Ladies suffer home defeat

A brace from Jessica Curran was not enough as Port Talbot Town Ladies crashed to a 5-3 defeat at home to Caernarfon Town on Sunday at the GenQuip stadium.

Curran netted her first in a frantic opening 16 minutes, which saw Port trail 2-1. Caernarfon would restore their two goal cushion to give themselves a 3-1 lead before half-time.

The hosts started the second-half strongly when Gabi Pughsley replied with a 49th minute, making it added 3-2

Caernarfon asserted themselves once more adding a fourth soon after only for Curran to claim her second, giving the Blues hope of staging a dramatic fight-back.

But hopes of a late Port Talbot resurgence were dashed when Shan Jones added a fifth late on.

Ladies sign off with Aberystwyth win

Port Talbot Town Ladies signed off their year with a 3-0 victory at Aberystwyth on Sunday and move into fourth spot in the Womens’ Welsh Premier League.

The Ladies left it late to seal the three points with Coryn Sexton making the break through inside the final fifteen minutes before late goals from Sian Scanell and Jessica Hare sealed a morale-boosting three points on the road.

The result leaves Port Talbot with a 13 point haul from their opening nine league games and they now break off until mid-January when they return to action with difficult back-to-back fixtures against second-placed Cardiff Met Ladies.

Ladies lose at Wrexham

Port Talbot Town Ladies were handed a 5-1 defeat on Sunday by Wrexham.

The Ladies took an early lead through Courtney Thomas before a penalty on the stroke of half-time saw Wrexham take a 2-1 lead at the break. The hosts then went on to net three more in a miserable second-half for the Blues.

The defeat leaves the Ladies in sixth-place in the Womens’ Welsh Premier League with ten points from eight matches.

Sunday roundup

In the FAW Youth Cup, Port Talbot’s Under-19s were defeated 4-2 by Swansea City, despite a bold showing from Mark Pike’s side.

Despite the wet weather, the game at the GenQuip was given the go ahead but the young Steelmen were unable to prevent themselves from being eliminated at the third round stage.

In the Womens’ Welsh Premier, our Ladies’ side also face Swansea City in the only WWPL fixture to survive the weather.

It took just seven minutes for the Port Talbot Ladies to take the lead, through Jessica Curran’s penalty.

The Swans equalised midway through the first-half but Port Talbot were able to restore their lead soon after through Lucy Edwards, six minutes later, before the Swans again replied in the second period to split the points.

Port Talbot Ladies stunned by late drama

Port Talbot Town Ladies’ suffered a dramatic 4-3 defeat on Sunday in the Womens’ Welsh Premier League.

In one of the three fixtures to survive the weather, Port Talbot travelled to Newcastle Emlyn looking to build on their recent good form. And they seemed destined to return home with the full three points after Jessica Hare fired Port Talbot into a three-goal lead shortly after the restart, adding to first-half goals Coryn Sexton and Jessie Wadey.

Newcastle Emlyn replied through Sharon Llewellyn before two goals in six minutes from Caroline Cooper and Stacey Webber saw the hosts restore parity, with Carrie Shack scoring last-minute winner to leave Port Talbot empty-handed.

The defeat leaves the Ladies 7th in the table ahead of their match against Northop Hall Girls next Sunday at the GenQuip stadium (2pm).

Ladies claim first win in Women’s Welsh Premier League

Port Talbot Town Ladies recorded their first win of the season in emphatic fashion on Sunday, thrashing Caerphilly Castle Ladies 18-0.

In what was their first match of the season at the GenQuip stadium, Courtney Thomas, Sian Scanell and Gaby Pughsley were all in target early on, to give Port Talbot a commanding 3-0 lead inside the opening ten minutes.

Thomas and Pughsley both went on to score four each, along with Alex Thomas, whilst Sian Scannell completed a first-half hat-trick, before Jessica Curran (2) and Gemma Thomas rounded off a dominant display from the Ladies.

Tough start for Ladies’ Welsh Premier campaign

Port Talbot Town Ladies suffered a tough baptism, in their opening fixture of the newly formed Women’s Welsh Premier League, against Cardiff City at the new Leckwith International Sports Stadium. (reports Robert Clement).

Bluebirds striker Lisa Bird was the major threat with four goals, accompanied by a brace from supporting colleague Catherine Walsh.

It took Port Talbot nine minutes to pose a threat with Courteney Thomas setting up Gaby Pughsley, with the attacking defender forcing City keeper Alice Evans into action to push away the goalbound effort.

Regrettably it was Cardiff who moved ahead, with Walsh making the breakthrough with a low struck shot after eighteen minutes.

Midway into the half Port Talbot should have grabbed an equaliser, only for a thirty yard delivery from Sian Scannell to rebound off the crossbar, then with Alex Thomas first to react; it was Lauren Price who intercepted her shot on target.

Just after the half hour Cardiff added a second goal, with a lengthy kick up-field by Evans, which was controlled by Bird for her to then drive in from the edge of the penalty area.

Cardiff increased the tempo during the second half, with Bird registering her hat-trick with two additional goals during a four minute period.