LEWIS Caspall helped himself to four goals and several assists as Penzance went on a goals rampage against a young Truro side at Penlee Park on Tuesday night.

Charlie Young and Wade Brown weighed in with two goals apiece and others came from Josh Magin, Charlie Willis and Jacob Trudgeon.

Nathaniel West scored Truro’s only goal towards the end of the first half but they were already 4-0 down by then.

Penzance manager Mark Vercesi rested himself for the first time this season, James Butler and Caspall started, the latter having been unavailable for the FA Vase trip to Wellington three days earlier.

The Magpies made a blistering start, going 3-0 up in 11 minutes through Caspall twice – his second a fine solo effort – and Young.

After a powerful surge down the right flank, Magin saw a powerful shot deflected wide. He was not to be denied for long, though, thrashing the ball home after 26 minutes to put Penzance four to the good.

Truro enjoyed their best spell of the night during the latter stages of the first half and pulled one back when West, after a neat turn, rammed a shot high into the roof of Harry Salmon’s net.

But they were reeling again straight after the break. Archie Reynolds, who before kick-off received an award from chairman Godfrey Adams to commemorate his 100th consecutive Peninsula League start, put over a centre from the right from which Caspall drilled a shot that Piran Jones did well to save.

The keeper could do nothing, though, to keep out a sublime strike from Willis seconds later which made it 5-1.

With a skilful turn, Young created for himself the space to thread home an accurate left foot shot. This sixth goal was the cue for Vercesi to make a quintuple substitution but, sadly for Truro, there was no let-up.

Caspall immediately completed his hat-trick – Penzance’s first since Tyler Tonkin’s treble on Boxing Day 2023, also against City – then set-up Trudgeon, one of the new arrivals, for a tap-in.

Hayden Waters, another substitute, found the net with a clever 77th back-heel, but the effort was disallowed. A minute later though, Caspall extended his personal tally to four – and six for the season – with an emphatic finish to make it 9-1.

Waters then pulled a shot wide of the far post, and Ollie Butler dipped a drive just over before Brown capitalised on more left flank magic by Caspall to skilfully score the 10th.

It was Brown’s first goal for the first team since he returned to the club in the summer, but there was still time for the ex-Mousehole and St Day striker to grab a second – another deft finish – in injury-time to complete the rout.

Penzance: Harry Salmon, Archie Reynolds (Rohan Bennetts 62), James Butler (Hayden Waters 62), Josh Turner, Silas Sullivan (captain) (Wade Brown 62), Ewan Trevains, Charlie Willis, Josh Magin (Ollie Butler 62), George Molcher (Jacob Trudgeon 62), Charlie Young, Lewis Caspall.

Goals: L Caspall 4, C Young 2, W Brown 2, J Magin, C Willis, J Trudgeon.

Truro: Piran Jones, Ketan Cooper, Blake Gordon Dunn, Tyreece Gallaway, Toby Burt, Noah Holmes, Nathaniel West, Ollie Pickup, Ethan Jorey, Liam Pascoe, Ben Medlin.

Sub: Jackson Penhallurick.

Goal: N West.

Referee: Scott Coutts.