Striker Dale Taylor signed off his loan spell with Wigan Athletic in style by scoring his eleventh and final goal of the season as the Latics rounded off their League One campaign with a 1-1 draw at Northampton Town.
With Athletic a goal down, the 21-year-old, on a season-long loan from Nottingham Forest, struck in the sixth minute of injury time to secure the visitors a point at the Sixfields Stadium.
Meanwhile, Shayne Lavery, who has missed the majority of the season with injury, scored a consolation goal for already relegated Cambridge United in their 2-1 home defeat to runaway League One champions Birmingham City.
Leyton Orient duo Ethan Galbraith and Jamie Donley both managed assists as the south-London confirmed their place in the League One play-off’s with a thumping 4-1 victory at Huddersfield Town.
Orient will play the first leg of their semi-final at home to Stockport County next Saturday with the return game taking place at Edgeley Park Wednesday 14th May.
In the Scottish Premiership, Ronan Hale was on target for Ross County to record his fourteenth goal of the campaign as the Dingwell sides hopes of avoiding the relegation play-off’s took a dent following a 3-1 home reverse to Hearts.
Former Larne striker Lee Bonis ended his eight-match barren run in front of goal by scoring, and chalking up an assist, in Den Hagg’s 4-3 home defeat to Cambuur, a result that sees ADO now fall to fourth spot in the table a point behind their weekend’s opponents with just one game remaining.
There was good news for international boss Michael O’Neill as Daniel Ballard returned from injury to be used as a substitute in Sunderland’s 1-0 home defeat to QPR on Saturday.
Black Cats defender Trai Hume, who has just been named both Club and Player’s Player of the Year, admitted after the game they need to be fully focused on their Championship play-off semi-final against Coventry City on Friday after suffering five straight league defeats.
“We have the most important game of our season now, and it’s up to us to get ready,” said Hume, “We’ve lost a lot of games recently and haven’t created too many chances, but these next two games are like cup finals.
“Coventry are a very good side, but it’s a Play-Off semi-final and we want to win. It doesn’t matter who we’re playing - you have to go out there like it’s a cup final and win the games.”
Elsewhere, there was disappointment for Simone Magill, Rebecca Holloway, Rebecca McKenna and Ellie Mason as Birmingham City Women failed to gain automatic promotion from the Championship to the WSL after only drawing 2-2 at home to London City Lionesses.
The Midland’s outfit needed a victory over yesterday’s opponents to seal their promotion to the top flight, but despite coming back from 2-0 down, they just fell short with London City Lionesses clinching top spot by two points.
In the SWPL1, Lauren Wade was on the scoresheet for Hearts Women with her first goal for the club since January as they lost the Edinburgh derby 3-1 to Hibs.
Finally, Braiden Graham scored his tenth goal of the season for Everton U18’s as they completed their league campaign with a 3-0 victory over their fierce rivals Liverpool.
