Page 19 - Women's Soccer Scene Issue No.27 2022-23

Newly crowned league Champions Cardiff City Women are showing no signs of slowing up
and they now have a ten point lead following Sunday’s 2-0 victory over Cardiff Met Women.
Eliza Collie has been in fine form in recent weeks and she underlined this by scoring both goals
for the Bluebirds.
Swansea City have already secured the runners-up spot but the ywent down to only their
second league defeat of the season, beaten 2-1 by The New Saints. The home side took the lead
on the half hour through a Beth Lewis penalty, with Katy Hosford getting the Swans back on
level terms by the break. Emma Ridge put TNS back in front with sixteen minutes remaining
and this time they held on, to record a notable win over last saeson’s title winners.
Pontypridd Utd will finish on top of the Plate conference following their 1-1 draw against
Barry Town Utd. The first half was goalless but after Sophie Norman had given Barry the lead
shortly after the restart, Alison Witts scored an equaliser with fourteen minutes remaining to
give Ponty the result they needed.
Aberystwyth Town did all they could with a 3-0 victory against Abergavenny
Women but they will have to settled for second in the Plate conference, and sixth overall. All
of the damage inflicted by Aberystwyth came early on, with the three goals coming inside the
opening seventeen minutes. Emily Thomas gave them an early lead, Shauma Chambers added
a quick second and Amy Jenkins joined them on the scoresheet.
Llandudno Ladies kept their outside hopes of a second place finish alive after they
defeated Llanfair Utd 5-1. Sofie Owen’s early strike for Llandudno was quickly cancelled out
by Harriet Davies but Erin Doran and Rebecca Jarvis-Evans ensured that Llandudno went into
the half time break with a two-goal advantage.In the second half, Maddie Williams and Sioned
Phillips also got on the scoresheet but
PREMIER DIVISION P W D L F A Pts GD
barring a huge victory over Connah’s CARDIFF CITY F.C. 19 16 3 0 67 11 51 56
Quay Nomads in their final match, it SWANSEA CITY 19 12 5 2 51 17 41 34
looks as though their defence of the title CARDIFF MET WOMEN 19 10 2 7 34 38 32 -4
they won last season will result in a third THE NEW SAINTS 19 7 2 10 38 46 23 -8
PONTYPRIDD UTD 19 8 4 7 32 27 28 5
place finish. ABERYSTWYTH TOWN 19 7 3 9 31 34 24 -3
Briton Ferry Llansawel meanwhile BARRY TOWN UTD 19 3 3 13 17 52 12 -35
kept up their winning run with a 5-3 success ABERGAVENNY WOMEN * 19 2 2 15 14 59 2 -45
against runners-up Cascade Youth Club.
Already assured of the South Division title, Cardiff Met 0 Cardiff City 2; TNS 2 Swansea 1; Aberystwyth 3
Abergavenny 0; Barry 1 Pontypridd 1.
a quickfire double from Megan Kearle put
Ferry two ahead inside the opening ten NORTH DIVISION P W D L F A Pts 0
WREXHAM 12 12 0 0 70 6 36 64
minutes and after Molly Chapman pulled
CONNAH'S QUAY NOMADS 11 8 1 2 39 9 25 30
one back for Cascade, Laura-May Walkley LLANDUDNO 11 7 1 3 34 16 22 18
restored the two-goal advantage ahead of CPDM Y FELINHELI * 12 5 2 5 25 38 11 -13
half time. Cascade rallied in the second half CPD Y RHYL 1879 12 3 2 1 1 8 9 19 50 10 -31
LLANFAIR UTD
7
-25
12
11 36
and after Chapman completed her double, AIRBUS UK BROUGHTON 12 1 0 11 8 51 3 -43
Chrystalla Moreton got them back on level
terms with fifteen minutes remaining but Llandudno 5 Llanfair 1.
injury time goals from Walkley and Manon
Thomas ensured another victory for Ferry. SOUTH DIVISION P W D L F A Pts GD
The league meanwhile has confirmed BRITON FERRY LLANSAWEL 15 14 0 1 69 11 42 58
that the Tier 2 play-off match between CASCADE YC 16 11 1 4 40 26 34 14
PONTARDAWE TOWN 14 7 0 7 36 34 21 2
Wrexham and Briton Ferry Llansawel, with
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY 15 3 2 10 21 42 11 -21
the winner being promoted to the Genero CALDICOT TOWN * 14 0 1 13 13 66 -2 -53
Adfran Premier, will take place at Newtown 0
FC on Sunday 16th April, with a 4.30pm Cascade 3 Briton Ferry 5.
kick off.
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