The U19s signed off their final home game of the season with an entertaining 9-2 victory over Solihull Moors on Wednesday afternoon.
Ben Farrar was back to lead the line for this one, as Tom Hewson dropped to the bench.
The returning striker produced the first chance of the game, cutting in and flashing a low effort narrowly wide of the post.
Soon after, Solihull clipped the top of the crossbar from a long-range free-kick.
More opportunities came City’s way, before the breakthrough arrived in the 26th minute.
A superb cross from Lewis Beadle found Farrar, who managed to slice the ball into the net.
Eleven minutes later, the lead was doubled. Oz Shaw’s ball across goal picked out Sutton Greening, who reacted quickest to convert after his initial effort had been saved.
York added further goals before the break, with both Farrar and Greening completing their braces.
Farrar finished from close range following another Beadle assist, before Greening capitalised on a loose ball almost instantaneously from the restart, driving forward into the box and finding the far bottom corner.
Jake Roberts entered the fray in the 50th minute and, as he has done so many times this season, made an immediate impact, scoring three minutes later.
The substitute got into the perfect position to meet Michael Kydd’s looping cross and head it downwards past the goalkeeper to make it 5-0.
It wasn’t long after that when Greening was taken out by the Moors shot-stopper, and a penalty was awarded to the Minstermen.
Ethan Stiver was on taking duties for this one and dispatched nicely into the bottom left corner.
York came close to another just before the hour mark, but the visitors did well to hook the ball off the line.
It was only a matter of time before the seventh goal did arrive, though, as Lucas Russell got on the scoresheet. A pass from Ed Campbell-Baldwin found the midfielder in the box, and he looped a first-time effort into the net for his first goal of the season.
Solihull enjoyed a brief spell of pressure, with Cam White making a number of decent saves, but his clean sheet was denied when a mis-hit cross from the right drifted all the way in.
City responded well and restored their seven-goal cushion six minutes later, with Roberts grabbing his second of the game.
After Russell sent Tom Hewson through, Roberts reacted quickest to a loose ball, rounding the goalkeeper and finishing the move.
The Moors would get another with five minutes left on the clock – a nice bit of link-up play allowed their winger to break forward and tap it past White.
There was chaos near the end, when Adam Tweed had a tussle with an opposite player down by the touchline. Elvis Hall got caught up in the melee that followed, with both receiving red cards, along with two Solihull men.
An eleventh goal would cap off an entertaining afternoon at Wigginton Road – Campbell-Baldwin’s driven cross was struck goalwards by an unmarked Roberts at the back post; his initial effort was clawed off the line by the ‘keeper, but the attacker made no mistake with the follow-up, clinching his hat-trick with the final kick.
York City: White, Shaw, Beadle, Belleh (C), Hall, Stiver (Tweed 58′), Kydd (Campbell-Baldwin 58′), Russell, Farrar (Hewson 52′), Greening (Kettlewell 52′), Binns (Roberts 52′).
