The club collected a clean sweep at the Central Highland Football League junior awards in unusual circumstances.

The evening started off well for the young Burras.

Under 15s player Izaac Grant awarded the leading goal kicked trophy with 119 majors for the home and away season.

Under 18s player Jacob Brown was named the best and fairest player, with 35 votes. He also collected the goal kicking trophy for his 80 goals. 

Brown, who started his football with Sebastopol, is in his third year with Hepburn and second year in the under-18s. He also represented the CHFL at under-17.5 level this year.

He put his big year down to a strong pre-season with the North Ballarat Rebels program and natural development in being a year older and as a second-year player in the age group.

Junior coach Jamie Grant was awarded the prestigious Goldfields Coaches Association Junior Coach of the year. 

An unfortunate mistake in tallying meant Hepburn;s Ned Jons was not awarded the Under 15s leagues best and fairest title until the following day. A re-count revealed he won by a massive 41 votes.

Hepburn president Jason Dooley said the sweep of awards was testament to the clubs culture and junior program. 

"Both the under 15s and 18s are undefeated going into finals on the back of both taking out last years premierships which is amazing enough,” Dooley said.

“We knew the boys had taken out the goal kicking awards, there was no secret there.

“But then for Ned and Jake to take out the best and fairest awards is phenomenal and is testament to the work done by our junior coaches over the last five or so years.”

Dooley said Grant’s hard work at the under 12s level was starting to pay off for the successful club.

“Jamie winning coach of the year is just so fitting as the work he has put in at under 12 level is now really benefiting the clubs older age groups,” he said.

Dooley said the counting mistake was unfortunate for both players.

 "I really feel for both boys involved, it was a clerical error by the league which could easily have been made by anyone and I’m glad to see it has all been sorted out and verified," he said.

Dooley said the club’s future looked bright and many of the players had enormous potential.

“We look forward to continuing the development of youngsters,” Dooley said.

“We are so excited about the what the future holds for these guys coming through, who knows, there may even be an AFL player or two among them.”