Champions Harborough Town targeting another win to wrap up brilliant campaign
Harborough Town will be aiming to end their remarkable season in winning style when they travel to the division’s form team Stamford on Saturday (ko 3pm).
There is nothing riding on the game for either side, with the Bees having already wrapped up the title and promotion, and Stamford completing their great escape in avoiding relegation.
The Daniels were rooted to the bottom of the Pitching-In Southern League Premier Central at the turn of the year, but have risen to 17th and will be playing at Step 3 again next season.
They have finished the campaign strongly and are unbeaten in their past four games, winning 3-0 at Royston last weekend.
The Bees completed an unbeaten home season on Saturday when they secured a 1-1 draw with Bishop's Stortford.
The stalemate meant Harborough won 14 and drew seven of their league matches at home across the course of 10 long months.
Once the game was over, it was party time as the Bees were presented with the Premier Central title trophy after the match.
Ben Stephens fired Borough in front with a cracking free-kick on 16 minutes, and although the visitors equalised in the second half, there was no dampening the celebrations in front of a crowd of 1,325.
Following the match, it was end-of-season awards time, and goalkeeper Elliott Taylor proved to be the big winner.
Taylor picked up two of the big awards, being named the supporters' player of the year and the players' player of the year.
Mitch Austin went for Alex Morris as his player of the season, while the top scorer trophy went to Riley O'Sullivan for his 17 league goals over the course of the campaign, finishing four clear of Brady Hickey.
Manager Austin was also given an award for passing the milestone of 250 games in charge of the Bees.