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Hillhead/Jordanhill and Stirling County remain unbeaten after the second round of fixtures in the Tennent's Women's Premier League.
With domestic women’s rugby in this country to be reshaped from 2019 - Cup competitions will be played from March culminating at the end of April, sevens competitions will keep their traditional place in the calendar in May and June and then league fixtures will kick-off in August and run until the beginning of December - this year’s top flight campaign is short and sharp.
And on Friday evening last year’s champions Hills made it two wins from two with a 42-7 away win against Cartha Queens Park.
While her sister Louise was in Russia performing well with the Scotland Sevens team, Siobhan McMillan was leading the way for Hills with a hat-trick of tries.
Stella Kyalikunda, Jenny Johnstone and Juliet Ross also crossed with Amanda Jane kicking all six conversions.
Hillhead/Jordanhill coach Aird Jardine said: “Cartha gave us a very tough game.
“However, after the first 10 minutes the ladies upped their game and work rate and put in a huge shift in defensively and in attack to get the win.
“The forwards dominated and there were a lot of pleasing aspects in the game, but there is still got a lot to work on for the next match against Annan.”
Cartha put in a gutsy showing and their try came from Christine Belisle with Louise Smith converting.
And Stirling County also have two bonus point wins from two after they backed up their opening victory at Annan with a thrilling triumph over Watsonians on Sunday.
In the end County bounced back from a slow start to come out on top 24-21 in the contest of the season to date at Bridgehaugh.
The home side’s four tries came from Katie McIlwraith, Rhonwyn Spence, Siobhan Cattigan and Andrea Gaffney with Heather Davis kicking two conversions.
County captain Rachel Shankland said: “There was a big crowd in attendance to cheer us on and It was a hard fought and intense match.
“Watsonians led the way in the first half, but the fitness and skill levels of our team gave us a chance and we kept going to come through tis entertaining game in the end.”
The visitors tries - as they picked up a losing bonus point - came from Molly Wright, Anna Forsyth and Emily Cotterill. Lana Skeldon kicked three conversions.
“We had the better of the first half, but County upped things after the break,” said coach Dave Flynn.
“We lacked a bit of composure towards the end when we had some chances, but a good advert for women’s rugby in this country.”
Also on Sunday Corstorphine Cougars played their first home game of the campaign and defeated Annan 62-5.
Vanessa Hagen was the star of the show with four tries for the Edinburgh outfit with Leanne Neary and Caitlin Harvey both going over twice.
Gillian Inglis scored one try with Kiyomi Honjigawa having a great day with a try and six conversions.
Assistant coach Lorna Murdoch said: “It was a physical game, but when we were able to recycle fast ball we played our best rugby.
“It was a positive performance and some newer players managed to get some game time.”
Annan’s try came from Abbie Clark while Jane Stewart’s amazing streak of scoring in 26 consecutive league games came to an end.
“The steep learning curve for us after promotion continued against a good Corstorphine side,” Annan coach Colin Warrick stated.
“However, we improved from the first week and will look to keep doing so.”
Meanwhile, with Wanderers Women’s future still being sorted out they went to Stewartry and played a friendly.
For league purposes Stewartry were handed a 28-0 victory.
Tennent's Women's Premier League fixtures for week three (September 9, all 2pm)
Watsonians v Wanderers Women
Hillhead/Jordanhill v Annan
Stirling County v Stewartry
Corstorphine Cougars v Cartha Queens Park
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