YORK City’s winning run is over following an exciting 2-2 home draw with National League North play-off rivals Spennymoor.

The Minstermen led twice courtesy of Jonny Burn and Aidan Connolly goals, but Spennymoor replied through Ryan Hall and sub Andrew Johnson, as both sides missed out on a sixth successive victory.

City made a confident start with Jon Parkin heading off target from a left-wing Connolly, cross, before Burn opened the scoring after only 11 minutes.

Pressure from Raul Correia forced away keeper Jordan Porter into conceding a corner that Simon Heslop subsequently swung towards the far post from the left.

Skipper Sean Newton then headed back towards goal and Burn pounced from five yards to stab into the roof of the net.

Spennymoor’s first chance of the afternoon, meanwhile, saw Mark Anderson scoop wastefully over from ten yards after Hall had got the better of Heslop close to the right byline and pulled the ball back.

At the other end, Adriano Moke dispossessed Anderson in his own half, before haring into the penalty box and going close with a deflected 15-yard attempt.

Moors midfielder Shane Henry, meanwhile, fired across the face of the home goal after tricking his way past City debutant Connor Brown through the left channel.

Moments later, Correia sprung the visitors’ offside trap to charge on to a Connolly though ball but, after rounding an onrushing Porter, his goalbound shot was brilliantly blocked by covering Spennymoor captain Chris Mason.

Another Heslop left-wing corner also troubled Pprter, but Parkin could not force a header in at the far post.

The north-east outfit’s top scorer Glen Taylor might have done better on the stroke of half-time, however, when he failed to extend Adam Bartlett with a downward header after being picked out seven yards from goal by Kallum Griffiths’ right-wing centre.

After the interval, Newton aimed a 20-yard shot straight at Porter after Moke’s right-wing raid, but Spennymoor were level on 52 minutes.

Henry played in Hall through the right channel and his blasted edge-of-the-box effort wrongfooted Bartlett and spun into the City keeper’s bottom-right corner following a heavy deflection.

The goal changed the complexion of the game with Kallum Griffiths blasting over from 12 yards shortly afterwards and Hall seeing another deflected chance go close.

Joe Tait also headed off target from an Anderson corner, before a big scramble at the other end eventually saw Parkin’s prodded shot deflected away from goal.

Away defender James Curtis then almost sliced into his own goal following David Ferguson’s left-wing cross, but City did go back in front from their next attack on 72 minutes.

Moke sent in a firm low cross from the right that expertly picked out Connolly for a far-post, tap-in in front of the David Longhurst end.

Spennymoor refused to surrender though and, after Griffiths sidefooted over from 25 yards, were back on terms on 76 minutes.

After Hamza Bencherif had conceded a corner, Brown cleared Taylor’s header off the line from Anderson’s right-wing free kick, only for Johnson to pounce and net from four yards.

The visitors also had the best chances to secure all three points with a blasted Anderson free kick, which appeared destined for Bartlett’s top-left corner, being excellently pushed away by the home keeper on 90 minutes.

City also left themselves outnumbered two against four at the back in stoppage time on the counter, but Henry drilled a ten-yard drive at Bartlett.