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SBS Scottish Women’s Premier League

Glasgow City stay on top of the Scottish Women’s Premier League after a nine-goal victory
against Spartans. The Edinburgh side had only been beaten twice going into the game but found
themselves two down inside the opening four minutes, Tyler Dodds and Julia Molin scoring for
City. Aoife Colvill and Cailin Michie put them further ahead, before Joanne Love made it five
before half time. After the break, Colvill netted her second whilst Lauren Davidson bagged a
brace and Taylor Fisher rounded off the scoring.
The result means that City remain on top on goal difference from Celtic who won 6-0
against Partick Thistle. Charlie Wellings opened the scoring and Kathleen McGovern added a
second, before Wellings further increased their lead before half time. Wellings went on to
complete her hat-trick in second half, with Maria Gros and Mengyu Shen also getting on the
scoresheet.
The next two teams in the table met each other and it was Rangers who triumphed 1-0
over Hibernian. In a tightly contested match, Zoe Ness scored the only goal of the game, five
minutes into the second half, to preserve Rangers’ 100% record and condemn Hibs to a second
narrow defeat in as many weeks.
Hearts claimed their first victory of the season, fighting back for a fine 3-2 success away
to Aberdeen. It looked as though it was going to be a difficult afternoon for Hearts as Eva
Thomson and Donna Paterson put the Dons two ahead in side the opening twenty minutes, but
Amelie Birse pulled one back on the stroke of half time. Monica Forsyth then levelled matters
early in the second half and Birse completed the comeback with her second goal, twenty minutes
from time.
Motherwell also won for the first time, 3-0 against Hamilton Academical and the
result was just enough to lift them off the bottom of the table. Leanne Crichton opened the
scoring from the penalty spot and Lori Gardner fired in a powerful strike seconds before half
time, before Jemma Hughes sealed the points for ‘Well wit the third goal, midway through the
second half.
In SWPL 2, all of the teams have now played four matches and despite not having a game
on Sunday, Dundee Utd have held onto the leadership although they have been joined on ten
points by Glasgow Women after they
won 2-0 away to Queen’s Park. Cara SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
Henderson gave Glasgow the lead after RANGERS 5 5 0 0 24 2 15 22
twenty minutes and Mhairi Lyle wrapped GLASGOW CITY 5 4 1 0 23 4 13 19
up the win with the second goal late on. CELTIC 5 4 1 0 18 5 13 13
A win would also have taken HIBERNIAN 5 3 0 2 12 3 9 9
Boroughmuir Thistle level on points ABERDEEN 5 2 1 2 7 7 7 -15 0
with the top two but instead they were SPARTANS WFC 5 5 1 1 1 0 3 4 4 5 19 4 3 -8
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beaten for the first time, 3-2 by HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 5 1 0 4 5 17 3 -12
MOTHERWELL
Kilmarnock who notched up their HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 5 1 0 4 3 15 3 -12
second win in a row. Monica Harty was the PARTICK THISTLE 5 1 0 4 5 20 3 -15
heroine for Killie as she hit a hat-trick to
spearhead the win, whilst Boroughmuir Aberdeen 2 Hearts 3; Celtic 6 Partick 0; Glasgow City 9 Spartans 0;
replied through Courtney McAvoy and an Hibernian 0 Rangers 1; Motherwell 3 Hamilton 0. (Mid) Rangers 7
Elvie McLean penalty. Partick 1.
Honours were even in the other SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
game as Stirling University and St DUNDEE UTD 4 3 1 0 11 3 10 8
Johnstone battled out a goalless draw, GLASGOW WOMEN 4 4 3 2 1 1 0 1 8 8 4 5 10 4 3
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BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE
Stirling picking up only their second point KILMARNOCK 4 2 0 2 13 8 6 5
of the season as a result. ST JOHNSTONE 4 1 1 2 5 8 4 -3
On Wednesday night, Rangers went top STIRLING UNIVERSITY 4 0 2 2 1 12 2 -11
of SWPL 1 by beating Partick Thistle 7-1. QUEEN'S PARK 4 0 0 4 3 9 0 -6
Lizzie Arnot scored a hat-trick along with
Kirsten Reilly (2), Jenna Fife and Kayla Kilmarnock 3 Boroughmuir 2; Queen’s Park 0 Glasgow 2; Stirling 0
St Johnstone 0.
McCoy, with London Pollard replying.
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