Sunday 26th February
FA PREMIER LEAGUE
NORTHERN DIVISION
Huddersfield Town 2-2 Stoke City (Att: 87)
Leicester City Women 2-1 Derby County (Att: 103)
West Bromwich Albion 0-4 Middlesbrough (Att: 50)
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Coventry United 3-1 Lewes (Att: 76)
Queens Park Rangers 0-6 Charlton Athletic (Att: 53)
Swindon Town 2-2 West Ham United (Att: 55)
MIDLANDS DIVISION 1
Birmingham & West Midlands 4-2 Solihull (Att: 20)
Leicester City Ladies 1-3 Radcliffe Olympic (Att: 8)
Rotherham United 0-2 Long Eaton United (Att: 25)
Steel City Wanderers 1-3 The New Saints (Att: 31)
Wolverhampton Wanderers P-P Loughborough Foxes
NORTHERN DIVISION 1
Brighouse Town 3-2 Chorley (Att: 41)
Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Hull City (Att: 28)
Leeds P-P Liverpool Marshalls Feds
Morecambe 3-0 Blackpool Wren Rovers (Att: 15)
Mossley Hill Athletic P-P Guiseley Vixens
Tranmere Rovers 0-2 Chester le Street Town (Att: 35)
SOUTH EAST DIVISION 1
Actonians P-P Ipswich Town
Cambridge United 1-1 AFC Wimbledon (Att: 90)
Gillingham 2-0 Denham United (Att: 80)
Lowestoft Town 0-1 Stevenage (Att: 40)
Luton Town 3-1 Norwich City (Att: 44)
Milton Keynes Dons 1-0 Enfield Town (Att: 70)
SOUTH WEST DIVISION 1
Basingstoke Town 0-5 Chichester City (Att: 20)
Brislington P-P Cheltenham Town
Exeter City 2-5 St Nicholas (Att: 20)
Maidenhead United 0-1 Larkhall Athletic
Shanklin 0-7 Keynsham Town (Att: 18)
Northern Division – Leicester third after late goals
Middlesbrough cut Blackburn’s lead in the North to 6 points – albeit from 3 games more – with a 4-0 success at West Brom. Boro proved the more clinical, scoring all four goals in the second half. Bianca Owens bagged a brace, Millie Bell and Lindsey Halbrook one each.
Kayleigh Miller gave Leicester the lead against Derby with only 10 minutes to go. Hannah Jones’ cracking volley from 16 yards equalised, only for a last-minute winner to take City up to third.
Huddersfield and Stoke shared four goals in their mid-table meeting. Sarah Dobby’s opener for the Terriers saw the Potters hit back through Kate Asher and Ashleigh Hayes but Kate Mallin’s 85th-minute free kick went in of the post to make it 2-2.
Southern Division – Charlton hit QPR for six to go top
An Avilla Bergin corner 2 minutes in forced a QPR own-goal and the Addicks were 3-0 up at the break following efforts from Gemma Shepherd and Kit Graham. The same pair scored again after the interval, with keeper Alex Baker saving a QPR spot-kick by Sara Lopez inbetween. With the home team down to ten through injury, Graham completed her hat-trick.
Coventry’s 3-1 defeat of Lewes put them level on points with second-placed Cardiff. Jade Formaston hit the bar for the hosts in the first half, with Nikki Miles breaking the deadlock on 54 minutes. Miles added her second 10 minutes later and Formaston then headed home a Callan Barber corner. Leeta Rutherford pulled one back in a stronger second-half showing from Lewes,
A late West Ham goal earned them a 2-2 tie at Swindon, with both now 2 points above basement side QPR. The home side had scored twice in 4 first-half minutes through Michelle Rich and Chyna Collings, Molly Peters got one back by the break and Whitney Locke struck in the dying minutes.
Midlands Division 1 – Birmingham unbeaten in ten
Birmingham & West Midlands matched second in the table Wolves’ points tally with a 4-2 defeat of Solihull. Shannie Jennings scored from a first-minute free kick, Justine Buckmire and two by Leah Seivwright made it 4-0, before the visitors responded twice.
Radcliffe ran out 3-1 winners at Leicester Ladies, Long Eaton won at Rotherham with goals by Niki Emery and Cara Newton in the first half, while TNS took the points 3-1 at Steel City.
Happiness is going top of the table. (@HullCityLFC)
Northern Division 1 – Tigers takeover
Hull are in pole position with a narrow win at Crewe, thanks to Jo Symington’s wind-assisted cross on 56 minutes. Brighouse downed morning leaders Chorley by the odd goal in five, Cara Mahoney, Charlotte Proud and Jodie Redgrave Town’s scorers.
Morecambe moved level on points with fifth-placed Leeds after sending Blackpool Wren Rovers to a 3-0 defeat, Chester le Street came away from relegation-threatened Tranmere as 2-0 winners.
South East Division 1 – MK Dons and Gills go clear
MK Dons are 4 points clear at the top after a Hannah Barrett goal gave them the win over Enfield. Unbeaten Gillingham are clear in second after defeating Denham with two quick second-half goals by Jenny Newman and Charlotte Gurr. Cambridge and Wimbledon lost a little ground after cancelling each other out. Soon after Katie Stanley’s effort for the Dons flew in, Nicole Perschky replied for the U’s.
Stevenage are 3 points above the drop zone after winning a ‘six-pointer’ at Lowestoft with a goal by Donna McGuigan, Joanne Rutherford got a couple and Lucy Webster the other as Luton beat bottom of the table Norwich, Kyla Love later getting a consolation for the Canaries.
South West Division 1 – Chichester and Keynsham lead away day successes
South West table-topping Chichester were two up in only 10 minutes at Basingstoke, where Cherelle Khassal and Jess Lewry scored early on. Charley Wilson-Blakeley and Kerri Ryan also netted before Lewry got her second and Lauren Cheshire hit a penalty against the Town bar. Keynsham shot seven past Shanklin to go third, Katie Cook’s couple added to by Alys Hinchcliffe, Nadine Grogan, Jade Radburn, Hannah Davies and Justine Lorton-Radburn.
St Nicholas were 3-0 up at Exeter through Adele Hooper (2) and Jodie Arkell and although City hit back through Amber Guy-Kemp and Millie Pearce, Sophie Sweet and Samantha Hollis made sure of the points in a 5-2 scoreline. Larkhall scored right at the death to win by the only goal at Maidenhead.
Pictured top – Charlton celebrations. (David Brenchley / cafcwomen.co.uk)
