Sunday 9th April
FA PREMIER LEAGUE
NORTHERN DIVISION
Bradford City 2-1 West Bromwich Albion (Att: 68)
Derby County 0-4 Blackburn Rovers (Att: 80)
Leicester City Women 2-1 Nottingham Forest (Att: 108)
Middlesbrough 4-2 Huddersfield Town (Att:90)
Newcastle United 1-4 Stoke City
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Coventry United 2-2 Cardiff City Ladies
Crystal Palace 5-0 C&K Basildon (Att: 137)
Lewes 0-2 Charlton Athletic (Att: 236)
Portsmouth 1-4 Tottenham Hotspur (Att: 101)
MIDLANDS DIVISION 1
Loughborough Students P-P Radcliffe Olympic
Rotherham United 1-9 Loughborough Foxes (Att: 18)
Solihull 1-2 Sporting Khalsa (Att: 40)
Steel City Wanderers 4-2 Leicester City Ladies (Att: 65)
Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Long Eaton United (Att: 40)
NORTHERN DIVISION 1
Brighouse Town 1-0 Tranmere Rovers (Att: 31)
Guiseley Vixens 1-0 Chester le Street Town (Att: 20)
Morecambe 0-4 Liverpool Marshalls Feds (Att; 25)
SOUTH EAST DIVISION 1
AFC Wimbledon 4-0 Enfield Town
Lowestoft Town 0-2 Cambridge United (Att: 46)
Luton Town 1-3 Actonians (Att: 35)
Milton Keynes Dons 1-2 Gillingham (Att: 55)
Norwich City 0-0 Stevenage (Att: 42)
SOUTH WEST DIVISION 1
Chichester City 3-0 Plymouth Argyle (Att: 182)
Exeter City 2-2 Cheltenham Town (Att: 39)
Larkhall Athletic 1-1 Keynsham Town (Att: 50)
Southampton Saints 5-0 Shanklin
St Nicholas 1-2 Maidenhead United (Att: 30)
Northern Division: Contrasting Fortunes For North East Pair
Champions Blackburn remained unbeaten with a 4-0 victory at Derby. Ella Toone scored twice after one from Saffron Jordan and Ellie Cook’s first half effort.
After promotion last season, Middlesbrough sealed the runners-up spot with a 4-2 result over Huddersfield. Bianca Owens bagged a brace for Boro, Emily Scarr and Jess Havelock one each, with the Terriers’ Kate Mallin having twice levelled from the spot.
Stoke are fourth following a 4-1 win at Newcastle, which condemned their hosts to last place. Millie Elson and Jamilla Palmer put the Potters two up before Becca Hansen pulled one back. Kate Asher sealed the points with a brace in the last 10 minutes.
Leicester won the East Midlands derby 2-1 over Nottingham Forest. Sophie Domingo scored 4 minutes in and doubled her tally on the half-hour mark. Forest’s Andi Bell won and converted a penalty but with only 3 minutes left.
Middlesbrough – Northern Division runners-up at the first attempt
Southern Division: Tottenham Three Wins From Title
While Spurs ran out 4-1 winners at Portsmouth, their two main title rivals cancelled each other out. Wendy Martin, Kelley Blancflower and Bianca Baptiste saw Tottenham in 3-0 up at half-time, Gemma Hillier replied but Lucia Leon rounded off the scoring. Three wins from five will now see Karen Hills’ side into the Championship play-off with Blackburn.
Cardiff let a 2-0 lead slip at Coventry for a 2-2 tie that does neither’s championship hopes any good. Alison Hall halved the deficit before Laura Cooper volleyed in the equaliser late on.
Second-placed Charlton came through 2-0 at Lewes in front of the day’s biggest crowd. They had to wait until the last 15 minutes for any goals, when both Gemma Shepherd and Kit Graham struck for the Addicks.
High fives for Crystal Palace as visitors CK Basildon were sent home beaten 5-0. The Eagles got off the a flying start with three goals in 15 minutes from Pam McRoberts, May Robinson and Gemma Bryan, the latter adding two more in the last few minutes for her hat-trick.
Wolves after their narrow victory
Midlands Division 1: Leaders Lash In Nine
Loughborough Foxes thrashed Rotherham 9-1, although their opening goal did bring a swift equaliser from the Millers. But it was 4-1 by the break and more goals followed at regular intervals in the second half. Charlotte Cooper got three goals, Becky Knight two, one each from Chloe Young, Becky Matlock, Siobhan Eastham and Laura Steele.
Wolves kept up their hopes with a single-goal defeat of Long Eaton, Jenny Anslow scoring after 11 minutes.
Third-placed Sporting Khalsa won narrowly over Solihull despite initially going behind to a Sam White effort.
Leicester City Ladies stay in the drop zone after a 4-2 loss at Steel City, who were 2-1 up at the interval.
Northern Division 1: Guiseley Bouncing Back Up?
With only four more points needed from five games, surely Guiseley are going straight back up. One goal just before the break from Olivia Thackray was enough for the Vixens to defeat Chester le Street.
Liverpool Feds’ 4-0 win at Morecambe sees them pressing hard to match last year’s second place. Abby Pope’s early goal was added to in the second period by Carina Mendes, Nicole Johnston and Nadia Trampnow, while Natalie Clark her her penalty saved.
While Brighhouse went sixth with a 1-0 defeat of Tranmere courtesy of a Charlotte Proud goal, for Rovers it meant relegation.
Action from Wimbledon’s win over Enfield. (@MikeyTheTowner)
South East Division 1: Gills Getting Close
Gillingham took a big step towards promotion with a 2-1 victory at main title rivals MK Dons. Fliss Gibbons got the first and Vanisha Patel the second on 50 minutes, with Heather McDonnell replying with a deflected free-kick.
Wimbledon are up to second after a 4-0 scoreline at home to Enfield. Kelly-Jade Whelan gave the Dons an interval lead, Rebecca Sargent doubled the lead and then Katie Stanley netted twice in a four-minute spell.
Fourth-placed Cambridge sent basement side Lowestoft to a 2-0 reverse. Emma Jenkins broke the deadlock from 25 yards on half-time and 10 minutes from the end crossed for Sarah Wiltshire to head home.
Actonians moved five points clear of Luton by beating the Hatters 3-1 in the mid-table meeting. Jung and a Barreca brace had the West London side three up at half-time, Amy Summerfield then got one back.
Norwich and Stevenage ended goalless, with the Canaries still having to make the most of games in hand to escape the drop.
Action from Chichester versus Plymouth. (@weemack57)
South West Division 1: Chichester Extend Lead
Chichester were 3-0 winners in the top of the table clash with Plymouth. Charley Wilson-Blakely, Cherelle Khassal and Chloe Dowdell got on the scoresheet for City.
Keynsham are a point behind Argyle after a 1-1 all-Somerset draw at Larkhall.
Southampton Saints rose to fourth with five goals past Shanklin.
Maidenhead’s 2-1 victory at St Nicholas moved them within four points of their hosts.
Exeter claimed a third point of the season in a 2-2 tie with Cheltenham. Sarah Hill gave the Grecians the lead, Ella Hitchcox and Sally Butterfield turned the game around for Town but Kate Finch squared it for City.
