Scarborough Athletic's hopes of chasing promotion to the National League ended with defeat to Buxton on Tuesday.
At the beginning of the season, bookmakers had heavily tipped Scarborough for relegation, they have spent the last nine months playing their home games in Bridlington due to ongoing structural work at Scarborough Sports Village and have faced financial challenges as a result.
But despite the challenges Boro finished the league season in 6th place in National League North, their highest ever league finish in the football pyramid. That sixth place finish also earned Boro a place in the promotion playoffs.
Their first challenge was an eliminator game against 5th placed Buxton in Derbyshire.
Buxton are a full-time outfit, benefiting from a significantly larger budget and considerably more time on the training ground to prepare and work on tactical elements and that showed in Tuesday night's game as the hosts took control of the game in the second half.
Boro had held their own throughout the first half but after 60 minutes Buxton opened the scoring through Keith Coleman with Luke Brennan adding a second just six minutes later.
The hopes of Boro fans were raised just a minute later when Walker scored to put Scarborough back in contention, but further goals from Buxton in the 75th and 87th minutes sealed their victory and a play off semi final against South Shields on Saturday.
Boro saved face with a second goal in the 91st minute to bring the scoreline to 4-2 but their season is now over.
This is The Coast's Paddy and SAFC Marketing Director Chris Marson provided commentary on the game for this is the Coast Extra and summed up the game..
After the match Boro manager Jono Greening spoke to Paddy.
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