The young guns lost 3-1 in front of 105 fans at Sincil Bank, despite a 43rd minute Tomy Naylor goal.

The eagerly awaited Second Round tie followed a terrific fightback to claim the scalp of Peterbrough 3-2 in the First Round.

• Stags young guns are hot shots in FA Youth Cup

And that all followed 35 goals in four qualifying rounds.

But on Wednesday they were unable to reproduce their form in front of goal, despite dominating at times.

Head of youth development Dave Jervis told the club's official website mansfieldtown.net: "It was a game of missed chances on our behalf; we didn't take our's and they too their's . . . we had an off day in front of goal and we were not ruthless enough when it came down to it.

"I can't fault the effort of the players, they gave everything for the club."

After a good start the Stags fell behind to a 13th minute counter attack.

Just seven minutes later goalscorer Nathan Adams turned goal maker as James Cooper doubled the home side's lead.

Despite the setback the young Stags battled back bravely and Sam Purisoce and Eddie West might have scored before Naylor gave them a lifeline just before half-time, scoring as the home keeper failed to gather a through ball.

Billy Logan blasted over in the second half as the Stags created chances to level.

Then Naylor might have added his second of the night to equalise and when the keeper blocked his effort, Elliot Aitkin out the rebound over.

The Imps effectively ended the Stags' hopes 17 minutes from time when Hutchinson raced through to score.

From then on Lincoln dominated on the way to a Third Round trip to Birmingham, but Luke Herriott in goal kept them at bay.

MANSFIELD TOWN: Herriott, Allsopp, Ludlum, Turner, McCormick, West, Palmer, Aitkin, Naylor, Pursicoe, Logan. Subs: Higginson, Loannou, Ryan, Langford, Witton.

Click here for full match report at the club's official website mansfieldtown.net

One of the stars of the Stags' cup run was 16-year-old Nick Langford and he spoke to mansfieldtown.net ahead of the cup tie. Click here for report, including audio interview.

Or click here to find out the views of Stags' youth chief Dave Jervis in a second audio interview at the club's website mansfieldtown.net before the tie.

A third audio interview at the site was with 17-goal striker Grant Ryan, click here - or click here for an audio preview of the cup tie with all three.