THERE was a small consolation for York City midfielder Darren Dunning at Tuesday night's 1-0 home defeat against Stevenage Borough.

Dunning was presented with the Evening Press Player of the Month award for December before the match by City supporter Kath Rowe.

Kath was selected from readers who e-mailed us a man-of-the-match selection for last month's games.

To be in with a chance of presenting this month's winner with his award, please e-mail dave.flett@ycp.co.uk with your top man for any game in January.

The framed photograph was Dunning's second of the season after sharing the September honours with Clayton Donaldson.

Former Hull City striker Donaldson was an outright winner in October while the efforts of David McGurk (August) and Dave Merris (November) have also been recognised.

On-loan Carlisle United defender Lee Andrews is leading the Evening Press Player of the Month standings for January.

Andrews collected four points as our second-highest rated player in City's matches against Crawley Town and Stevenage and also received the two bonus points on offer for the latter match, having received the most man-of-the-match readers' votes.

Skipper Mark Hotte was awarded three points as our top man in the 1-0 win at Crawley, while Dunning claimed a point as our third-highest rated player.

Leading scorer Andy Bishop won the two bonus points after topping our readers' poll.

Latest Evening Press Player of the Year standings: McGurk 24, Donaldson 22, Bishop 21, Dunning 19, Merris 16, Convery 14, Andrews 9, Dudgeon 7, O'Neill 7, Hotte 6, Price 5, Barwick 3, Panther 3, Peat 3, Horwood 2, Porter 2.

Evening Press Player of the Month for January latest standings (based on Evening Press ratings and including two points per game for the player who polls most man-of-the-match votes from our readers): Andrews 7, Bishop 5, Hotte 4, Dunning 3, Merris 3, O'Neill 2 (plus two for Stevenage).

STATS ATTACK

Goals: Bishop 14, Donaldson 10, Convery 5, Dudgeon 4, O'Neill 4, Stewart 2, McGurk 1, Own Goal 1.

Goal assists: Donaldson 9, Bishop 8, Convery 8, Dunning 6, O'Neill 2, Panther 2, Andrews 1, Mansaram 1, McGurk 1, Merris 1, Peat 1, Stewart 1.

Bad boys: Bishop five yellows; Hotte one red, three yellows; Donaldson, Dudgeon both four yellows; Convery, Dunning, Price all three yellows; Horwood, Panther both two yellows; Andrews, Barwick, Mansaram, McGurk, Merris, O'Neill, Palmer, Panther, Peat all one yellow.

Updated: 10:04 Saturday, January 14, 2006