Lincoln City ended their season with defeat to promoted Wrexham at the LNER Stadium.
Goals from Elliott Lee and Ryan Longman in the second-half saw the Welsh outfit to victory in front of a sold-out crowd, as they showed their clinical edge against a mid-table Imps side.
After securing a record-breaking third consecutive promotion last weekend, the Red Dragons made just a single chance as they looked to turn their unbeaten run into double-digits.
Michael Skubala replaced Adam Jackson and an injured Erik Ring with Tom Hamer and Nottingham Forest loanee Joe Gardner.
Lincoln City start brightly in May sunshine:
After a well-observed minute’s silence for the victims of the 40th anniversary of the Valley Parade Fire, Ethan Hamilton had the first strike of the game just 13 seconds in. He found space in the Wrexham box, but saw a tame effort easily saved by Arthur Okonkwo.
Left-back Sean Roughan was starting his 46th league game of the term, after not missing a single minute of the Imps’ League One or FA Cup campaigns. It was his cross that almost saw James Collins nod the opener home, as he flicked a header wide in the 15th minute.
Lincoln started much the better team against Wrexham, backed by their fancy-dressed away end, with Roughan and Reeco Hackett having joy out wide.
It took until just shy of the 30 minute mark for the visitors to fashion their first chance. Sam Smith volleyed a James McClean cross wide of goal, not troubling George Wickens.
The lively Hackett forced a save out of 18-clean sheet man Okonkwo as he ran into the box after a defence splitting pass from Ethan Erhahon.
The game had an end of the season feel, with Hamilton especially playing with a lot of freedom in the middle of the park.
Promoted Wrexham slow clinical edge:
Midfielder George Dobson had a header smartly blocked in the six-yard box just seconds after the restart, before Roughan went down the other end and teased a cross that Hackett could not quite stretch quite enough to get on the end of.
Lincoln’s St. Lucian international put a neat pass across the box, which Gardner turned towards goal only for a Wrexham leg to block his effort.
Then, Wrexham showed why they will be playing in the Sky Bet Championship next season. Ryan Longman curled a perfect cross in, which Elliott Lee planted into the back of the City goal.
It was a reminder of the Welsh side’s clinical edge, as they scored with their first shot on target of the game.
Wickens stopped the visitors from doubling their lead moments later and he rushed out to smother Sam Smith’s attempt.
But, he could not stop Longman turning provider as he finished off a sweeping Wrexham move. McClean and Smith linked up, cutting through the Imps defence and leaving the 24-year-old to slide the ball home.
Substitute Jack Moylan had an effort deflected wide after he replaced Ben House, before curling a free-kick narrowly over Okonkwo’s goal in the latter stages of the game,
Steven Fletcher was chased down by Wickens, closing down the angle of a shot that was blocked, before Tom O’Connor curled a wild side-footer over the bar.
Youngster Zane Okoro was one of the latter substitutes Skubala deployed, as City ended the campaign in 11th place with 61 points.