the season.
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Kreuzberger was the leading President's Cup batsman for the season with 346 runs at an average of 57.67.
"I was down at the the third grade grand final and to watch an under 12s representative player take 5-16 against adults is fantastic," Graham said.
"It shows that the structure Bathurst cricket has in place with bringing the younger players through is helping us build towards bigger and better things."
Imran Qureshi was named best representative player for the season after his three successive half centuries against Orange.
He capped off that run with an unbeaten 88 in the Mitch Cricket Council President's Cup grand final.
Connor Slattery won the captain's award in the representative ranks.
He finished with a batting average of 34.3 across all formats.
"Imran's really stepped up when called upon," Graham said.
"That was particularly the case against Orange. We all know he's a quality player but this year he's really shown everyone that."
Broes, Matt Egberts (second grade), Charlie Hutchings (President's Cup) and Cameron White (third grade) were named grade champions.
White dominated the competition to finish with more runs and wickets than any other player across all grades.
It was a good season for the Qureshi brothers with Jameel winning the first grade average prize (52.75).
Umpire Graeme Glazebrook was the Kirsty Masters Memorial winner.
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