York crushed Lancaster in the rugby 3rds match 37-5 thanks to tries from Bloom, Harris, Skivington-Jones and Parilli.
It is a sweet result for York who have finished the season with a fairytale ending, after having a difficult time of late in BUCS.
Ed Harris opened the scoring for York with a penalty after just a couple of minutes, following an infringement by Lancaster in the scrum. The lead sparked the sizeable away crowd into life, while the Lancaster fans were comparatively silent.
York were enjoying more territory and possession, but whenever Lancaster had possession and threatened runs at the York back line, tackles came flying in.
Although Harris missed his next two penalties, he converted his fourth to punish the Lancaster indiscipline in the first half.
York came out for the second half knowing that tries were needed to secure an emphatic result. Michael Bloom set them on their way for that purpose with a surging run straight through the Lancaster back line, after York secured possession from a ruck.
Then Harris grounded to make the score 16-0. York played brilliantly to suck the Lancaster players over to the left wing for the scrum, then work the ball quickly to the right wing. Santiago Parilli provided the crucial assist and Harris himself converted to make it 18-0.
York touched down for the third time of the afternoon through Guy Skivington Jones with yet another Harris conversion to bring the tally to 23-0.
Lancaster, playing just for pride now, did score a try of their own moments later almost straight from the kick-off in one of their rare chances to make it 23-5.
Parilli then got his reward with a try after collecting the ball from another powerful York maul. Matt Dorrock, on for Harris, converted and York enjoyed a 30-5 lead.
York’s work was complete with just two minutes remaining as Ollie Oates touched down and Dorrock converted.
On his side’s 37-5 whitewash, captain Richard Draper was extremely proud of his team: “To bounce back and finish on a high is just a culmination of the last four weeks of preparation.”