Barnsley bucked a trend at Hillsborough and put to rest a dismal run of pedigree in Wednesday's backyard.

The Tykes had suffered an amazing 11 straight defeats in S6 prior to this derby clash but a moment of quality by Jamal Campbell-Ryce was enough to earn the Oakwell outfit maximum points.

The winger's first half missile lit up a largely dismal contest that was low on enterprise and goalmouth action but that did not matter a jot to Barnsley, who emerged with a vital win to ease their relegation concerns.

The Owls made one change from the side that lost at Doncaster on Saturday, with Richard Hinds making his first appearance after suffering a broken leg at Wolves back in August.

With Mark Beevers nursing an ankle injury, Lewis Buxton moved across to central defence, leaving Hinds to slot in at right back.

A lively opening saw the Reds' defensive wall charge down a Darren Potter free kick inside the first minute while Michael Gray reacted sharply to block a fierce Campbell-Ryce effort on the counter.

But the contest soon slipped into a typically frantic derby affair with neither side creating much of any note until Marcus Tudgay's well-driven shot forced Stephen Foster into a vital last-ditch tackle just before the 15-minute mark.

Most of the action unfolded in a busy engine room and the fact that both Lee Grant and counterpart Heinz Muller were each untroubled with half an hour on the clock told its own story.

New Tykes loan recruit Michael Mifsud found space inside the danger zone but his pull-back went unpunished in a move that summed up the dearth of real quality on offer.

But that was until the 38th minute when Campbell-Ryce sparked the game into life with a stunning solo strike. The Jamaican took an accurate cross-field ball from Daniel Bogdanovic into his stride down the left of the Owls' penalty area and advanced to unleash a thunderous drive past the despairing figure of Grant.

Leon Clarke put a half-chance wide at the other end three minutes before the interval - one of few openings through an under-par first half Wednesday performance.

Brian Laws sent the same side out for the second period and the Owls bossed the early exchanges, albeit without carving open a well organised Barnsley rearguard. The Reds seemed content to sit on their lead, offering little beyond the halfway line.

Laws introduced Francis Jeffers on the hour, with Gray making way and Tudgay dropping back to the right side of midfield. But the pattern of the game remained the same, with Wednesday well on top while failing to pose a real threat to the Barnsley goal.

Jermaine Johnson forced Muller into his first genuine action on 67 minutes with a vicious shot that the keeper parried wide as the Owls turned the screw but still the visiting defence held firm.

Wade Small replaced Johnson and almost made an immediate impact, firing a dipping shot that flew over the bar and into the Kop.

Still Wednesday pressed and they came within a whisker of snatching what would have been a fully deserved equaliser on 87 minutes but Bobby Hassell cleared Tudgay's dink off the line, leaving Barnsley to take the short hop back across South Yorkshire with their first win since Boxing Day.

Owls: Grant, Hinds, Wood, Buxton, Spurr, Johnson (Small 71), O'Connor, Potter, Gray (Jeffers 62), Clarke (Boden 80), Tudgay

Unused subs: O'Donnell, McAllister

Barnsley: Muller, Van Homoet, Foster, Hassell, Moore, Colace, De Silva, Campbell-Ryce, Teymourian (Hammill 80), Mifsud, Bogdanovic (Macken 69)

Unused subs: Steele, Devaney, Souza