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Biffa Scottish Women’s Cup

Holders Glasgow City are through to the semi finals after they won 8-0 away to Stirling
University. Priscilla Chinchilla led the scoring for City by hitting a hat-trick and Kerry Beattie
weighed in with a double, whilst Lauren Davidson, Hayley Lauder and Jenna Clark also got on the
scoresheet to help take their side through to the semi final stage once again.
Three of the quarter final ties were played on Friday night and the other took place on
Sunday, which saw Celtic win 2-0 at Aberdeen. Celtic took the lead four minutes before half time
when Shen Mengyu curled a shot home after exchanging passes with Clarissa Larisey and Jodie
Bartle powered in a header for the second, just ahead of the hour mark.
The result of the round undoubtedly went to Partick Thistle, who eliminated former
winners Hibernian by defeating them 4-2. Partick raced
into a two-goal lead during the first half thanks to Clare
Docherty and Taylor Hamill and Cara McBrearty made it
three early in the second half. Hibs then staged a
fightback and reduced the arrears to a single goal thanks
to Shannon Leishman and Michaela McAlonie but Thistle
sealed the victory with eighteen minutes remaining when
Cheryl McCulloch scored the fourth. The game was also
notable for Partick captain Demi Falconer making her
100th consecutive appearance, having not missed a
minute of action during that time.
Completing the semi final line up are Hearts who
were 2-1 winners over Kilmarnock. Maria McAneny
gave Hearts the lead during the first half and after Alex
Middleton brought Killie back on level terms early in the
second half, McAneny drilled home her second goal and Lori Gardner on the attack for Motherwell against
the winner for Hearts with fourteen minutes remaining. Rangers (Colin Poultney/collargeimages.co.uk).
Park’s Motor Group SWPL

Whilst their rivals were on Biffa Scottish Women’s Cup duty, Rangers took the opportunity to
open up a lead of five points in SWPL 1
when they won 1-0 at Motherwell on SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
Sunday. RANGERS 22 21 1 0 83 9 64 74
Lizzie Arnot scored the only goal of GLASGOW CITY 22 19 2 1 79 12 59 67
the game, just before the hour mark, to seal CELTIC 22 15 3 4 68 18 48 50
yet another win for her side and put them HIBERNIAN 21 10 2 9 34 24 32 10
in a commanding position in the title race. ABERDEEN 21 8 2 11 31 51 26 -20
In SWPL 2, Boroughmuir SPARTANS WFC 22 5 9 8 25 45 24 -20
Thistle have struck out for second place, MOTHERWELL 22 5 3 14 25 70 18 -45
opening up a three point lead over PARTICK THISTLE 21 4 4 5 2 12 26 57 17 -31
-42
16 16 58 14
22
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
Glasgow Women with a 4-0 victory HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 21 1 3 17 11 54 6 -43
away to Stirling University. Ellie Taylor
gave Boroughmuir a second minute lead
which was quickly doubled by Mhari Smith Motherwell 0 Rangers 1.
and Taylor netted a second ahead of half
W
F
P
A Pts GD
time. Mia Chambers rounded off the SWPL 2 20 18 D 2 L 0 73 14 56 59
DUNDEE UTD
scoring for her side with the final goal late BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE 20 10 3 7 43 32 33 11
on.
GLASGOW WOMEN 19 8 6 5 37 28 30 9
Queen’s Park meanwhile lifted ST JOHNSTONE 20 7 4 9 35 41 25 -6
themselves off the bottom of the table by KILMARNOCK 18 6 5 7 41 40 23 1
beating St Johnstone 1-0. Rachel Connor QUEEN'S PARK 17 2 4 11 17 39 10 -22
scored the only goal of the game for the STIRLING UNIVERSITY 18 2 2 14 12 64 8 -52
Spiders in the eighteenth minute to give
them three crucial points. Queen’s Park 1 St Johnstone 0; Stirling 0 Boroughmuir 4.
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