Kidderminster Harriers 1-1 Barnet
It could have been worse - as the massive Barnet army at Kidderminster will testify.
As it stands, Bees go into the last day of the regular season next week in pole position, but it wasn’t like that on 70 minutes.
Bristol Rovers were winning their game, Barnet were losing - and at that moment Rovers had a two-point advantage.
However, in something close to a football fairy tale, three minutes after arriving on the pitch the man known simply as Luisma cancelled out Kiddy’s first half lead.
Luis Manuel Villa López’s cheeky low effort into the corner got even better after fans in gold-and-black learned Ricky Modeste had levelled for Dover in the 88th minute to break Bristol hearts in Kent.
Barnet could even have won it when John Akinde was through one-on-one but keeper Danny Lewis came off his line to block.
Before that, Akinde glanced a header just wide with the goal at his mercy seconds after Luisma had levelled.
Luke Gambin fired over, and Akinde headed against the bar before Curtis Weston fired wide after Bees boss Martin Allen had presumably read the riot act at half time.
Danny Wright for Harriers was also through one-on-one, but Graham Stack also did well to block. But there was little the Barnet keeper could do when Kidderminster took the lead as Wright was first to a flick-on by Lee Hughes from a set piece six minutes before the break.
For the next 33 minutes it looked bleak for the 868 making the trip, but as long as Barnet match whatever Bristol do when they take on Gateshead next Saturday, The Hive will host League Two football next term - and the first since the club was relegated in 2013.
Bees: Stack; Yiadom, Stephens, N'Gala, Johnson; Vilhete (Gambin 67), Togwell (Luisma 72), Weston (c), Clifford; Akinde, Gash (MacDonald 61); subs not used: Cowley, Saville
Ref: Nick Kinseley
att: 2540
