Rangers are now just a goal ahead of Celtic at the top of the Scottish Women’s Premier League after a narrow win over Hibernian, while the Hoops scored seven.
SWPL 1
Celtic 7-0 Glasgow Women
Hamilton Academical 0-6 Glasgow City
Hearts 3-0 Aberdeen
Hibernian 0-1 Rangers
Motherwell 2-2 Spartans
Partick Thistle 1-0 Dundee United
A Tessel Middag free-kick was enough to give Rangers the points away to Hibs with a seventh successive victory, but they came dangerously close to conceding a late equaliser more than once.
Celtic sank Glasgow Women 7-0 but had to wait for the breakthrough, with Lucy Ashworth-Clifford netting twice close to half-time.
Glasgow City are a third side on maximum points from seven games after hitting hosts Hamilton for six. The game featured a hat-trick of penalties by Lauren Davidson.
Hearts beat Aberdeen 3-0 but sit nine points back in fourth place, Vya Sampson ad Ciara Grant were among the goals, the latter from 25 yards.
Motherwell had a mid-table draw with Spartans, after fighting back from 2-0 down. Kaela McDonald-Nguah converted two penalties, after Becky Galbraith and Katherine Smart had scored for the visitors.
Partick Thistle got the only goal of the game with Dundee United to leapfrog them in the table. Cara Henderson fired them in front but the post came to their rescue in the last ten minutes, as Danni McGinley’s spot-kick came back off the upright.
SWPL 2
East Fife 1-1 Queen’s Park
Montrose 3-2 Boroughmuir Thistle
St Johnstone 0-0 Kilmarnock
Stirling University 0-3 Gartcairn
Gartcairn won 3-0 at Stirling University to lead the table by two points, Caitlin Moran, Dionne Brown and Ami Robertson with the goals.
Montrose went second with as London Pollard’s first-half double led to a 3-2 defeat of Boroughmuir Thistle, overtaking St Johnstone who were held 0-0 at home by Kilmarnock.
East Fife had been on course for a first win of the campaign, until Queen’s Park equalised with eight minutes to go via a Taylor Davies’ cross.
