Motherwell were unable to continue their unbeaten run as Hibernian claimed three points at K-Park on Sunday.
The Hibees came away with a 2-0 victory with second half goals from Shannon McGregor and Katie Lockwood securing Hibernian’s win of the year.
Motherwell would have the first opening of the game. With a well worked short corner, an opening was created for Katie Rice who seen her shot well saved by the Hibernian keeper.
On the stroke of ten minutes, Hibs had their first shot on target that was stopped by Emily Mutch from a pull back.
Rice lined up a free kick from 25 yards which was saved initially by the keeper, but she couldn’t hold onto the effort and Carla Boyce almost got on the follow up however the keeper eventually gathered at the second attempt.
In a back and forth game, Hibernian looked through on goal on 40 minutes and destined to score, however Emma Lawton slid in at the last second to block the strike and keep the score level going into the half time interval.
As the second half got underway, it was Motherwell who started the brighter. Chelsie Watson’s header went narrowly wide from Rice’s delivery into the box.
Rice again looked to threaten but her long range effort was slightly off target.
With missed chances, Motherwell were made to pay and conceded from the second phase of a Hibernian corner on 65 minutes. Mutch parried the initial corner but the ball fell to McGregor who fired low, past a crowd of Motherwell players to find the bottom corner.
Hibernian made sure of the points with 10 minutes to go, Katie Lockwood finished past Mutch cooly to make it 2-0.
Gill Inglis would take an arm to the face which would spark a reaction on the Hibernian dugout, ending in both managers receiving yellow cards each. The game ended 2-0 with very few chances created towards the latter stages of the game.
