Hibernian moved top of the Scottish Premier League with a comfortable 3-0 win over basement side Dundee at Easter Road yesterday.

Leigh Griffiths had already come close for the home side before Eoin Doyle headed a Paul Cairney cross past Rab Douglas in the 29th minute.

Hibernian were awarded a 51st minute penalty when Cairney was fouled in the box with Griffiths calmly dispatching his spot-kick.

David Wotherspoon sealed the win with a superb 74th-minute strike when he played a one-two with Doyle and curled a shot into the corner of the net.

St Johnstone manager Steve Lomas celebrated being named manager of the month by leading his side to a 2-1 win over St Mirren at McDiarmid Park.

The home side went ahead when Nigel Hasselbaink slipped the ball home in the 22nd minute before they doubled their lead when Murray Davidson tapped home from a Gary Miller cross from the right with 37 minutes gone

St Mirren came back into it through a 49th minute Lewis Guy strike, but couldn’t find a leveller.

Aberdeen moved up to third as they came from behind at Kilmarnock to earn their first back-to-back Scottish Premier League wins this season.

Meanwhile, Motherwell’s match with Dundee United was abandoned after kick-off was delayed due to a power failure.

Electricity went down in parts of Motherwell just before the game was due to start.

And the Fir Park club were powerless to do anything except call off the match, said chief executive Leeann Dempster.

“The problem is not in the stadium. There has been a major power failure in North Lanarkshire and we’ve been caught up in that,” she said.

“We are frustrated. We have generators which give us emergency power, to enable us to evacuate the stadium, but it’s not enough to run a full match, I’m afraid.”

Champions Celtic could return to the top of the table on Sunday when they host Hearts at Parkhead.

Premier League
Hibernian 3 - Dundee 0
Kilmarnock 1 - Aberdeen 3
Motherwell p - Dundee Utd p
St Johnstone 2 - St Mirren 1


P W D L F A Pts
Hibernian 9 4 3 2 15 12 15
Celtic 7 4 2 1 13 7 14
Aberdeen 9 3 5 1 11 8 14
St Johnstone 9 4 2 3 11 11 14
Motherwell 8 3 4 1 13 10 13
Kilmarnock 9 3 3 3 13 11 12
St Mirren 9 3 3 3 15 14 12
Inverness 9 2 5 2 18 17 11
Hearts 8 2 3 3 9 9 9
Ross County 9 1 5 3 8 11 8
Dundee Utd 7 2 2 3 7 10 8
Dundee 9 1 1 7 3 16 4

Playing today
Celtic vs Hearts - 13.45

Division One
Airdrie 0 - Hamilton 4
Falkirk 2 - Dunfermline 2
Livingston 1 - Cowdenbeath 1
Morton 3 - Partick 1
Raith 2 - Dumbarton 2

Division Two
Arbroath 3 - Brechin 1
Ayr United 2 - Albion 1
Forfar 2 - Alloa 3
S’housemuir 3 - East Fife 0
Stranraer 0 - Q’of the South 2

Division Three
Montrose 3 - East Stirling 1
Peterhead 1 - Berwick 0
Stirling Albion 1 - Rangers 0

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