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BBC News
15-07-2025
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- BBC News
Truro City sign striker Jephcott on permanent deal
Truro City have signed striker Luke Jephcott on a permanent deal after he was released by Newport 25-year-old former Wales Under-21 international spent the second half of last season on loan at Truro, scoring six goals in 17 games as the Tinners won National League former Plymouth Argyle forward moved to Newport from Scottish side St Johnstone in January 2024 but failed to score in 32 league and cup matches."I came in during the second half of last season and I just wanted to find my love for football, which I definitely found, back home with Truro," Jephcott told the club website. "Being closer to home was great and it helped to be part of a great group of players and working for great staff too."I met with the club recently and I was told about the ambitions and the direction it was going, so I was really excited to put pen to paper. "Since I came back to Truro, I just wanted to play and help the team. To win the league and create history for Truro City is something that I will never forget."
The Courier
01-05-2025
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- The Courier
St Johnstone flop becomes English non-league title hero
Luke Jephcott endured a footballing nightmare at St Johnstone. And, after the former Perth striker's career descended even further in Wales, the 25-year-old has bounced back to become a promotion hero in the SIXTH tier of English football. Jephcott was signed by Steven MacLean in the summer of 2023, having built a reputation as a reliable goalscorer at Plymouth Argyle. He made a promising League Cup debut at Alloa but his lack of a pre-season became more exposed when the Premiership got underway. Jephcott made one only three starts in the league, the last of those away to Hearts in November. MacLean's successor, Craig Levein, didn't see a future for him at McDiarmid Park and a permanent transfer to Newport County was agreed in the January window. Levein said: 'Jephcott, for me, was a player who you need when you're dominating games and gets loads of chances. 'Because the best part of his game is finishing. He just doesn't fit with what we need right at this moment in time. 'If we were dominating games, staying in the opposition half and creating chances then he's one you'd want in the squad.' Life didn't improve in EFL League Two, however. Jephcott played 16 games for Newport in the second half of the 2023/24 season, then another 16 during the current campaign. He still couldn't get on the scoresheet and dropped into the National League South in February with Truro City. Jephcott found the net at the first time of asking and has gone on to help Truro secure a dramatic last-day title triumph on goal difference (three goals better than Torquay United), grabbing the opener in a 5-2 victory over St Albans City. They have become the first club from Cornwall to reach the National League, the division just below the EFL. Jephcott, who scored five goals in 14 starts, still has a year left on his contract with Newport.
BBC News
26-04-2025
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- BBC News
Truro City win historic National League South title
Truro City won the National League South title after beating St Albans City 5-2 at the Truro Community victory means Truro become the first club ever from Cornwall to win promotion to the National side in the top six could have won the title going into the final round of matches with Truro top on goal difference from nearest neighbours Torquay United, who were 4-1 winners at mid-table Hemel end the campaign on 89 points, level on points with Torquay but winning the title by virtue of having a better goal difference of just two win also meant that St Albans finished the campaign in the final relegation place and will drop to the seventh tier of English football next season. The dynamic Cornish side were 3-0 up inside the first 10 minutes as they wasted no time in doing their bit to win the Luke Jephcott converted Connor Riley-Lowe's fifth-minute cross from the left at the far post to send the home crowd into minutes later, Dominic Johnson-Fisher got on the end of a Tyler Harvey cross from the right to double the lead. Harvey put the result beyond doubt just three minutes later as he dinked a ball over the top past St Albans keeper Michael were first to the ball throughout and did not give their opponents a chance to Albans did pull one back against the run of play when Harrison Smith nodded in a 28th-minute corner from close range, but the hosts' three-goal lead was restored two-minutes later when Riley-Lowe flicked home Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain's long could have been 5-1 moments later as Johnson-Fisher forced an incredible point-blank save from Johnson after a long throw was not dealt with by the visiting defence. St Albans brought on towering striker Alex Wall on at half-time as they tried to salvage something from the game, and the forward almost pulled a goal back after an hour as Oxlade-Chamberlain did well to block his Dean blocked a Ken Charles shot midway through the half as Saints made the game more news filtered through that Hemel had reduced their deficit against Torquay to 3-1, the home fans had felt able to relax after a tense spell at the start of the second when Torquay's former Truro striker Cody Cooke got his hat-trick to make it 4-1 in Hemel with 15 minutes left you could feel the nerves return around Truro's new got even more tense when St Albans substitute Shaun Jeffers headed in a Charles cross with 12 minutes to go to make it 4-2 and narrow Truro's lead at the top to one goal on goal had a goal ruled out soon after when Truro substitute Andrew Neal was offside while Yassine En-Nayah shot agonisingly wide of the post with nine minutes to seconds later, long-serving Truro striker Neal sealed the promotion as he broke through and fired a low left-footed shot off the base of the post and in past Johnson to send the record home crowd of 3,597 wild.
BBC News
18-04-2025
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- BBC News
Torquay United beat Truro City to keep title hopes alive
Torquay United kept their National League South title hopes alive as they won 1-0 at top-of-the-table Truro Jay's second-half strike was enough for the Gulls who move up to third in the table with two games to play. They are a point off new leaders Worthing and level on points with Truro, who drop to second two points separate the top five sides in the league - 10-man Worthing drew 1-1 with Eastbourne Borough, who drop to fifth after Dorking Wanderers were 4-2 winners over Hampton and Richmond. In difficult conditions neither side could break the deadlock before the interval as Luke Jephcott and Christian Oxlade-Chamberlain had chances for the hosts while Jay twice went close for the started the second period well, but it was Torquay had the first decent chance after an hour - Ryan Law's mistake let in Jordan Young, but he and Cody Cooke got in each other's way and the opportunity went begging.A great challenge from Jordan Dyer denied Truro's Jaze Kabia soon after before Torquay took a 66th-minute lead. in front of a record crowd of 3,306 at the Truro Community showed excellent footwork on the edge of the area before the former Exeter City player curled a left-footed effort into the top corner. Cooke blasted over from close range seven minutes later before Truro top-scorer Tyler Harvey saw a good chance saved by James Hamon with nine minutes to go. Truro went close from a stoppage-time corner but they could not find a way past their former goalkeeper Hamon as the Cornish side lost for just the second time in 16 games.
