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Park’s Motor Group SWPL

Rangers regained top spot in Park’s Motor Group SWPL 1 on Wednesday night when they won
2-0 away to Aberdeen. In front of a crowd in excess of 1,800 at Pittodrie, second half goals from
Kirsty Howat and Kayla McCoy gave Rangers three more points.
On Sunday, Rangers had come from behind to win 2-1 against in-form Spartans. Rebecca
Galbraith had put Spartans in front on the half hour but after Brianna Westrup had headed
Rangers level on the stroke of half time, Tessel Middag slotted home the winning goal with twelve
minutes remaining.
Glasgow City had kept themselves as leaders by beating Partick Thistle 2-0. Hayley
Lauder opened the scoring for City via a first half free kick and Lauren Dsvidson wrapped up the
win with the second goal after the break.
A strong second half performance helped Celtic on their way towards a 6-1 victory over
Motherwell. Clarissa Larisey’s opener for Celtic was cancelled out by Jemma Hughes, but after
the break, Annie Timoney put them back in front and
they went on to seal the points thanks to Charlie
Wellings, Isibeal Atkinson and a Chloe Craig double.
Hibernian ran out 4-1 winners against Hearts
in their local derby match. Alexa Coyle gave Hibs a first
half lead and they added further goals after the break
through Michaela McAlonie, Shannon Leishman and
Eilidh Adams before Maria McAneny grabbed a late
consolation.
Hibernian went on to beat Partick Thistle 1-0 at
Easter Road on Wednesday evening, with Eilidh Adams
scoring the only goal of the game.
Aberdeen are back in the top half tollowing their
2-1 victory over Hamilton Academical. After a
goalless first half, Bayley Hutchison fired the Dons in Lauren Doran-Barr of Motherwell blocks a pass
front and they secured the win with a late strike from
from Celtic striker Shen Mengyu
Chloe Gover, despite a reply from Megan Quigley. (Colin Poultney/collargeimages.co.uk).
Dundee Utd clinched the SWPL 2
title with five games left to play, following SWPL 1 P W D L F A Pts GD
their 4-0 victory away to Kilmarnock. RANGERS 20 19 1 0 76 9 58 67
Tammy Harkin netted a first half brace, GLASGOW CITY 21 18 2 1 73 12 56 61
before Danni McGinley made it three and CELTIC 21 14 3 2 4 8 64 18 45 46
14
20 10
HIBERNIAN
34 20 32
Harkin completed her hat-trick to crown a ABERDEEN 20 8 1 11 30 50 25 -20
great day for her side. After dominating SPARTANS WFC 21 5 8 8 24 44 23 -20
the division virtually all season, United MOTHERWELL 20 5 2 13 22 66 17 -44
can now look forward to top flight football. PARTICK THISTLE 20 4 4 12 23 54 16 -31
Second placed Glasgow Women HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN 21 4 2 15 16 52 14 -36
meanwhile went down to a 2-0 defeat at HAMILTON ACADEMICAL 20 1 3 16 11 48 6 -37
the hands of St Johnstone. Morgan
Steedman netted a goal in each half to Aberdeen 2 Hamilton 1; Celtic 6 Motherwell 1; Glasgow City 2
earn St Johnstone one of their best results Partick 0; Hibernian 4 Hearts 1; Rangers 2 Spartans 1. (Mid)
Aberdeen 0 Rangers 2; Hibernian 1 Partick 0.
of the season to date. SWPL 2 P W D L F A Pts GD
Boroughmuir Thistle made up DUNDEE UTD 19 17 2 0 70 14 53 56
ground on Glasgow with a 2-1 win away to GLASGOW WOMEN 18 8 6 4 37 25 30 12
Queen’s Park. The Spiders took a BOROUGHMUIR THISTLE 18 8 3 7 34 31 27 3
seventeenth minute lead through Rachel KILMARNOCK 18 6 5 7 41 40 23 1
Connor but Boroughmuir were back on ST JOHNSTONE 18 6 4 8 31 38 22 -7
level terms just after the half hour thanks STIRLING UNIVERSITY 16 2 2 12 11 55 8 -44
to Courtney McAvoy and Samantha QUEEN'S PARK 15 1 4 10 14 35 7 -21
Duncan netted the winning goal, nine Glasgow Women 0 St Johnstone 2; Kilmarnock 0 Dundee Utd 4;
minutes into the second half. Queen’s Park 1 Boroughmuir 2. (Mid) Boroughmuir 1 Kilmarnock 1.
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