EVE THE HAT-TRICK HERO FOR FIVE STAR BLUES
Linfield Women rediscovered their winning touch after hitting five goals without reply past Crusaders Strikers at Midgley Park.
Eve Reilly was the star of the show with a superb hat-trick after opening the scoring on 14 minutes, doubling up just after the half-hour mark and bagging her third in stoppage time.
A Julie Nelson own goal midway through the second half added to Linfield’s lead, with Zoe Knox also getting on the scoresheet late on.
Linfield Women: Currie, McMaster, Sweetlove, Fitzsimmons, Chambers, Halliday, Hampton, Breen, Ferreira, Reilly subs Donnan, Johnston, S. Leckey, McConnell, E. Leckey, Marks, Knox
Crusaders Strikers: Harvey-Clifford, Hamilton, McCann, Beggs, Morgan, Shaw, Mann, Chalmers, McNeill, McLaren, Rea subs Smith, Nelson, Redmond, McMaster, Carlisle, Pollock