FOR the second time already this season Truro saw a league match abandoned before the 80 minutes were up on Saturday.

The Chiefs were leading 26-19 against Torquay Athletic with seven minutes remaining when the referee ended the match early after appearing to receive a verbal confrontation with the visiting coaching staff.

It had followed an injury to a Tics player when the incident happened.

At the moment, no official reason has been given for the abandonment, but unlike the previous time when they had a match finish early, against Tiverton on October 18, Truro were awarded the win.

Up until the end, the visitors had given a good account of themselves and deserved the losing bonus point they earned.

They gave Truro a tough examination, belying their low position in the Western Counties West division, but ultimately the home side would come out on top.

Tom Hatfield got the scoreboard ticking over after 17 minutes, finishing off a move started by fly-half Jake Champion who broke through the line after a scrum before laying off to centre Carl Ranscombe.

He then offloaded to Hatfield to go over with Champion adding the conversion.

Torquay were only behind for 13 minutes though as after a sustained spell of pressure, lock James Norrish drove the ball over.

The experienced Darren Jacques starting the day at number eight put Truro back ahead five minutes later with a superb run from halfway as he broke through the Tics defence and left their players trailing behind to score under the posts.

Just before half time though, it became 14-14 as John Woodhead shoved his way over for what would be a converted try.

There good work to level up the score got more reward in the second half as Torquay went 19-14 up as winger Aaron Hunt broke down the blindside to touch down.

But the game turned as centre James Milton was sent to the sin-bin for a deliberate knock-on with Truro surging forward.

From the next play, Jacques took a quick tap penalty and burst into the goal area to level proceedings with 15 minutes left.

Then seven minutes later came the winning try as home captain Shaun Roseveare stole a line-out on halfway and fed Champion.

Ranscombe was then given the ball and he managed to run through to tap the ball down under the posts, giving Champion a simple conversion chance.

A minute later the game was stopped prematurely.

Truro’s next match being the schedule replay of their clash with Tiverton.