Harriers slipped to a sixth defeat in a row having played most of the match with ten men.

Six points adrift at the foot of the table and now twelve points from safety, Harriers had a poor start to the game when Matt Young was adjudged to have pulled Elliott Frear down in the penalty area after 14 minutes.

Jon Parking, who had scored in the first meeting of the clubs at Aggborough in August, stepped up and sent Dean Snedker the wrong way with the spot-kick.  Less than five minutes later Frear went down again, far too easily, under challenge from Young and the Harriers full back was shown a second yellow card, reducing the visitors to ten men.

Elton Ngwatala, making his first start in a Harriers shirt, went close to levelling the scores on the half-hour mark following a strong run through the middle and an exchange of passes with Omari Patrick but his shot flew just over the bar.  At the other end Dale Bennett's right wing run and cross created an opening for Brett Williams at the far post but he volleyed wide.

Harriers' inability to defend set pieces came back to haunt them again just before the hour when Sam Wedgebury's corner from the Rovers right was met by the head of an unmarked, unchallenged, Williams who doubled the advantage.

At the break Harriers had changed formation, returning to the field with no striker, and  ironically looked more dangerous with Luke Maxwell in an attacking midfield position than they had with Matt Barnes-Homer up front.  Home keeper Steve Arnold was only tested once, though, as Harriers struggled to break down the home defence; Ben Whitfield warming his hand with the visitors' only on-target shot of the half.

In stoppage time Rovers completed the scoring with another set piece routine that Harriers failed to deal with; Keanu Marsh-Brown's free-kick from deep on the right picked out the head of Kurtis Guthrie who guided the ball past Snedker unchallenged.