York have enjoyed no success this year against any east coast rivals, but playing into the brunt of the gales for the first period were ahead on 4 mins with a coverted try. The pack drove a lineout before centre Peter Martin took a switch pass, breached the first line of defence before asking his supporting winger Jamie Eveleigh to finish off the good work, he skilfully obliged with great feet and pace.
York continued a tempo and soon had another score on the board thanks to some impressive handling by the forwards. Taking advantage of the blinside they worked Freddie Potrykus an overlap on the wing. His run -finished with a classic step- and offload saw Joe Maud touching down for a 12 point lead with only a quarter hour gone.
York continued to make light of the elements and should have scored with another try after a driving maul was controversially stopped short. The confidence now led to a few 50/50 passes being made, these failed to go to hand and Scarbor capitalised to break. On the half hour a missed tackle on the Scarbor 6 allowed an inside offload to his hooker to score unopposed.
Scarbor now had the rub and added a penalty to close to within a score. Then five minutes later another spilled ball was run back by the effective Scarbor backline. Although the winger was brought down short York were judged to have come over the top illegally and Joe Maud (yet again)sent to the sin bin. From the resultant tap penalty Scarbor's no7 rolled the ball under the players diving beyond the ball for the ref to award another converted try and complete the remarkable turn round.
York began the 2nd half with returned vigour and Jon Dawes put over a penalty ten mins in. But they continued to try a little too hard and last passes never went to hand and Scarbor gratefully countered. Indeed, on one occasion but for a fantastic covering tackle by Richard Downey they could have extended their lead. They did take a penalty and questions were now being asked of the resilience of this young York team trailling by 5 with 10 mins to go. A strong bullocking run by Peter Martin drew a penalty with 8 minutes to go which Dawes knocked over. And as the floodlights came on the pack continued to scrap for everything. Their reward was granted with a minute to go, as their pressure on the Boro line drew a penalty for Dawes to fire through the sticks for a 1 point lead which they saw out.
MoM was awarded to Micky Cawthorn stepping ably into the 9 boots -and an eygptian mummifiers bag full of strapping- at very short notice.