BROCKLESBY-Burrumbuttock won their third Azzi medal in the past six years when centreman Luke Schilg took out the Hume league’s best and fairest at Henty on Wednesday night.
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Despite missing three matches, Schilg polled 24 votes to edge out Osborne’s Jamie Parr by one.
Lockhart livewire Jeremy Sykes and Howlong ruckman Peter Hancock tied for third on 21.
Schilg’s success comes after Saints’ rover Nico Sedgwick won last year and ruckman Trent Storey in 2010.
Schilg was presented the medal by Garvan Azzi, the son of Kelly who the medal is named after.
Kelly Azzi and Schilg’s grandfather, Ian, were instrumental in reforming the Hume league after World War II in the 1940s.