Crewe Alexandra 2-1 Cheltenham Town
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Shaun Miller scored twice as Crewe, who fielded a starting XI made entirely of players who have come through their youth system, finished their season as 2-1 winners against Cheltenham.
On-loan striker Miller, in his second spell back at this first club, put the Alex ahead with a clinical 17th-minute finish.
Cheltenham hit back through youth academy product George Lloyd, only for 30-year-old Miller to wrap up the points after 62 minutes.
The visitors started brightly when Taylor Moore glanced a header wide from Joe Morrell's free kick before Crewe took the lead when Miller capitalised on a mistake by Jamie Grimes to break clear and shoot under Rhys Lovett.
Mo Eisa played a key role in the Robins' 33rd-minute leveller when he pulled the ball back across the six-yard box for Lloyd to finish from close range.
Charlie Kirk drew a diving save from Lovett with a fierce blast from 25 yards before Eisa fired a shot across the face of goal after the break at the other end of the pitch. But it was Miller who ensured the Railwaymen finished with a third consecutive victory when he curled into the far corner.
Crewe's feat of fielding an all-Academy-produced XI had happened once before, on the final day of the 2012-13 League One season when Crewe beat Walsall 2-0 - and there were two survivors from that day, goalkeeper Ben Garratt and defender George Ray.
Report supplied by the Press Association.