Town finished their Bristol Street Motors Trophy campaign with a narrow 1-0 defeat to an experienced League One Exeter City on Tuesday evening.
Exeter opened the scoring in the sixth minute through an unfortunate Harrison Minturn goal in the sixth minute which ended up being the only goal of the game.
Michael Flynn made several changes from the side that drew 1-1 with Harrogate last Saturday with the likes of Lewis Ward, Brooklyn Genesini, Harrison Minturn, Williams Kokolo and George McEachran starting.
However, similar to previous fixtures in this competition this season, allowed more of Town's youngsters to impress, with the likes of Anton Dworzak, Joel McGregor, Sonny Hart, Miles Obodo and Fletcher Hubbard given the chance from the start.
With the League One side naming a strong XI for the final group stage game, they began the game on the front foot and despite the young Swindon defence's best efforts, the Grecians would score the opening goal through an unlucky Kinsella defending a cross that frustrating landed in the back of his own net.
Half-time: Swindon 0 Exeter 1
The second half continued in a well-contested manner following the opening goal early in the game, with Swindon's youngsters continuing to press an experienced League One line-up.
An opportunity came 10 minutes into the second 45, with a neat move that found Miles Obodo who looked to turn and shoot on the spin, but his touch just got away from him and Exeter eventually cleared the danger.
After this chance, neither side looked to threaten for the majority of the remainder of the game, with some late defending from Swindon's defence denying a late second for the visitors.
The game played out a narrow 1-0 defeat in the end for Town, as they exited the Bristol Street Motors Trophy with a key positive being the Academy youngsters who gained more minutes in first-team football, and those first-team players involved gaining more invaluable fitness ahead of this weekend's next league test against Mansfield at The County Ground.
Swindon Town: L.Ward (C) (Evans 89), McEachran (Brown 41), Genesini, Kokolo (Fox 41), Kinsella, Dworzak, Minturn (Adams 89), McGregor, Hart, Obodo, Hubbard (Keyes 67)
Subs not used: Milne, Larkins
Exeter City: MacDonald, Aimson (C), Hartridge (Jules 45), Carroll (Diabate 45), Scott, Wildschut (Niskanen 45), Kite, Rankine (Harper 32), Taylor, Sweeney, Richards (Aitchinson 64)
Goal: Minturn (OG) 6
Subs not used: Trevitt, O'Connor
Attendance: 644 (78 away fans)
