Kade Kolodjashnij has achieved a double statistical “first” as he continues to defy the feared second-year blues.

In his 28th AFL game, Kolodjashnij had a career-best 27 possessions in the Gold Coast SUNS’ loss to the Sydney Swans at Metricon Stadium on Saturday and topped the SUNS possession count for the first time.

It was the teenage Tasmanian’s seventh consecutive game of 20 or more possessions and surpassed as his best the 25 touches against North Melbourne at Etihad Stadium in Round 7.

The 19-year-old defender, third on the SUNS possession list this year behind Michael Rischitelli and Dion Prestia, became the 13th different player to top the SUNS possession count in the club’s 98 AFL games (including ties).

Gary Ablett has done so most often, topping the stats sheet 52 times, followed by Prestia (15 times), Rischitelli (9), Harley Bennell (8), David Swallow (4), Danny Stanley (4), Jared Brennan (3), Sam Iles (3), Jaeger O’Meara (2), Jarrod Harbrow (2), Mitch Hallahan (2) and Nathan Bock (1).

Kolodjashnij’s standout performance in a spirited SUNS performance against the Swans comes a fortnight after he set a club record for most marks in a game against Collingwood at Metricon in Round 8.

He took 13 marks against the Pies to surpass the previous SUNS’ best of 12 marks, taken by Danny Stanley against GWS Giants and Steven May against Hawthorn in 2012.

In other statistical highlights on Saturday:

· Jesse Lonergan, in his 19th game, had a career-best 23 possessions and a career-best 12 contested possessions.

· Tom Nicholls, in his 22nd game, had a career-best 16 contested possessions.

· Adam Saad continued his assault on the club record for running bounces, taking another eight against Sydney. He had eight of his side’s nine bounces. It was the fourth-highest single game tally in SUNS history, behind Nathan Bock’s 12 bounces against Adelaide in 2011, and Saad’s nine-bounce games against Brisbane in Round 5 and Hawthorn in Round 9. The exciting defender has had 46 bounces in nine games in his debut season – almost half the entire team total of 95 in 10 games. Alex Sexton (7) and Jarrod Harbrow (6) are next highest as Saad closes in the club record for most bounces in a season, set by Harbrow at 48 in 2011.

· Peter Wright became the 77th SUNS player, the 39th teenage debutant, and the 11th youngest at 18 years 271 days. He was the 40th different SUNS player this year, leaving only five players at the club who have not played - Josh Hall and the injured O’Meara on the senior list, plus rookies Tyrone Downie, Louis Herbert and Jared Ellis. At the same last year the SUNS had played only 29 different players. It 35 different players to Round 10 in 2011, 38 in 2012 and 33 in 2013. There was more experience in the players on the sideline (1221 games) than there was in the side that played the Swans (1134 games).