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

Visiting boss John Askey named new signings Aidan Stone and Rekeil Pyke named amongst City’s substitutes, and after a glanced home effort was well held by Dan Lavercombe inside the first two minutes, City took control of proceedings.

Skipper Connor 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.

City felt they should have had a penalty just shy of the 20-minute mark when Kite was bundled over in the box, however, at the other end, a similar incident involving Ryan Law and James Barciela saw a penalty kick awarded.

But Lavercombe pulled off a fine double handed save from City legend Andrew Neal to keep proceedings at 0-0.

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

And into the second period, Dominic Johnson-Fisher stung the palms of Allan after breaking through the offside trap after being played in by B Trialist.

Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain headed wide just shy of the hour mark before the game’s only goal arrived on 62 minutes.

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