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PICTURES: Elgin City women's football team thrash Grampian Ladies to move up to second spot in Scottish Women's Football League North





Elgin City women marched up to second spot in Scottish Women's Football League North with a resounding win on Sunday.

Elgin City's Alexa Mann (centre) is congratulated after opening the scoring. ..Elgin City Women (7) vs Grampian Ladies (0) - SWFL North 2023/24 - Gleaner Arena, Elgin 25/02/24...Picture: Daniel Forsyth..
Elgin City's Alexa Mann (centre) is congratulated after opening the scoring. ..Elgin City Women (7) vs Grampian Ladies (0) - SWFL North 2023/24 - Gleaner Arena, Elgin 25/02/24...Picture: Daniel Forsyth..

City welcomed a Grampian Ladies team sitting above them in the table to Gleaner Arena, and produced a strong performance to win the match 7-0.

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Darcy Matheson and Alexa Mann, two players who stepped up to senior football with Elgin from Moray Girls, rose to the occasion by scoring a hat-trick apiece.

City got off to a great start, scoring twice in the opening ten minutes.

See Daniel Forsyth's pictures from the match below.

Mann, one of seven players recruited from Moray Girls in December, fired home the opener on five minutes.

Former Moray team-mate Matheson quickly added a second before Lauryn Nigh went round the Grampian keeper to make it 3-0 on 23 minutes.

Mann's second on 33 minutes took the scoreline to 4-0, and it stayed that way to half time.

Matheson got her own second four minutes after the break and Elgin kept pressing forward for more goals.

On 65 minutes Mann got her third, a feat matched by Matheson on 82 minutes.

City could even afford the luxury of a Sarah Westwood missed penalty in the second half.

Elgin team: Kennedy, Scott, MacDonald (Currie 80), Mitchell, Ross (Leslie 80), Mann (Hubbard 80), Nigh, Sewell, Morrison, Matheson, Westwood (Doherty 66). Subs: Gourlay, Craig, Main.


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