Town's final home game of the season ended with a comfortable victory at Emley's Welfare Ground with goals from James Berrett and a brace from under 16 Shane Birtles.

Berrett, in fact, was the only senior outfield player named in Paul Stephenson's young side which coped admirably with the visitors older heads, particularly veteran Steve Torpey who troubled from an early set-piece.

But, after struggling to find their usual fluidity Town's Reserve side hit their stride early in the second half with Berrett opening the scoring on 55 minutes. It came from a well-worked free kick which was taken short and fell inside the box to the Academy graduate who finished neatly with a low shot into the bottom left corner from 12 yards.

From then on, it was all Town and debutant Birtles, in the side after a reshuffle from Stephenson, opened his tally and added Town's second midway through the half after the Terriers broke from their own half from a York set piece. Dave Heagney turned on the edge of the Town area and rolled the ball out to Aiden Chippendale on the left who took a touch and squared to Birtles in the area. The young striker did not need a second invitation as he slid the ball home left-footed form ten yards to coolly cap an excellent Town move.

Town's dominance was complete just before the final whistle after excellent play by Spencer Harris. The young midfielder embarked on a surging run, breaking through the midfield before drawing centre-back Dean Lisles and playing in Birtles. The striker jinked to make the angle before firing past keeper Josh Mimms, right-footed this time, to complete the scoring.

Stephenson was pleased with the result and the application of his young players: "It was a thoroughly deserved win. We perhaps didn't play as well as we can do in the first half but we were a lot brighter in the second and closed them down better.

"It was great for Shane to score because we hauled him in quite late because we've got a few missing and we needed to change it. He's a good young player who will be here next season so we felt we'd give him an opportunity today and get a look at him in this situation."

Town's final game of the season is next Wednesday away at Grimsby Town.

Should Town beat the Mariners, they will be crowned Tote Sport East Division Champions as long as Leeds United do not beat Rotherham the following week in their final game of the campaign.

TOWN: Simon Eastwood, Jack Hunt, Peter Gilbert, Lewis Nightingale, Spencer Harris, James Berrett (David Pickering 75), Ryan Watson, Chris Atkinson, David Heagney, Chris Pert (Shane Birtles 60), Aiden Chippendale

UNUSED SUBS: Lewis Collinson, Luke Durham, Josh McLean

YORK: Mimms, Duckworth, Brown, Hogg, Lisles, Radcliffe, Russell, Rusk, Wetherald, Torpey, Shepherd

SUBS: Knowlson, McDonald, Qualter, Hopcutt, Brown