Peterborough Sports sink deeper in the relegation mire after heavy defeat, bad night for Spalding United and Blackstones
Peterborough Sports have sunk deeper into the relegation mire after a 4-0 National League North defeat at Kidderminster Harriers on Tuesday night.
The city side are now next-to-bottom in the table. Sports are only three points from safety, but two of the other sides in the bottom four have multiple games in hand. One of them is Alfreton Town who Sports visit in a must-win game on Saturday (March 14).
Sports signed young Watford defender Ian Kamga on loan before the game, but he was powerless to stop the fourth-placed Harriers who scored twice in each half to record a comfortable win.
Ryley Reynolds, Seb Thompson, Kieran Donnelly and Amari Morgan-Smith scored the goals with Sports barely mustering a shot on goal in response.
Reynolds had already struck the crossbar when he opened the scoring on 22 minutes with smart finish following a David Davis pass.
The Harriers’ doubled their lead on the stroke of half-time as Sports’ ‘keeper Peter Crook’s initial save sent the ball straight back into the path of Thompson who reacted quickest to fire into the bottom far corner.
The hosts added a third minutes into the second half as Donnelly dispossessed Zac Willis inside the box before firing past Crook from a tight angle.
Crook then made a superb save just before Connor Wood two goal-line clearances, but Harriers made it 4-0 15 minutes from time through substitute Morgan-Smith.
Marcel Oakley came closest to scoring for Sports, and giving 20 travelling fans something to cheer, in the final minute, but he was denied by a smart save after a dribble past several defenders.
Sports: Crook, Oakley, Willis, Gash (sub Cadogan, 60 mins), Kamga, Wood, Whitehouse (sub Jarvis, 72 mins), McLintock (sub Miller, 60 mins), Davies, Booth (sub Beresford, 57 mins), Coulthirst (sub Jeffers, 57 mins).
Unused subs: Edwards, Young.
Kidderminster: Dibble, Devine, Kandola (sub Clarke, 73 mins), Obi, Thompson (sub Morgan-Smith, 73 mins), Donnelly (sub, Walker 76 mins), Foulkes (sub Minaka, 76 mins), Evans, Davis (sub Cooper, 73 mins), Reynolds, Bird.
Unused subs: Faakye, Sho-Silva.
Elsewhere Market Harborough knocked Spalding United off the top of the Southern Premier Division Central table after a 3-0 win at Bishop’s Stortford. Harborough are top by two points and still have two games in hand on 'The Tulips.’
And Blackstones remain in big trouble in the United Counties Premier Division North after a 2-0 defeat at Newark & Sherwood United. Stones are just a point above the relegation zone.