Sunday 8th January
FA PREMIER LEAGUE
NORTHERN DIVISION
Fylde 6-1 Huddersfield Town
SOUTHERN DIVISION
Crystal Palace 6-1 West Ham United
MIDLANDS DIVISION 1
Birmingham & West Midlands 5-0 Loughborough Students
Sporting Khalsa 4-2 Rotherham United
Steel City Wanderers 4-10 Loughborough Foxes
The New Saints 8-2 Leicester City Ladies
NORTHERN DIVISION 1
Blackpool Wren Rovers P-P Guiseley AFC Vixens
Chorley 4-1 Crewe Alexandra
Mossley Hill 2-5 Leeds
Tranmere Rovers 0-1 Morecambe
SOUTH EAST DIVISION 1
Ipswich Town 0-1 Actonians
Luton Town 3-2 Denham United
Stevenage 1-0 Norwich City
SOUTH WEST DIVISION 1
Brislington P-P Exeter City
Cheltenham Town 2-1 Basingstoke Town
Chichester City 14-0 Shanklin
Southampton Saints 6-2 Larkhall Athletic
Fylde (pictured top) edge into third place in the Northern Division on goal-difference after hitting Huddersfield for six with some clinical finishing. Katie Anderton’s volley was added to by Alice Forshaw and Hannah Forster before the break. Yasmine Swarbrick added another 10 minutes after the restart, Forster and Anderton then doubling their tallies, while there was a consolation goal from Kate Mallin.
Crystal Palace posted a similar scoreline against West Ham which sees them make up some ground on the Southern Division’s top four. Gemma Bryan hit a hat-trick, Roschelle Shakes a brace and Ciara Sherwood the Eagles’ other goal, Charlotte Gurr getting one back for the Hammers.
Loughborough Foxes moved 8 points clear in Midlands Division 1 with an extraordinary 10-4 scoreline at Steel City Wanderers.
Sporting Khalsa took back second place from Wolves with a 4-2 result over Rotherham in which they twice fought back from a goal behind before netting twice more in the last 10 mintes.
Birmingham & West Midlands rise two places to fifth in the Midlands with a 5-0 win against lowly Loughborough Students. Leah Seivwright’s goal was the only difference between the sides halfway through before she added a couple more, while Jodie McDonagh and Justine Buckmire also found the net.
Plenty of goals too as The New Saints held fourth spot when sinking 8-2 Leicester City Ladies 8-2.
Chorley went 3 points clear at the top of Northern Division 1 having defeated Crewe 4-1, against whom they led 3-0 by the interval.
Leeds won 5-2 at basement side Mossley Hill to move level on points with Liverpool Feds in fourth. Veatriki Sarri and Harriet Jakeman got two goals each, Matina Petkova the other for the visitors.
Morecambe climed to eighth with the only goal at Tranmere, who remain next to bottom.
Actonians’ 1-0 success at Ipswich Town with a second half goal took them to within three points of South East top team Cambridge United.
Luton edged the mid-table meeting with Denham by the odd goal in five to go fifth, despite having Mollie Robinson sent off. Jodie Bellinger, Erica Byron and Lucy Webster scored for the Hatters, United then pulling two goals back.
Stevenage (pictured above) claimed their first ever FAWPL victory at the twelfth attempt, Kristina O’Connell’s 65th-minute effort being enough to beat Norwich City and lift them out of the drop zone.
It was top versus bottom in the South West as Chichester City thumped Shanklin 14-0 to go 4 points clear. Charley Wilson-Blakely led the way with six, Chloe Dowdell’s five included an eight-minute hat-trick, Rebecca Barron contributing twice.
Southampton Saints leapfrogged Larkhall into third after hitting them 6-2, although it was all square at half-time with two goals apiece.
Cheltenham’s 2-1 win over Basingstoke not only lifted them over their visitors but up three places to seventh. Ella Hitchcox and Ria Salleh were the hosts’ scorers, Charlie Powell netting for the visitors.
