Substitute Ashley Fletcher got the 81st-minute winner as Barnsley beat Doncaster Rovers 1-0 in their South Yorkshire derby on Saturday.
Fletcher tapped in his first career league goal from close range to earn a deserved win for Barnsley who had dominated the match.
It was a fifth successive home victory and lifted Barnsley to tenth in the League One table with the gap between them and the play-offs reducing by a point to seven.
Reds caretaker head coach Paul Heckingbottom made one change to the side that lost at Gillingham last week – ending a seven-match winning run – with centre-back Marc Roberts replacing Kevin Long who has returned to parent club Burnley after his loan expired.
Barnsley dominated the early exchanges. Sam Winnall almost put them ahead after 90 seconds but he headed a good right-wing James Bree cross just wide from eight yards out under pressure from a defender.
Adam Hammill brilliantly beat two Donny defenders and exchanged passes with Winnall to go clean through but his weak shot was easily saved by Thorsten Stuckmann.
Conor Hourihane blazed over from the edge of the box, after a one-two with Lloyd Isgrove opened Donny up, then Hammill's fine 25-yard effort was tipped just wide by Stuckmann.
Barnsley lost left-back Aidy White to injury midway through the first half. He was stretchered off and replaced by George Williams after a foul by Rovers' Conor Grant who was booked.
Alfie Mawson's header from a Hourihane corner was well-saved by Stuckmann then Doncaster almost took a shock lead just before the break but captain Paul Keegan shot wide from the edge of the box.
Doncaster finally tested Adam Davies on 54 minutes when Mitchell Lund was given the ball in yards of space on the right, advanced into the box and fired a shot straight at home goalkeeper who parried it away.
Stuckmann had to push a 25-yard Hourihane effort out of his top corner then kept out a central header from Winnall who also forced a better save with a low 15-yard effort.
The breakthrough finally came when Stuckmann could only parry Hourihane's deflected shot to Fletcher who fired in the rebound from five yards out.
