Harriers make it four wins in a row

Kidderminster Harriers will go into Saturday's final pre-season friendly at Rugby Town on the back of four wins after another victory at Hinckley.

Harriers ran out 2-0 winners at the Greene King Stadium last night against their Blue Square North opponents, who play in the league below.

Goals from Lee Vaughan and Nick Wright saw off the challenge of the Knitters in a close game, with the Blue Square Premier visitors clinical when it mattered.

There was just three minutes on the clock when Vaughan, who blasted home a penalty against Shrewbury last week, tapped in after Marc Williams had broke clear and squared the ball across the face of goal.

And Harriers put the result beyond doubt with six minutes to go through Wright, who fired a shot through a crowd of bodies and into the net.

The second goal had been coming, as Robert Thompson-Brown had an effort chalked off for offside two minutes earlier, but Harriers were made to work for the win.

Another victory adds to successes over Northwich, Shrewsbury, a young Wolves team and now Hinckley, with the visit to Evo-Stik League Southern opposition on Saturday left to go in pre-season.

Assistant manager Gary Whild took the team last night but boss Steve Burr will be back for the game at the Valley and is likely to receive a positve report from his No 2.

Whild said: "It was a bit different to the Wolves game in that we got off to a very good start and perhaps could then have moved the ball a bit better.

"At the end of the day, it was another good exercise in terms of working hard and everybody has had decent time on the pitch again.

"We have said we still have a lot of work to do and this game was part of it."

Harriers did not risk striker Steve Guinan, who suffered a head wound against Wolves, and Jack Cresswell, after the defender pulled up in the warm-up, last night.