The Women's 1st Team consolidated their fifth place spot in Division 1 on Saturday with a solid, if unspectacular, 3-1 win at Watsonians. Goals from Mhairie Bowie, Kaz Marshall and Rachael Houghton did the damage for Wildcats who now sit on 14 points, six ahead of sixth place Hillhead and just two behind Dundee Wanderers in fourth. The girls travel to Dundee next weekend knowing that a win would see them leapfrog Wanderers into a place in the top four.
The 2s enjoyed an excellent 4-0 victory at home to Blue Sox with Leonie Traynor, Iona McIntyre-Beon, Emma Reid and Amy Mills scoring their goals. Rona Stewart came through her comeback game which will give encouragement to 1st Team coach Kaz Marshall. The 3s can be very pleased with their 2-2 draw with top-of-the-table Argyle.
The Men's 1s had a very poor loss at home to Inverleith on Saturday. Western were 5-0 down at one stage before rallying to 5-3 through Andrew Sinclair (2) and Scott McCartney. They bounced back yesterday, though, with a win at Auchenhowie against Edinburgh University, a team who were playing their sixteenth game in five weeiks (think Saturday-Sunday-Wednesday since the start of term). Frankly, Western should have won by a lot more but goals aren't quite as easy to come by as once they were for our boys and they had to make do with one from Ian Moodie and a double from Scott McCartney.
The 2s were well beaten by a strong Kelburne 2s. It ended up 5-2 with Western's goals coming from Luke Cranney and the Baku-bound Andrew Sewnauth. Not so the 3s, however. They battled their way to a 1-0 win in the rain against Kelburne 3s thanks in no small part to a well-organised and pugnacious rearguard action and a couple of pieces of inspirational goalkeeping from Dave Whiting. Rick Andrew got their goal in one of several dangerous breakaways.
The 4s were given little trouble by East Kilbride at home and ran out 5-1 winners thanks to McConnell (2), McAllister (2) and Moran while the 5s lost 2-1 to Hillhead 6s.