Parrots’ forward has the spark

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Parrots’ forward has the spark

JAKE Best is the Gippsland Football Netball League’s leading goalkicker this season.
He has 76 goals with one home and away game to go.
With the Parrots season likely to run deep into the finals, chances are the Leongatha full forward, at 25 years old, could cap off his season by kicking 100 goals.
That being said Best is quick to point out that making it to 100 goals for season 2015 is not his main focus.
Leongatha doesn’t sit at the top of the ladder because of the efforts of individual players.
The Parrot’s standing this year is the result of a football club that has banded together as a team.
Best says the team has plenty of quality forwards and if he is well held there are other options to feed the ball to.
“We are sitting nicely,” Best says, “but we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves.”
Leongatha needs to win its last game at home this Saturday against Morwell to secure top spot and a final’s week off.
Best began his playing days in the Alberton Football Netball Club League for home town Foster, a highlight of which was the Tigers 2010 premiership.
He first played for Leongatha in 2012 when it finished runner up to Sale and Best spent the following two years playing for the Cranbourne based Casey Scorpions.
His return to Leongatha this season, at a point when its fortunes have rocketed from a seventh placed finish last year to competition leader this season, has been good all round.
His best mate Michael Comben and cousin Shem Hawking are team mates and the club has an inspiring new coach in Beau Vernon who Best says has galvanised everyone.
“He has done an outstanding job. Everyone is getting around him.”
The club spearhead says there are a few around the club from 2012 who still have ‘the fire in their belly’ and are motivated to take this season a step further.
Leongatha has to go back several years to 2001 to rekindle the memory of its previous premiership, fading into a quite distant memory now.
The Parrots defeated Drouin comfortably on the weekend. Read the match report on page 45.

Team player: for Jake Best, Leongatha’s success this season will be all about the team not individuals. Leongatha is on track to finish on top with a win this Saturday.

Team player: for Jake Best, Leongatha’s success this season will be all about the team not individuals. Leongatha is on track to finish on top with a win this Saturday.

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