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The Young Yabbies fullback Nic Walker is the winner of this year's Bill Castle Medal for the Best & Fairest player in the Zone for 2008.

The award is voted on by the Referees on a 3,2, 1 basis throughout the season.

Nic received his Award from SIRU Life Member Bob Conolly before the start of the 1st Grade Grand Final at Conolly Rugby Park on Saturday.

Grenfell's Mitch Pollock was the Runner Up on 16 points

			After
	After	After	Final Round
	Round 8	Round 14	Round 16
Ben Arnold (Albury)	8	8	8
Stu Geard (Ag College)	8	15	15
Aaron Lawrence (Griffith)	7	12	13
Mark Hughes (Grenfell)	8	15	15
Tim Swan (Wagga City)	7	11	13
Ben Arscott (Rivcoll)	4	13	13
Bill McCrone (Temora)	2	7	7
Mitch Pollock (Grenfell)	10	13	16	Runner Up
Pat Barrett (Waratahs)	8	10	13
Sean Kearns (RARC)	6	15	15
Graham Hardie (Cootamundra)	4	10	10
Jock Mason (Tumut)	3	12	13
Nic Walker (Young)	3	13	18	Winner
Paul Hood (Rivcoll)	9	10	10

Other Individual Awards presented on Saturday were Leading Pointscorer- Shahid Khalfan (Wagga Ag College) - 142 points and Pat Barrett (Wagga Waratahs)- Leading Try Scorer with 17 Tries during the 2008 Season.

Leading Pointscorers.
Shahid Khalfan (Ag College)	142 points
Paul Hood (Rivcoll)	128 points
Nic Walker (Young)	128 points
Drew Braithwaite (Griffith)	94 points
Terry Baker (Temora)	93 points
Matt Williams (Waratahs)	72 points

Leading Try Scorers
Pat Barrett (Waratahs)	17 tries
Nic Walker (Young)	13 tries
Andrew Fifita (Griffith)	13 tries
Terry Baker (Temora)	9 tries
Shahid Khalfan (Ag College)	8 tries