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Park’s Motor Group SWPL

Rangers have the advantage in the SWPL 1 title race after they won 3-1 against Glasgow City in
the top of the table clash on Sunday. Both teams went into the game with an unbeaten record and it
was Rangers who went two ahead at he break thanks to Lizzie Arnot and a Niamh Farrelly own goal.
Jane Ross put the seal on the game with the third, before City grabbed a late consolation through
Clare Shine.
This means that Rangers lead the table by two points and have a game in hand, whilst Celtic
are two further points adrift in third following their 2-0 victory at Spartans. Maria Gros opened the
scoring for Celtic in the first half, with Clarissa Larisey adding the second just after the hour.
Hibernian returned to league action with a defeat, beaten 1-0 by Aberdeen who moved
themselves closer towards mid-table security. Eva Thomson scored the only goal of the game for the
Dons with a powerful 20-yard strike, with eight minutes on the clock.
Hearts were another team to pick up three
valuable points, courtesy of a 1-0 success against
Motherwell. Erin Rennie was on target for Hearts,
fifteen minutes from time, for a result which moves
them out of the bottom three places.
Partick Thistle stay second from bottom but
did their survival hopes some good by winning 1-0 away
to Hamilton Academical who are falling behind the
others. With twelve minutes remaining, Clare Docherty
scored the only goal to earn Thistle their third league
win of the season.
In midweek, Rangers kept up the pace at the top
with a 4-0 victory against Hamilton Academical. Kayla
McCoy netted twice and Zoe Ness added the other as
Rangers went three up during the first half, and Kirsty
Howat completed the scoring after the break.
Glasgow City and Celtic met each other on
Thursday night and it was City who emerged as 2-0 Hamilton Academical’s Megan Quigley challenges
winners to keep themselves two points behind Rangers. Amy Bulloch of Partick Thistle (Malcolm McKenzie).
Ole Fulutudilu and Tyler Dodds scored the
P
W
F
goals to get their side back to winning ways SWPL 1 15 14 D 1 L 0 59 A Pts GD
RANGERS
52
43
7
and put a huge dent in Celtic’s title hopes. GLASGOW CITY 16 13 2 1 51 9 41 42
The top two in SWPL 2 did not play CELTIC 16 11 3 2 52 12 36 40
on Sunday and Boroughmuir Thistle
HIBERNIAN 15 7 2 6 22 14 23 8
consoidated themselves in third place with MOTHERWELL 16 5 2 9 19 42 17 -23
a 1-0 victory against Kilmarnock. ABERDEEN 14 5 1 8 20 32 16 -12
Shannon Todd settled matters with the only HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 16 4 1 11 12 37 13 -25
goal of the game for Boroughmuir, just after SPARTANS WFC 16 2 7 7 14 40 13 -26
the half hour mark. PARTICK THISTLE 14 3 3 8 15 39 12 -24
St Johnstone meanwhile battled HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 16 1 2 13 9 40 5 -31
out a 1-1 draw with Stirling University,
Aberdeen 1 Hibernian 0; Hamilton 0 Partick 1; Hearts 1 Motherwell
who remain at the foot of the table. A win
0; Rangers 3 Glasgow City 1; Spartans 0 Celtic 2. (Mid) Rangers 4
would have seen Stirling go up a place but Hamilton 0; Glasgow City 2 Celtic 0.
despite taking a first half lead through SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
Emma Lyons, they were pegged back when DUNDEE UTD 13 11 2 0 45 10 35 35
Leia Glading eqaulised for St Johnstone, GLASGOW WOMEN 13 7 6 5 1 1 5 33 17 26 16 3
12
25 22 19
BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE
fifteen minutes from time. KILMARNOCK 11 4 2 5 26 25 14 1
There will only be one match played
ST JOHNSTONE 12 3 3 6 19 27 12 -8
in the Park’s Motor Group SWPL this QUEEN'S PARK 11 1 3 7 10 24 6 -14
coming weekend, due to clubs being STIRLING UNIVERSITY 12 1 2 9 9 42 5 -33
involved in the Fourth Round of the SWF
Scottish Cup. Boroughmuir 1 Kilmarnock 0; St Johnstone 1 Stirling Univ 1.
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