James Mack was recognised as Gunnedah's Cricketer of the Year when the senior association held their presentation on Saturday night.
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The Albion allrounder finished ahead of Kookaburras' Cameron Milne after scoring 299 runs, claiming 23 wickets and taking three catches.
"It was good to just have a good season," Mack said.
"I haven't had many good seasons."
He couldn't really put his finger on what the difference was this season, other than probably more consistency.
"I was a little bit more consistent in contributing with the bat and with the ball when needed," he said.
As happy as he was to win the award, he said he would "rather win a premiership after a few years of being the bridesmaid" and was more satisfied with the team's performance than his own.
"The main thing I was happy about, is a lot of our top four or five batters were in amongst the top runscorers and averages for the year.
"And the same with the bowlers," he said.
"It means the batters are doing their job and the bowlers the same."
Mack played a key role with the ball, albeit in a different role to previous seasons.
After losing their two frontline spinners in Hayden Baker and Zac Clarke, and "pretty covered" for pace, he switched to spin.
"I used to bowl off spin when I was younger," he said.
"It was a bit the opposite, when I started bowling pace, we had no pace."
Before this season he wouldn't have bowled spin since he was 13 or 14, but it has "gone pretty well."
Albion figured prominently among the award winners.
Mack won the batting average (he also won the president's award), Ash White the bowling aggregate and Mark Ewington the average.
Kookaburras' Matt Agostino won the batting aggregate.
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In second grade Kookaburras' Alex Seach claimed the bowling average and aggregate and Albion's Ryan Cooper the batting average and aggregate. White also picked up the outstanding junior and sportsmanship award, while Adam McGuirk cleaned up in the rep awards. He was named the Second XI player of the year and overall representative player of the year.
He also took out the batting aggregate while Troy Sands won the bowling aggregate.
Earlier Albion warmed up for the grand final with a 10 wicket win over Kookaburras. After rolling Kookaburras for 85, they chased the runs down in 18 overs.
Mornington defeated Court House in the other game to finish the season on a high.
Court House did only have eight, which Mornington keeper Andrew Johns said does maybe taint the win a bit but they still had a number of quality players.
"Farran (Lamb) batted well for 45 on the back of 99 the previous night," Johns said.
He virtually held the Court House innings together as they were dismissed for 86.
"Our skipper Rhyce (Kliendienst) bowled beautifully.
"He bamboozled a couple of their batsmen with pealers," Johns said.
He finished with 4-10, and then fittingly saw them over the line for the win.
