Aaron Mooy has crowned his rise from A-League off-cut to Australian footballs great hope by winning Professional Footballers Australias (PFA) player of the year award.The midfield maestro was honoured in Tuesday nights awards ceremony in Melbourne alongside Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams, who claimed the womens player of the year prize.While Williams can put her trophy next to the same prize she won in 2012, Mooy claimed his first peer-voted award and became just the second player to win the award for their A-League exploits, after Matt McKay (2011).The 26-year-old starred in Melbourne Citys run to the semi-finals last season with 11 goals and a competition-record 20 assists.That form has made him a Socceroos mainstay.In 2016 he was Ange Postecoglous most reliable Socceroo; the only player to start all 10 Australian internationals in 2016.Not bad for a player deemed surplus to requirements by Tony Popovic at Western Sydney in 2014.Now with English Championship side Huddersfield Town - on loan from English Premier League giants Manchester City - Mooy said he was delighted to be honoured by his teammates and fellow professionals.To be chosen by the players makes this award very special, he said.To join the likes of Mark Schwarzer and Tim Cahill is an honour and one I am proud of.Williams won the prize for her glovework at national level, for W-League club Canberra United and NWSL franchise Houston Dash.She beat out Asian player of the year Caitlin Foord for the prize, thanking her teammates for the accolade.Over the past few years we have had a really hectic schedule and a lot of ups and downs. To have the backing of the girls means so much, she said.The first time I won the award was when I was breaking into the team.This time around there has been a lot of history-making events and I have experienced so many highs with the girls and this is the most rewarding recognition I can imagine.Jamie Maclaren, the top-scoring Australian striker in last seasons A-League, was given the Harry Kewell Medal as the best under-23 player.Kewell was also honoured at the awards ceremony, becoming the eighth player to be given the Alex Tobin Medal for career-long contribution to the sport.PFA 2016 PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARDSMale - Aaron MooyFemale - Lydia WilliamsUnder-23 Male - Jamie MaclarenAlex Tobin Medal for outstanding contribution to the sport - Harry KewellMENS PLAYER OF THE YEAR2016 - Aaron Mooy2015 - Mat Ryan2014 - Mile Jedinak2013 - Robbie Kruse2012 - Brett Holman2011 - Matt McKay2010 - Mark Schwarzer2009 - Tim CahillWOMENS PLAYER OF THE YEAR2016 - Lydia Williams2015 - Elise Kellond-Knight2014 - Katrina Gorry2013 - Sam Kerr2012 - Lydia Williams2011 - Elise Kellond-Knight2010 - Servet UzulnarUNDER-23 PLAYER OF THE YEAR2016 - Jamie Maclaren2015 - Mat Ryan2014 - Mat Ryan2013 - Marco Rojas2012 - Mat Ryan2011 - Robbie Kruse2010 - Mitch Langerak2009 - Nikita Rukavytsya* Note: Awards open to all Australian-based players or Australians based overseas.ALEX TOBIN MEDALISTS2016 - Harry Kewell2014 - Mark Schwarzer2012 - Frank Farina2011 - Mark Viduka2009 - Craig Johnston2008 - Joe Marston, Johnny Warren Kris Dunn Bulls Jersey . 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Pinch-runner Michael Martinez then scored on a double by Domonic Brown, who earlier hit his ninth home run. "Its just location. Its always location," Johnson said. "You get by on stuff just a little while. You have to make good pitches. Walking a guy is the death. Thats been a little bit of his problem." Storen has allowed four earned runs in his last five appearances. His ERA rose to 5.21. "I just left a couple of balls up in the zone and they found holes," he said. "Didnt make the pitches." Philadelphias win evened the three-game series and gives the Phillies another chance to reach .500 in Sundays finale -- when they can also catch the Nationals for second place in the NL East. Chad Durbin (1-0) got two outs for the win, but was removed with one out in the eighth after allowing a bunt single and a walk. Jeremy Horst pitched out of the jam and Jonathan Papelbon worked the ninth for his ninth save. Denard Span had three hits, including an RBI single, while Adam LaRoche had an RBI single and an opposite-field homer for the Nationals, but it was hardly the offensive outburst Johnson has been seeking during his razor boycott. The 70-year-old manager decided to keep letting his facial hair grow despite a modest five-run output in Friday nights win. "We had some opportunities to score, pushed a couple of runs in, but they seemedd to get some big two-out runs -- I dont know if all of them were two outs, it felt like it -- and we didnt," LaRoche said.dddddddddddd The Nationals collected 11 hits against five Philadelphia pitchers, but went 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position and left 11 men on. "Its baby steps," shortstop Ian Desmond said. "We havent been swinging the bats really at all. To put up 11 hits is good. Now the next thing we tackle is hitting with runners in scoring position." Starters Dan Haren and Jonathan Pettibone both went six innings. Haren had quite the eclectic line: six innings, three runs, 10 strikeouts, one walk and four hits -- all for extra bases. Brown and Erik Kratz hit homers on back-to-back pitches in the second inning, and Pettibone and Jimmy Rollins pounded back-to-back doubles to produce a run in the fifth. "Stuff-wise today was about as good as Ive had all year," Haren said. "I just made a couple mistakes, but if Im throwing like I am tonight well be good." Pettibone, a rookie yet to lose a decision over seven starts, matched his career high with six strikeouts while scattering nine hits and three runs. He allowed single runs in the third, fourth and fifth. NOTES: The play of the day was made accidentally by Nationals 2B Steve Lombardozzi. While trying to field a drag bunt by Freddy Galvis, Lombardozzi had the ball carom off his glove and his knee -- and straight to 1B LaRoche for the out. ... Nationals OF Tyler Moore singled for the second straight game, raising his average to a still-dubious .139. His struggles earned a special mention when Johnson was talking about facial hair. "I told Tyler the reason I was growing this was for him, to change his luck," the manager said. ... The Nationals called up utility man Jeff Kobernus from Triple-A Syracuse and designated RHP Yunesky Maya for assignment. It was Kobernus first day with the major league club, and his pregame duties included signing his name on a big white piece of paper so it could be scanned and put on the scoreboard if he made an appearance at the plate. Also, his parents flew in from California for the game, and they got to see him enter as a pinch runner in the eighth. ' ' '