St Newlyn East ended their season with a narrow defeat against Boscastle but it was the nature of the performance in the final match that was most pleasing.

After weeks of below par performances Newlyn finally seemed to find their fighting spirit and arguably deserved at least a draw from this match. What made the performance even more surprising was that the Saints travelled with the bare 11 players and were missing key members of their team through injury or work commitments.

Boscastle opened the scoring on 25 minutes when a left footed corner was not defended by Newlyn allowing the tall defender a free header from six yards out. Despite this Newlyn were unlucky not to equalise when a fine free-kick from Elliot Powell was well saved by the home keeper.

With Boscastle able to make full use of their four subs Newlyn were forced to battle on and when the home side scored their second within five minutes of the second half Newlyn starting - again an in-swinging corner that was not properly defended giving the Boscastle attacker a tap in - Newlyn seemed destined to struggle as the game went on but they then took their game to the home side enjoying some good opportunities to score. In fact Newlyn had two goals ruled correctly out for marginal offside decisions but were rewarded when Tyler Eastlake found Ross London in the penalty area who calmly shot home.

As the referee blew for full time and ended Newlyn's campaign there was a glimmer of hope again from their performance but also relief that a tough season was over and optimism that a stronger Newlyn will return next season.