Page 13 - Women's Soccer Scene Issue No.29 2022-23

It has been an incredible few days in the Park’s Motor Group SWPL 1 and the title race has been blow
wide open. Just days after suffering their first defeat, Glasgow City were beaten again in midweek,
this time going down 2-1 to Rangers. Rachel McLauchlan gave Rangers the lead midway through the
first half and after Jenna Clark had looked to have salvaged a point for City late on, Kirsty Howat
grabbed a winner in injury time.
Celtic meanwhile built on their win against City on Sunday by beating Hearts 6-0, which
leaves them two points behind City and Rangers a further point adrift in third. Jacynta
Galabadaarachchi, Chloe Craig and Natasha Flint put the Hoops three ahead at half time, before Amy
Gallacher netted a second half brace and Katherine Loferski completed the scoring.
Hibernian defeated Partick Thistle 3-1 in
the other top half game, which sees them narrow the
gap on Hearts to eight points. Katie Lockwood was
on target twice for Hibs and Brooke Nunn added the
other, after Cara Henderson had given Thistle a first
half lead.
Motherwell have a lead of five point in the
bottom section after their 4-0 victory over Glasgow
Women. Jemma Hughes gave them a seventh
minute lead with Chelsie Watson and Niamh Noble
adding further goals ahead of half time, before
Hughes netted her second with eighteen minutes
remaining.
The other midweek game turned out to be a
seven-goal thriller as Aberdeen edged out
Dundee Utd 4-3. Bayley Hutchison and Millie Jenna Clark (12) scores with a header for Glasgow City
Urquhart put the Dons two ahead inside the opening against Rangers (SWPL/Colin Poultney).
half hour but either side of the break, United
came roaring back to level the scores SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
through Danni McGinley and Leigha GLASGOW CITY 26 22 2 2 101 13 68 88
Dobbins. Urquhart restored Aberdeen’s lead CELTIC 26 21 3 2 103 7 66 96
with Jade McLaren equalising once again RANGERS 26 20 5 1 99 7 65 92
but with five minutes left, the Dons had the HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 25 13 4 8 34 27 43 7
final say as Hutchison scored the winning HIBERNIAN 25 10 5 10 48 39 35 9
PARTICK THISTLE 26 9 4 13 38 61 31 -23
goal. MOTHERWELL 26 10 8 8 39 43 38 -4
Montrose are keeping up the pace in SPARTANS WFC 25 9 6 10 24 41 33 -17
SWPL 2, staying ten points clear at the top ABERDEEN 26 7 3 16 30 63 24 -33
after a Lauren Gordon penalty, Charlotte DUNDEE UTD 26 6 3 17 32 67 21 -35
Gammie and London Pollard gave them a HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 25 5 1 19 24 80 16 -56
3-1 victory over Kilmarnock, whose GLASGOW WOMEN 26 0 0 26 7 131 0 -124
consolation came from Mary Jackson.
Gartcairn Women meanwhile ran out 4-1 Motherwell 4 Glasgow Women 0; Dundee Utd 3 Aberdeen 4;
winners at East Fife, Ami Robertson hitting Glasgow City 1 Rangers 2; Hearts 0 Celtic 6; Hibernian 3 Partick 1.
a hat-trick and Megan Wands adding the SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
other, with Luisa Ballach replying. Ellie MONTROSE 22 15 4 3 64 24 49 40
Kane and Eleanor Smith were on target for
GARTCAIRN WOMEN 22 12 3 7 42 38 39 4
Queen’s Park as they drew 2-2 with KILMARNOCK 23 10 7 6 33 23 37 10
Boroughmuir Thistle, who netted ST JOHNSTONE 23 10 6 7 32 34 36 -2
through a brace from Abigail Varghese. Elvie BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE 23 8 8 7 48 37 32 11
McLean, Ellie Cowie and Morgan Steedman QUEEN'S PARK 22 9 2 11 37 38 29 -1
all netted a goal piece for St Johnstone as STIRLING UNIVERSITY 22 4 6 12 27 55 18 -28
they beat Stirling University 3-2, after a EAST FIFE 23 1 6 16 22 56 9 -34
Shana MacPhail double had put the students
East Fife 1 Gartcairn 4; Montrose 3 Kilmarnock 1; Queen’s Park 2
two up after eleven minutes. Boroughmuir 2; St Johnstone 3 Stirling Univ 2.
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