Truro City ended February unbeaten after a 1-1 home draw against lowly Weymouth. 

The Tinners keep hold of fifth place in the table although at one stage whilst leading against the Dorset outfit, City were second in the standings. 

Tyler Harvey’s seventh minute penalty had put Truro ahead and in a game which was totally dominated by the hosts, they were pegged back 23 minutes from time when striker Malachi Linton levelled. 

Despite shipping for the first time in almost three matches, City dominated the closing exchanges, but couldn’t find a way past visiting custodian Will Buse. 

Truro boss John Askey made one change to the side which comfortably dispatched Slough Town in the side’s last home match. Leading scorer Tyler Harvey partnered Jaze Kabia in attack with Luke Jephcott taking his place amongst the substitutes. 

Skipper Connor Riley-Lowe shook off a calf strain to take his place on the left hand side of a five-man midfield while Ben Adelsbury was absent after his wife went into labour.

The game started evenly until Truro went ahead with their first significant foray forward. Riley-Lowe’s ball forward invited Yassine En-Neyah to chase and after tangling with Calvin Brooks in the box, down went the former Nottingham Forest midfielder. 

Referee Steven Swan pointed to the spot and just like the return fixture at the Bob Lucas Stadium in November, City and Harvey specifically would have the chance to score from 12 yards. 

The outcome, as it was in Dorset, was emphatic as Harvey sent Buse the wrong way and Weymouth, who had picked up a morale boosting win over Avelely in their previous encounter, were behind. 

Almost straight from the restart, City were back on the front foot as Kabia fired into the corridor of uncertainty whilst at the other end, Linton shot well wide for Weymouth. 

The Terras then had their best chance of the game just shy of the 20-minute mark through Brooklyn Genesini, after he met Josh McQuoid’s wicked free-kick delivery. 

Shortly afterwards, City were dealt a blow when Tom Harrison was forced off with a knee injury, replaced by Billy Palfrey as Will Dean moved into a defensive berth. 

Jake McCarthy then stung the palms of City gloveman Dan Lavercombe before the game entered something of a phony war stage, as neither side could really assert themselves on proceedings. 

But that all changed just before the break as Harvey fired straight into Buse’s arms before Palfrey was millimetres away from connecting with an inviting Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain cross. 

City’s midfield replacement had another sight of Buse’s goal, with his shot going wide and the half time blast of Mr Swan’s whistle would have come as something of a relief to the visitors, who were without their manager Warren Feeney due to illness. 

So for the third home game in succession City led 1-0 at the break and in a carbon-copy of the win over Slough last time out, Askey’s charges started the second stanza well. 

The outstanding Zac Bell bombed forward at a rate of knots but fired wide from a tight angle with Harvey having two efforts saved by the overworked Buse after the hour mark. 

The game then changed when a City attack was turned over in midfield and Linton ran onto a slide rule pass, finishing emphatically past Lavercombe to level the scores. 

City immediately thrust Dom Johnson-Fisher into the fray and the pacy Whitehawk forward was in the thick of things from the off. Picking up the ball in his own half, Johnson-Fisher went past three would-be Weymouth defenders like they weren’t there, to cross for Palfrey who was denied brilliantly by Buse. 

The hosts were almost exclusively camped in the Weymouth half at this point as Harvey saw a pair of goalbound efforts blocked while Jephcott laid the ball on a plate for Kabia, who whistled a volley past Buse’s post. 

Six minutes of injury time, given City’s penchant for late goals, would have given Weymouth late jitters, but they held on well to climb off the foot of the table. 

Despite City only picking up one point, the side head into the final two months of the season very much still in the hunt for promotion to Step One. 

Match Facts

City: Lavercombe, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Harrison (Palfrey, 21) (Jephcott, 79), Law, Bell, Rooney, Dean, En-Neyah, Riley-Lowe (Johnson-Fisher, 71), Harvey, Kabia. Subs not used: Neal, Bates. 

Weymouth: Buse, Genesini, Rowan, Thompson, Robinson (Hamblin, 56), Goodship, McQuoid, McCarthy, Greenwood, Brooks (Pollock, 81), Linton. Subs not used: Edwards, Pollard, Armstrong. 

Referee: Steven Swan

Attendance: 1328