THERE were no late heroics for the White Tigers last Wednesday evening as they had to settle for a point, despite a strong performance against Beaconsfield Town at Bolitho Park, writes Cameron Weldon.

Rocky Neal opened the scoring on 16 minutes with an expertly taken goal before the visitors drew level just past the half-hour mark through a stunner from skipper Samuel Togwell.

Despite long periods of sustained pressure in the second half, City couldn’t find that all-important second goal as they had to settle for just one point.

Man of the Match on the night, Rocky Neal came close to breaking the deadlock inside the first 90 seconds of the fixture as he ran through following a misplaced pass from the keeper, but the livewire forward’s effort went narrowly wide of the bottom right-hand corner.

He then headed a Will Dean free-kick narrowly over the bar before Ryan Brett saw an attempt blocked. The midfielder then lofted the ball back across goal to the returning Tyler Harvey, but his header was straight at the keeper.

The deadlock was broken on 16 minutes. Neal beat the offside trap before running through and nonchalantly clipping the ball over the keeper and into the net for his 13th goal of the season.

He was then a whisker away from getting a second minutes later but this time his effort was off target as it went over the crossbar.

The visitors were then gifted an opportunity after a misplaced pass in the Truro defence, but James Hamon was on hand to push the ball away.

Beaconsfield did get their goal on the 31-minute mark. Captain Togwell was picked out on the edge of the box, and he rifled the ball into the far top corner giving Hamon no chance as the scores were leveled once again.

Harvey then tried his luck from outside the box, but his attempt was straight at the keeper before City had a penalty appeal waved away. Palmer’s header appeared to hit a flailing arm, but the referee said no.

City went in search of a second goal in the second half. Brett saw a crossed shot clip the top of the cross bar.

Beaconsfield were looking dangerous at the other end but failed to carve out any clear-cut chances.

Their best effort was blocked away from Connor Riley-Lowe at the back post with 20 minutes to play.

Truro had two big chances to win the game late on. Firstly, Palmer attacked a Dean corner but his header was deflected and went straight into the grateful hands of the keeper.

Then came the biggest chance. City moved the ball across the pitch well with Neal and Harvey linking up. Harvey picked out Kyle Egan who drilled the ball across goal where new loan signing Colin Oppong was waiting but he dragged his effort wide of the post as the game ended in a draw.