Big Black Country derby win for Wolves at the Hawthorns puts them second in the FA Women’s National League Northern Premier Division.
Northern Premier Division
Derby County 1-2 Nottingham Forest (Att: 5,243)
Liverpool Feds 0-6 Stoke City (Att: 131)
Rugby Borough 2-0 Stourbridge (Att: 215)
Sporting Khalsa 4-0 Hull City (Att: 105)
West Bromwich Albion 0-8 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Halifax P-P Burnley
Charlotte Greengrass bagged a brace in either half, as Wolves scored eight times, to remain within a point of leaders Nottingham Forest.
Forest won their own local derby also on the road, 2-1 over Derby County but needed two goals in the last ten minutes. The Rams led from a penalty just before the break, Charlie Wellings turning the game on its head with a dramatic late double.
Rugby Borough beat Stourbridge to go third on goal-difference, Katy Morris’s first-half effort added to by Kelis Barton on 65 minutes.
Stoke City leapfrogged Liverpool Feds on goal-difference, having hit their hosts for six, featuring Tamara Wilcock’s first-half hat-trick.
Sporting Khalsa claimed their first ever points in the division and also got off the foot of the table, following a 4-0 defeat of Hull City.
Southern Premier Division
Hashtag United 2-1 Gwalia United (Att: 79)
AFC Wimbledon 5-0 Milton Keynes Dons (Att: 304)
Billericay Town 2-1 Lewes
Cheltenham Town 0-3 Exeter City
Plymouth Argyle 1-5 Ipswich Town (Att: 873)
Watford 1-2 Oxford United (Att: 201)
Hashtag saw off Gwalia United 2-1 to hold onto their three-point lead at the top. Freda Ayisi got both goals for the hosts, her second shortly after Cori Williams-Mills had equalised for the Welsh side.
Second-placed Oxford United won by the same score at Watford, Ruby Sealey scoring twice in the first period, Anna Silbey giving the Hornets hope with a diving header.
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Ipswich Town ran out 5-1 winners over Plymouth at Home Park, although Leah Mitchell’s headed opener was cancelled out in first half stoppage-time by Charlotte Whitmore. Goals from Charlotte Fleming and Angela Addison put the visitors in control, late additions coming through Maria Boswell and a second from Fleming.
Exeter City scored all three goals of the game at Cheltenham, Sarah Stacey netting on her 100th appearance, Sophie Gillies and Zoe Watkins also finding the net.
Billericay fought back to beat Lewes 2-1 and go fifth in the table. Olivia Carpenter scored just after the interval for the Rooks but Abbi Smith and Ylenia Priest struck to turn the game in the hosts favour around the hour mark.
Wimbledon put five past MK Dons as they rose to seventh position, Cherelle Khassal and Kau’inohea Solomon-Taylor eaching getting a couple of goals.
