City United skipper Matt Trappel completed an impressive hat-trick when he was named Maitland cricket's player of the year.
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Trappel added the honour to captaining City United to the first grade premiership and earning the Chris Mudd Award as best player in the grand final.
“I guess I’ll have to give myself some new goals as that ticked off three in one year,” Trappel joked at Robins Oval on Tuesday.
The player of the year award was made all the more special with Trappel’s father Wayne, who won the award in 1994-95, presenting the shield and trophy.
“It was definitely pretty special,” Trappel said
“One getting presented the award by my old man, but also obviously him winning in 1994-95 it’s pretty special that I can share that trophy with my dad.
“It was also special to get presented the Chris Mudd trophy for player of the final by dad as well because Muddy was a really good mate of my old man.
“I know how much that meant to Dad.”
There was another special moment when North Suburbs teenager Will Fort was presented with the David Fort Memorial Shield, the first grade fielding award named in honour of his uncle David, by his father Tony.
Fort added the fieldin award to the batting aggregate award he shared with Thornton Park’s Peter Gabriel.
Trappel said while the personal accolades were great, he would trade them both in for the premiership.
“I think it’s been good that I have been able to contribute and lead from the front for the team, but it’s definitely been a massive team effort.
“There was something different this year. We made the grand final the past three years and lost, this was a completely different campaign.
“I felt we had that fight. It meant so much to us and I think that really showed especially from the Norths game when we rolled them for 100 at Robins.
“We set ourselves as a team where we wanted to be at the end of the year.
“Those semi-final and final wins, the fight the boys showed we definitely deserved to win the premiership with how deep we dug.
“We were driven by the last three years.”
Trappel said the premiership win meant so much to so many people, particularly coming in the club’s centenary year.
”That premiership was for a lot more than our first grade team, there’s a lot of people in our club who have put a lot of effort in and been there through the last 15 or 20 years,” he said.
“To get that premiership and the one in fourths in the 100th year of the club was very special.”
Player of year
First grade: Matt Trappel, City United
Second grade: Jason Grob, Thornton
Third grade: Adam Sidotie, Tenambit-Morpeth
Fourth grade: Robert Wells, City United
Fifth grade: Craig Barclay, Northern Suburbs
A grade: Brad Bidner, Paterson
B grade: Luke Davies, Hinton
C grade: Shane Kornell, Kurri Kurri
D grade: Michael J Akerham, Seaham
E grade: Brett Lewis, Kurri
Umpire of year: Glenn Miller