A look back at Saturday’s success…
By Matty Paddock - 15/03/2025
Posted 7 months ago
HARRIERS hit South Shields for five on Saturday to complete a remarkable league double in National League North.
Phil Brown’s charges had already seen off Shields with an emphatic 4-0 win in the reverse fixture at Aggborough earlier in the season, and went one better at the 1st Cloud Area with a ruthless performance to extend a recent good run of form.
Harriers were in all honesty dominant from the off. Home goalkeeper Kyle Seymour had already saved a 12th-minute Ashley Hemmings header when, a minute later, he was helpless to prevent Kyle Morrison’s bullet header from cannoning in off the bar for 1-0.
Either side of the half-hour mark, Zak Brown had chances to make it 2-0, but struck wide with one effort before Seymour denied him with a smart save on the latter.
It was 2-0 on 37 minutes courtesy of a goal made by the iconic Harriers duo – Amari Morgan-Smith playing in Hemmings who had time to compose himself and take a touch in the area before sweeping the ball into the far corner.
The visitors will have known to expect a big reaction from their hosts after half time so themselves immediately stepped on the gas again – Hemmings sending a header just inches wide of the target within 30 seconds or so, before Kouhyar made it 3-0 within 90, taking the ball superbly in his stride before dispatching a shot with too much power for Seymour’s touch to prevent it finding the net.
The fourth was quick in coming, too. 52 minutes were on the clock when Worrall’s free kick was nodded back across goal by Morrison, Hemmings applying the finishing touch with a neat header of his own to beat Seymour once more.
Four minutes later Kouhyar and Hemmings both had chances to add a fifth before the latter did so, completing his hat-trick in outrageous style to tuck home another loose ball with an overhead kick that bounced in the net.
12 before time, South Shields went close to pulling a goal back when Dibble saved well from Martin Smith before, with the best home chance of the day, another sub in Dylan Stephenson slotted wide of the far corner on the angle.
In between, Reiss McNally almost nudged in a sixth for Harriers from close range, but the destination of the points had, by that time, been long decided.
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