Celtic joined Hibernian and Glasgow City in the Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup quarter-finals after winning away at Spartans.
SWPL Cup results – 1 March
Group A: St Johnstone 3-1 Glasgow Women., Spartans 1-4 Celtic
Group B: Dundee United 5-2 Queens Park, Hamilton Academical 0-3 Rangers
Group C: Boroughmuir Thistle 0-0 Aberdeen, Hearts 2-0 Stirling University
Group D: Partick Thistle 2-2 Kilmarnock. Motherwell 1-2 Forfar Farmington
Celtic won the group decider with Spartans, Summer Green, Sarah Ewens, Kathleen McGovern and Josephine Giard on target with Becky Galbraith replying. St Johnstone got off the mark when defeating Glasgow Women, Ellie-May Cowie’s opener was cancelled out by Karsey McGlinchey’s set-piece but Morgan Steedman converted a penalty and free-kick.
Rangers made it two wins from two with all three goals at Hamilton, Lisa Martinez with a brace and Megan Bell netting in-between. Dundee United’s delayed start to their games brought a 5-2 victory over Queens Park in which there was a second-half 13-minute hat-trick by Tammy Harkin.
Hearts finished their fixtures as group leaders with a 2-0 result over Stirling University but they cannot yet be sure of their final position. Lisa Swanson scored on the rebound from Aisha Maughan’s effort against the bar and Taylor Hamill made sure of the points in the last minute. Boroughmuir Thistle’s competition is over but they did end with a creditable goalless draw against Aberdeen. Francesca Ogilvie hit the bar for the Dons and Chloe Gover put a penalty wide.
Forfar Farmington wait on other results to see if they remain top after finishing with a 2-1 win at Motherwell, Billie Simpson opening her account for the club with a brace. Second-placed Partick Thistle twice led but were held 2-2 by Kilmarnock who ended with ten players. The Jags were ahead through a Suzanne Mulvey penalty and Clare Docherty effort but Monica Harty and a Lauren Chisholm spot-kick levelled the game, Killie then holding out for half-an-hour after a second yellow card for Shelley Campbell.
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