Thousands see AFC Bournemouth Women go up and Ipswich Town go top | OneFootball

Tammi George (7 Wolves) celebrates opening the scoring against West Brom at Molineux Stadium. (Natalie Mincher/SPP)

Ipswich Town go top of FA Women’s National League Southern Premier in front of over 10,000, AFC Bournemouth secure promotion watched by 7,000.

Northern Premier Division

Halifax 1-2 Liverpool Feds Hull City 1-1 Sporting Khalsa (Att: 196) Stourbridge 0-5 Rugby Borough (Att: 86) Wolverhampton Wanderers 5-0 West Bromwich Albion (Att: 3,214)

Wolves won the Black Country derby with five different scorers to cut Nottingham Forest’s lead at the top to two points, but having played a game more.

Hull City and Sporting Khalsa drew as they both edged closer to safety, with bottom two Stourbridge and Halifax losing again.

Southern Premier Division

Exeter City 2-1 Cheltenham Town (Att: 851) Gwalia United 2-0 Hashtag United (Att: 100) Ipswich Town 3-1 Plymouth Argyle (Att: 10,807) Lewes 3-0 Billericay Town (Att: 462) Milton Keynes Dons 0-3 AFC Wimbledon (Att: 800) Oxford United 0-0 Watford (Att: 612)

Ipswich went top with two games in hand, after they beat Plymouth 3-1 and Hashtag were defeated at Gwalia. Sophie Peskett scored two and made the other for the Tractor Girls, Argyle had Panagiota Papaioannou sent off on 80 minutes.

Exeter’s win over Cheltenham was secured with a Maya Kendell goal, as they moved within three points of second-placed Hashtag.

Watford stay goal-difference ahead of Oxford after a goalless draw there.

Division 1 Midlands

Lincoln United 0-1 Peterborough United (Att: 115) Loughborough Lightning 3-0 Barnsley Women (Att: 90) Northampton Town 12-0 Lincoln City Notts County 2-3 Boldmere St Michaels Worcester City 2-3 Sutton Coldfield Town (Att: 173) Leafield Athletic 7-1 Solihull Moors (Att: 80)

Wins for all the top four left just the three points between them, Loughborough still top and with games in hand on Northampton, Peterborough and Leafield, whose Evie Gallop grabbed a 13-minute treble. The Cobblers netted a dozen times in relegating Lincoln City, with Jade Bell getting a triple hat-trick. Lauren Da’Casto got a late winner for Sutton Coldfield at Worcester.

Loughborough Lightning v Barnsley Women. (Photo: Andy Smith)

Division 1 North

Barnsley FC 3-2 Leeds United (Att: 367) Cheadle Town Stingers 2-1 Norton & Stockton Ancients (Att: 76) Chorley 4-1 Stockport County (Att: 105) Doncaster Rovers Belles 1-1 AFC Fylde (Att: 122) Durham Cestria 1-2 Middlesbrough (Att: 147) York City 1-2 Huddersfield Town

Chorley go for goal against Stockport County. (Photo: John Shirras)

Cheadle remain top by a margin of three on goal-difference after both they and Middlesbrough won 2-1, Imogen Porteous-Williams with a double for the Stingers. Chorley’s victory sees them still six points behind the leading pair and with a game in hand. Doncaster and Fylde drew after Belles levelled with a Jasmine Saxton penalty and stay in the relegation zone with only two games left each.

Division 1 South East

Ashford Town 0-6 Chatham Town Cambridge United 2-4 AFC Sudbury (Att: 402) Chesham United 0-4 Real Bedford (Att: 85) Dulwich Hamlet 0-1 Queens Park Rangers (Att: 663) London Seaward 0-6 Actonians (Att: 62) Norwich City 2-1 London Bees (Att: 320)

Real Bedford took another step towards the title with all four goals at Chesham, Norwich kept up the chase with a comeback 2-1 win over fourth-placed London Bees. Chatham hit Ashford Town for six in sending them down, Lottie Sharp scoring three times.

Division 1 South West

Bridgwater United 1-2 Keynsham Town (Att: 45) Abingdon United 2-1 Worthing AFC Bournemouth 2-0 Bristol Rovers (Att: 7,076) Maidenhead United 0-2 Swindon Town (Att: 33) Moneyfields 1-1 Bournemouth Sports

AFC Bournemouth are champions after beating Bristol Rovers 2-0 at the Vitality Stadium ,with their 18th straight league win of the campaign.

Mollie Dyer and Molly Lygo-Jackson scored for Abingdon United in the dying minutes in beating Worthing.

Swindon won at Maidenhead despite having Sahara Osborne-Ricketts sent off in the first half, when they were two up.

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