Truro City’s pre-season campaign ended with a single goal reverse at Plymouth Parkway. 

The winning goal came after 62 minutes when Callum Hall’s effort hit the woodwork, before the rebound was tucked home by the same player. 

It was one of few chances to fall to either side after the turnaround, with most of the goalmouth action coming in the opening 45 minutes. 

Former Tinner Rocky Neal saw his 25th minute penalty saved by City custodian Dan Lavercombe whilst at the other end, Connor Riley-Lowe, Dominic Johnson-Fisher and Harry Kite had Truro’s best chances. 

Visiting boss John Askey was without the services of Zac Bell (illness) and Yassine En-Neyah (ankle), with new signings Aidan Stone and Rekeil Pyke both named amongst City’s substitutes. 

For the hosts, they named former Truro stalwarts Neal and Ryan Brett, with Shane White watching on from the sidelines due to injury. 

After a glanced home effort was well held by Lavercombe inside the first two minutes, City took control of proceedings. Skipper Riley-Lowe had the first chance of note when he headed Harry Kite’s hung cross towards goal, with home stopper Mack Allan making a fine save. 

Kite was involved in the game’s next incident just shy of the 20-minute mark when he was bundled over in the box. 

But the referee waved play on and City were denied an opportunity to open the scoring. 

However, at the other end, a similar incident involving Ryan Law and James Barciela saw a penalty kick awarded. 

Neal placed the ball on the spot but Lavercombe pulled off a fine double handed save to keep proceedings at 0-0. 

Riley-Lowe had a goalbound header blocked inside the six yard box and Harvey’s daisy cutter, from Kite’s corner was well held by Allan. 

Tylor Love-Holmes, playing against the c;ub he served on loan last season, fizzed a volley over before Kite narrowly missed the target with his left foot after a mazy Will Dean run. 

The final action of an entertaining and keenly contested first half saw Johnson-Fisher narrowly fail to find the top corner with a curling effort. 

And into the second period, Johnson-Fisher stung the palms of Allan after breaking through the offside trap with B Trialist playing the former Whitehawk forward in. 

Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain headed wide just shy of the hour mark before the game’s only goal arrived. 

Neal showed persistence to get down the right hand side and his cross found Hall who struck the post. The ball then bounced off the home player and past Stone to ripple the net. 

With City ringing the changes as the half wore on, opportunities to test Allan again were harder to come by until the final ten minutes when Pyke had two headed openings. 

The first of those missed the target whilst his second attempt at goal saw Allan, on loan from AFC Bournemouth, tip the ball over spectacularly. 

Match Facts

City: Lavercombe (Stone,45), Oxlade-Chamberlain, Dean, Law (Sanders, 70), Love-Holmes (A Trialist, 70), Rooney (Palfrey, 80), Kite (B Trialist, 45), Hasani (Jephcott, 64), Riley-Lowe, Harvey, Johnson-Fisher (Pyke, 56). Subs not used: Kinsey, Sanogo.

No team details were provided by the home club.