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Arsenal Ladies FC have won the GulfWeekly Bahrain Ladies Football League title with a hard-earned victory over last season’s champions Venus.
The Ladies have a 100 per cent record with one game to go, having scored 26 goals and conceded only four.
The team, made up of Bahraini, European and American women, has combined well to win the title in style.
It was perhaps fitting that Deena Rahman, the brainchild behind the competition, scored a brace in the game that secured the championship in its 10th season.
Going in to the break 1-0 down after an own goal, the Ladies resumed with the wind behind them with much purpose, scoring three goals in nine minutes, including a stunning strike by Lorna Milligan, her first in three years, from open play.
It would be fair to say that having spent the previous seasons stopping goals, Lorna was not sure how to celebrate her achievement!
In the night’s other match, the Arsenal U21s kept up their outside chance of second spot with a fine win against RCSI, revenging their defeat from earlier in the season.
Teddy Walton opened the scoring, which was added to by an own goal, and a fantastic strike from Latifa Al Khalifa. Maryam AL Haji replied for RCSI, but the youngsters ran out 3-1 victors.
This week sees the U21s trying to beat champions and club-mates Arsenal Ladies to secure second spot, but if Venus can overcome Seef Dental, they will be league runners-up.
Congratulations to the worthy winners of the GulfWeekly-sponsored league – Arsenal Ladies, namely Rama Salem, Sam Rule, Melissa Gut, Deena Rahman, Fatin Alawi Gemma Stollery, Janet Kellagher, Lorna Milligan, Reema Al Qassab, Eleni Tsappis, Kajysa Svensson, Aysha Al Kooheji, Alaa Alawi, Nada Al Saeed and Linda Tran.
The trophy presentations will take place on the December 10, when the league winners will play against a selected ‘team of the season’, made up of the players nominated each week as the ‘girl of the game’.
