YORK City youth-team striker Nick Kennedy is the only scholar under consideration for first-year professional terms next season.

The rest of the under-18s second-year apprentices have been released following a difficult season that has seen the team prop up the Football League Youth Alliances's north-east division with just two victories.

Kennedy has been put forward by academy manager Andy McMillan and his team of coaches as a possible first-team hopeful and Bootham Crescent chief Jackie McNamara will now run the rule over him at the club's Wigginton Road training ground.

On giving Kennedy a chance to impress, McMillan said: "In his first year, Nick would admit himself that he could have done better but, during the last few months, we have seen a big improvement in his game in terms of work-rate, effort and goalscoring. He will now get the opportunity to train with the first team for a couple of weeks."

The Minstermites have one game left to play against Notts County after enjoying their second success of the season when a team, largely made up of under-16 schoolboys and first-year scholars, came away from Oldham with a 2-0 triumph.

A departing Richard de Groot scored the first goal with his head from a set-piece, while Sam Fielding added a second late on during a swift counter attack.

The team are now undefeated in three games, having also beaten Grimsby 4-0 and shared the spoils during a 2-2 draw against Doncaster.

A victory in their last game could see them climb above Grimsby and finish a tough season on a high.