Woking 3 Truro 3

BATTLING Truro couldn't take the shine off Woking's title celebrations despite fighting back from two goals down to draw 3-3 at Kingfield. 

Paris Cowan-Hall and Giuseppe Sole put the champions on course for a 30th win of the season before Andy Watkins pulled City back into contention.

Cowan-Hall restored Woking's two goal advantage before Arran Pugh rose highest to reduce the deficit.

With six minutes remaining Les Afful tapped home after former Stevenage forward Barry Hayles had rounded Aaron Howe.

But manager Garry Hill refused to let the result, or the scattered April showers, dampen the club's celebration in front of a season's best bumper crowd of 4,048.

He said: "I'm proud and pleased to be where we are now.

"I'm a lucky man, I've won this league three times now, and I've enjoyed this season and we'll see where we go from here.

"Its great to see so many young people here and it's great for the club."

"I haven't really thought about the cup final. The number one thing is we've achieved what we wanted to do.

"It's great for the club and tonight the boys are going to go out again, I think half of them are still recovering from last Saturday."

Truro came into this fixture with the third worst defence in the division so goals were always going to be on the cards.

And after 20 minutes Cowan-Hall swept home a sensational volley to give the Card the lead.

Moses Ademola was allowed to skip free down the right flank and drill a fierce cross into the box.

After eluding everyone, Cowan-Hall masterfully fired into the top corner past Tim Sandercombe.

Martin Gritton almost pulled City level with a curling effort from the edge of the box but 10 minutes after taking the lead, Woking extended their lead through Sole.

Cowan-Hall got an important flick on to Joe McNerney's long ball forward to release Kevin Betsy.

The forward rounded Sandercombe before selflessly rolling across the six yard box for Sole to stab home for the tenth consecutive game.

Truro eventually pegged Woking back in the simplest of fashion's but the goal spawned from carelessness in the red and white ranks.

Keiran Murtagh's loose pass was picked up by Scott Walker, who spray a long cross field ball over the top to Watkins.

He times his run perfectly to spring the offside trap and expertly rolled under Howe.

Jack King almost had the beating of Sandercombe with a curling effort right on half time saw his effort from the edge of the box palmed away.

Sole watched a powerful volley fly just wide moments after the restart and 11 minutes into the second half Woking looked to have made the points safe through man of the match Cowan-Hall.

A rasping ball from substitute Tom Davis was picked up by Ademola who clipped in a cross that was met by Cowan-Hall.

The strikers firm header had just enough to squeeze through the hands of Sandercombe and Truro looked to be down and out.

But uncertain of their own security in the Blue Square South, Truro fought back to earn a point.

Pugh capitalised on some shoddy marking at a corner to head City back into the game and with just six minutes left to play, Afful poked in the equaliser after Hayles had left Howe in no-mans land.

Elvis Hammond came off the bench and could have won it for the Cards but hesitated in the box before Cowan-Hall also opted to pass instead of shoot when ideally placed to steal all three points.

Woking conclude their time in the Blue Square South with a tricky away trip to play-off hunting Chelmsford on Saturday.

And Essex man Hill believes all the negative press levelled his way in his home town boils down to nothing more than jealousy.

"Of course Im looking forward to it. You look forward to every game and it's nice to go there as champions.

"As they say in the Essex Chronicle I'm not everyone's cup of tea but I don't want to be people's cups of tea. I want to be a manager of success.

"It's probably a little bit of jealous with someone who lives four miles from the ground but travels around the country and wins it three times in his first year at three different clubs.

"What does it say? I think that's the end of that."