Under 18 cup qualifiers

CALA Edinburgh, Watsonians, Clydesdale and Western Wildcats
progressed into the semi-final stages of the girls under 18
Scottish Cup after coming through the league stages on Sunday.

The contest was keenest at Hutchesons` Grammar School where
Clydesdale finished in pole position from the Wildcats by just two
goals after both teams finished level on seven points.  The
opening game of the day symbolised the closeness of the contest
between the two sides, in the first half Alice McArthur opened the
scoring for the Wildcats only for Fiona Burnet to equalise, there
was no further scoring and the game ended 1-1

Inverleith emerged as a contestant for qualification when they
beat Perthshire 6-0 with doubles each for Lucy Robinson, Sarah
Jamieson and Claire Laverty.  In their next game strikes from
Jamieson and Laverty gave the Edinburgh side a 2-1 lead over the
Western at the interval.  But the Wildcats clawed their way
back into the fray in the second half and emerged 3-2 winners,
McArthur and Katy Devlin finding the net.

Now Inverleith had to beat high-flying Clydesdale, who had just
seen off Perthshire 9-0 in the game before, to have a chance of
qualification.  The Glasgow side looked the stronger and took
the lead through Caitlin Girdwood, Emma McGregor equalised for
Inverleith, but just on the break Fiona Burnett scored with a low
shot at a penalty corner to give Clydesdale a narrow 2-1 half-time
lead.  The balance remained the same when Holly Steiger and
Eilidh Thomson scored for Clydesdale and Inverleith respectively in
less than a minute.  Then Clydesdale`s Caitlin Girdwood
emerged as the heroine of the occasion, her two goals in the
closing seven minutes clinched the result 5-2 and her own
hat-trick.

Western Wildcats sealed their qualification with a nine goal
victory over Perthshire, Alice McArthur notched five, Dani Gibson
got a hat-trick and Radhika Chaudhuri got the other.

At Peffermill Watsonians reached the semi-finals with back to
back victories over CALA Edinburgh 2-1 and Strathallan 5-2. 
CALA took second spot with a 3-0 win over Strathallan in the final
game.

The boy`s competition was diluted with the late withdrawal of
four teams.  Consequently, the remaining sides Watsonians,
Clydesdale, Aberdeen GS, Gordonians and Glenalmond went through to
the quarter finals unopposed.   However, at the Aberdeen
Sports Village, Glenalmond won the tournament on the difference of
a single goal from Aberdeen GS after the two sides fought out a
thrilling 3-3 draw and both beat Gordonians in their other
game.   In the only meaningful contest at Forthbank,
Inverleith emerged top with straight wins against Hillhead (3-1),
Strathallan (2-1) and CALA Edinburgh (5-1).  The other
qualifiers were Strathallan and CALA who both eliminated
Hillhead.

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