There were just three games in the South West Regional Women’s Premier League this weekend but they all had a bearing at both ends of the table.
Leaders, Marine Academy Plymouth Ladies, won their penultimate match of the season 7-0 at second-bottom Bishops Lydeard. Samantha Drewery scored four, taking her one ahead of United’s Lucy Solloway in the race to become the league’s top scorer. Solloway was on target for United in their 2-0 win at Ilminster Town Ladies.
So, M.A.P. are top with 48 points from 19 games. Torquay remain eight points behind with three games in hand, plus they have to visit Manadon on 4th May, though as long as United don’t lose, that won’t necessarily be the title decider.
Sherborne Town Ladies’s chances of staying in the title race rested on an unlikely defeat for M.A.P. and so despite their 5-1 home win over bottom side AFC St Austell, their title tilt is over. But Chloe Snook remains in pole position in the scoring charts after she and Imogen Miller both bagged a brace. Snook leads the way with 21, Drewery with 20, and Solloway alongside Frampton’s Shannon Francis on 19 for the season.
At the bottom of the table, poor AFC St Austell have long since been relegated, but Bishops Lydeard’s fate remains in their own hands. They’re on eight points with three games left, but Poole Town Ladies, who are six points above them have just one match remaining – at home to Lydeard on April 27th. And that game should prove decisive, as Lydeard’s last two games are home and away against St Austell!!!
It could go to the wire at both ends of the South West Regional Women’s Premier League.