Dundee Valkyries women secured their first win in the Arnold Clark Regional Play-Off Series on Sunday.
The Caledonia Midlands East One champions had lost their first two games in the four-team round robin competition, but put in an excellent display at home to defeat Caledonia North One champions Highland 53-17 with a bonus point.
Malou Pelletier (2), Charis Blake, Natalie Cardosi (4), Dani Levins and skipper Jenna Milne scored the Dundee tries with Blake converting four of them.
Captain Milne said: “We performed a lot better than we have been doing of late and I think the team cohesion was a lot better having had two recent competitive games after a long lay-off.
“Our execution was very good when we got into the Highland ’22’ and we were fairly clinical which was a big bonus.”
Winless Highland’s tries came from Elle Briggs and Jessie Bisset with Lorna Young kicking a penalty and two conversions.
“It was another tough game for us against an experienced side, but the girls gave it their all,” Highland captain Amy Brown said.
“Our players who are quite new to this level showed real promise.”
Wigtownshire and Garioch lead the way in this competition with 12 points apiece with the winner by mid-April securing a Premiership spot for next season.
This event, the Sarah Beaney Cup and other women’s domestic competitions continue this coming weekend.
- There will be two Irish versus Welsh semi-finals on the weekend of March 21 in the women’s Celtic Challenge competition.
After Glasgow Warriors last four hopes were dashed when Edinburgh Rugby beating them 22-17 at the death last Friday night Scottish interest in the six-team competition ended.
All that was left to firm up over the weekend as the regular season fixtures came to an end was the top four placings and Wolfhounds beat Clovers 43-20 with a bonus point on Saturday and then Brython Thunder edged out Gwalia Lightning 7-0 on Sunday.
It meant that the final standings were: Wolfhounds 45 points, Clovers 39, Gwalia 25, Brython 23, Glasgow 17 and Edinburgh 12.
Now two-time defending champions Wolfhounds will host Brython in one semi with Clovers taking on Gwalia in the other one.
The final is to be played at Hive Stadium in Edinburgh on March 28.
Dundee Valkyries are pictured after the Highland match – thanks to the club