Rebekah Jenkins and Kurt Hartmann created a unique footy double at Manilla Showground last Saturday.
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The two talented players polled the three points in the Group 4 Best and Fairest Award, Rebekah helping her Kootingal Ladies League Tag side to a 42-4 win over Manilla before her partner, Kurt, picked up the three points in his first grade side's 40-16 rainy win over the Tigers.
Rebekah also scored one of eight tries for her side but Kurt went one better and snuck over for two!
He also makes a habit of scoring the first four pointer for the Roosters and ducked over from dummy half in the 11th minute to give them the lead 6-4.
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Tom Flanders then scored in the corner for Liam Allan to convert and reclaim the lead at 10-6 but when the ill-fated Ryley Mackay shrugged out of a number of tackles to score beside the posts the Roosters reclaimed the lead 12-10 and were never headed as the rain ruined the Tigers chances.
Mackay's serious knee cap fracture truncated the game and added something of a sour taste for the Roosters after they rebounded from a first round loss to Dungowan.
The Roosters LLT side also copped a first round 14-nil loss to the Cowgirls and Rebekah thought Saturday was a good way to bounce back.
She thought her teammates all worked hard and joked about Kurt equalling her three-point B&F effort.
Kurt, in turn, reckoned the B&F points awards "are a running joke in our house".
"She won't be able to run around the house (lording it over him)," he said in the dressing sheds after the rain had made it "tough conditions".
"We had to tighten our game," he said of a much better second half display where they raced in four tries in the first 18 minutes to take command.
His three-point award saw him join Boggabri's Isaiah Adams and Rob Doolan, Gunnedah's Trent Hilton, young Bears hooker Liam Ball and Moree Boar prop Luke Hetherington on three points, two adrift of Narrabri halfback Todd Nichols and a point astern of Dungowan's Brett Jarrett.
Rebekah meanwhile joined eight others at the top of the LLT B&F standings.
LLT B&F
3: Ava Hannaford (Bogg), Charlotte Eather, Nautica Eather (Gunn), Katerina Hinton (Mor), Georgia Horniman, Phoebe Porter (Dun), Bronte Harris (NT), Dayna Porter (WC), Rebekah Jenkins (Koot).
2: Amelia Gosper (Narr), Maddie Buhagiar (Gunn), Abbey Mallise (Barr), Kiara Briggs (Koot), Tayla King (NT), Shakayla Williams (Mor), Emma Carrigan (Dun), Kim Flett (Man), Tashanny Clarke (Narr).
1: Caitlyn Dewar, Ashlyn Summers (Bogg), Jasmine Verrell (WC), Sheldyn Briggs, Lena Smith (Mor), Ellie New (Dung), Joan O'Leary (Man), Sarah Gill (Koot), Jacqui Jones (Gunn).
FIRST GRADE MEN B&F
5: Todd Nichols (Narr).
4: Brett Jarrett (Dung).
3: Isaiah Adams, Rob Doolan (Bogg), Trent Hilton (Gunn), Liam Ball (NT), Luke Hetherington (Mor), Kurt Hartmann (Koot).
2: Cody Tickle (WC), Liam Hatch, Nick Zahra (Koot), Mitch Doring (Man), Adrian Smith (Mor), Matt Gillham (Bogg), Nick White (Gunn).
1: Cameron Kerr (Bogg), Matt Baker (Gunn), Ryan Ingram (Dung), Jeremy York (NT), Isaah Millgate (WC), Robert Morris (Man), Daniel Howe (Narr).
