BRENTON Payne has become the fourth player from St Patrick's College's 2014 Herald Sun Shield premiership team to be drafted into the AFL.
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St Kilda used pick 37 to recruit Payne in Wednesday's rookie draft.
Payne is also the third player from the Bacchus Marsh junior program in the Ballarat Football League to go to an AFL club through this year's draft system.
His Western Jets teammates Liam Duggan (West Coast Eagles) and Dillon Viojo-Rainbow (Carlton), who are also products of the Cobras, were selected in the national draft.
Payne and Duggan played with Daniel Butler (Richmond) and Jesse Palmer (Port Adelaide) in St Pat's colours in the Ballarat Associated Schools competition and Herald Sun Shield this year.
Now all will embark on AFL careers.
In what has been an extraordinary week for St Pat's, old boy Oscar McDonald also went to Melbourne in the national draft.
McDonald (Edenhope-Apsley) finished his studies at St Pat's last year and worked at the college this year while playing North Ballarat Rebels.
Western Bulldogs also threw a lifeline to North Ballarat Roosters dual premiership player Brett Goodes.
Goodes, who went at pick 57, had been training with the Bulldogs after being delisted.
He was also rookied to the Western Bulldogs from then-VFL affiliate Williamstown in 2012 and upgraded to the primary list.
He made his AFL debut in 2013 and played 13 games in that season.
Hampered by injury, he made only two AFL appearances in 2014, but did finish on a high as best-on-ground in Footscray’s VFL grand final win,
He was also the Bulldogs’ inaugural VFL best and fairest.
Former North Ballarat Rebel Tanner Smith (Kalkee) was as expected rookied by Fremantle after being delisted by the Dockers at the end of the season, while Kurt Aylett stays with Essendon as a rookie.
Smith debuted with Fremantle last year, but has played just the one AFL game, with shoulder and hamstring issues halting his progress.
He was added to the Fremantle rookie list with pick 31.
Aylett (Leeton-Whitton) played one game with Greater Western Sydney Giants before being traded to the Bombers ahead of the 2014 season.
Essendon delisted Aylett, who played two AFL games this year, with the intention of retaining him as a rookie, picking him up at pick 30.
