YORK RUFC were dumped out of the Yorkshire Cup 24-19 by a late Cleckheaton try at Clifton Park.

The West Yorkshire visitors claimed victory in the second round tie to avenge their October 38-22 reverse at the same venue in North One East.

Cleckheaton's reward is a third round trip to Wharfedale, who progressed thanks to a walkover victory against Pocklington.

The two clubs selected teams featuring new names, with some experienced players being rested for the league campaign.

The two flankers for York were Oscar Bell and Adam Bowers, while Sam Elliot made his first team debut at fly-half with Harry Taylor playing on the wing.

This quartet are all young players who have graduated from the York youth section.

Number eight Stefan Dziurzynski and winger Harry Jinks both moved up from the second team and York head coach Lee Denham played at hooker.

After a minute's silence to remember those that lost their lives in the two World Wars, York began the game brightly and took an early lead.

The ball was fed to Sam Elliot from an attacking centre-field scrum. He ran and stepped through the space in the defence to score.

Cleckheaton wing Mikey Hayward chose a nice line and broke through a couple of York midfield tackles to reply for the visitors, with fly-half Ronan Evans adding the conversion to put the visitors ahead.

Another set scrum, this time from inside their own half, allowed York to put on an impressive scoring move.

Harry Taylor was released into open pastures behind the Cleckheaton defence and he made a clean final pass for George Davies to score.

Sam Elliot was successful with the conversion.

However, Haywood again split the York defence for Cleckheaton to score again and make it 12-12 at half-time.

Charlie McGovern and Josh Plunket both received yellow cards to put Cleckheaton down to 13 players at one stage, but York were unable to break through.

The home side had pressure and persistence, but they failed to score in what was at that stage an even game.

There were three tries in the final 10 minutes.

Cleckheaton centre and captain Matty Piper crashed over from 10 metres out for a converted score.

Jinks then ran down the wing and in to score a try for York from halfway, which was again converted by Sam Elliot.

Just before the end, Hayward showed a wide-receiver's balance to receive a cross-field kick and tip-toe into the corner to win the game for Cleckheaton.

York return to league action on Saturday when league leaders Morpeth are the visitors to Clifton Park.