Harriers find themselves in the dizzy heights of third in the Conference after recording their fifth consecutive home win, stretching their unbeaten home run to 13 games.

York are the division's draw specialists, with six so far this season from their opening ten games, and it is easy to see why as their well-organised, hardworking, style stifled and frustrated a Harriers side unchanged for the sixth game in a row.  The Minstermen included former Harrier Simon Russell in their side as their one flair player but he added little for them.

A dour, scrappy, game almost came to life after ten minutes when Harriers' leading scorer Justin Richards was put clear on the right by Keith Lowe's pass but his angled shot, looking destined for the far corner, went narrowly wide of the far post.  There was a further scare for the visitors after 20 minutes when Martin Brittain's left-wing corner was met by the head of skipper Mark Creighton; his header was saved by Michael Ingham and City managed to scramble the ball away off the line.  In the last minute of the half Matt Barnes-Homer lobbed the ball over the advancing Ingham into the path of Brian Smikle who headed wide.

The second half followed a similar pattern, Harriers forced to work hard for whatever they could get by a disciplined City side.  Eventually the deadlock was broken after 62 minutes; Brittain received the ball on the right wing, cut back onto his weaker left foot and crossed to the near post where Smikle arrived to score his second goal of the season with a diving header.  Late in the game Russ Penn should have doubled the advantage; jinking his way into the penalty area on the left his shot to the near post was held by Ingham.

Four minutes from the end city thought that they had equalised; debutant Peter Holmes hit a 20-yard shot that was going wide until it was turned in by Simon Rusk but the latter was offside and the goal was not allowed to stand.  In the last minute, with York throwing bodies forward, Harriers could have made the result safe; Barnes-Homer latched onto a ball on the left wing and cut into the penalty area before shooting wide of the far post when a better option would have been to pull the ball back to the unmarked David McDermott at the far post.

Any remaining nerves were finally settled three minutes into stoppage time; Barnes-Homer's pass through the inside-right channel set McDermott clear and his low cross into the danger area found an unmarked Richards who was left with an easy finish for his seventh goal of the season, the same total he managed for the whole of last season.