Kidderminster Harriers Youth 3(3) v (0)1 Quorn Youth

A typical game of two halves saw Harriers record their first win of the season, racing into a three goal lead and then having to soak up a lot of pressure as their opponents tried to get back into the game.

After a slow start in which Quorn's Tom Faulkes had tested Steven Parker with a shot from the edge of the penalty area, Harriers began to take control of the game; Stephen Thompson headed wide from a Jermaine Hollis cross before Harriers took the lead after 18 minutes.  The ball was played in from the right wing to the edge of the penalty area where Ryan Malcolm helped it into the path of Thompson who lifted it over the advancing goalkeeper.

Harriers should have gone further ahead a few minutes later when Danny Hodnett headed Daniel Ludlow's cross over the bar from close range; next Tom Byrne jinked his way into the penalty area only to see his shot saved by the legs of Elliott Shilloam.  The second goal came twelve minutes before the break and followed good work by Byrne who got to the goalline on the right and pulled the ball back to Thompson who turned it in at the near post and then just before the interval Richard Evans picked up the ball midway inside the Quorn half and hit a shot from over 30 yards that Shilloam could only watch helplessly as it sailed past him and into the bottom corner of the net.

At the interval Harriers replaced Parker in goal with Adam Tromans and his first job was to pick the ball out of the net as Matt Langan's long-range lob caught him out after just 25 seconds of the second half.  Midway through the half Quorn had a good shout for a penalty turned down when one of their players went down in the penalty area but the referee waved play on, Jason Medcroft's shot was pushed over the bar for a corner by Tromans and from the corner Lewis Allan headed over the bar.

Harriers weathered the storm and could have increased their advantage in the closing stages with two shots from subsitute Scott Eaton from distance that only missedd the target by a small amount.