TO USE golfing analagy "It's all square with one to play". That is the situation going into the final weekend of the Jolly's Drinks ECB Cornwall Premier League season, with Truro and St Just, remarkably, locked together on 347 points at the top of the table with just one game to play - playing against each other at Cape Road in a title showdown next Sunday.

If the weather turns for the worst, and no play is possible or an abandoned game leaves both sides with the same number of points, Truro will take the title having gained one more win during the season.

It promises to be an epic encounter with no doubt many making the trek to the western cricketing outpost for the climax to the season in the top flight. On the positive side Truro will reflect on the comfortable win at home in mid May against St Just but the two recent visits to Cape Road don't have such happy memories with the Warren's Vinter Cup Final defeat followed by the late collapse in the league game that saw the city side happy to just survive for a losing draw, when at one stage cruising to victory. How important was that last hour now?

Truro set up the last day showdown with a remarkably comprehensive home win over last year's champions Newquay on Saturday by the huge margin of 237 runs.

Having been put in their first objective was to set a challenging score and this was achieved in style thanks to a century against his former team from Cornwall Cricket Development Officer Tim Marrion. He hit 116 with two sixes and 11 fours off 125 balls to hold the innings together, being fourth out in the 48th over at 243.

In the quest for late runs he skied Ben Rapson to Andy Hancock at mid on. Earlier Neil Stoddard was caught behind for 16 with the score at 34 in the 13th over. Tom Sharp became a second victim for Jim Boyland, having made 17 when he fell lbw with the score at 64.

Ben Price looked in good touch striking 32 off 49 balls, including two sixes into the Malpas Road off the luckless Steve Mitchell whose four overs cost 35 runs. Price and Marrion added 88 for the fourth wicket before Price, attempting a straight six off Rapson bowling from the City end, only found a grateful Peter Bolland holding the catch in front of the sightscreen.

There was no respite for the Newquay attack, however, with the entry of Ryan Driver, playing his last game before taking up a teaching appointment in the Channel Islands. He ended a superb season in style making 71 off 63 balls as Truro reached an imposing 287-6. Rob Harrison, Jim Boyland and Rapson took two wickets apiece.

The Newquay innings started, as can only be described as - sensationally. Driver bowled the always dangerous Tim Walton in just the second over for the best of starts. Then Lee Caddy knocked back the stumps of Rapson and Barry Purchase in successive balls.

Rob Harrison was the hat-trick victim, edging to Jon Kent at slip, who was immediately engulfed by an understandably jubilant team. There was more drama as Neil Ivamy all but played on the next ball, with it trickling past leg stump. It mattered little though as Caddy, bowling straight, full and aggressively from the river end in overcast conditions, sent the left arm spinner's off-stump flying with the first ball of his next over.

It was Newquay's fifth successive duck, as the board, incredibly, read 9-5 in the fifth over. Caddy had taken four wickets in five balls. Boyland, who had witnessed the carnage from the other end, and skipper Pete Bolland got into double figures to bring some normality adding 21 in seven overs before Boyland was lbw to Driver for 15.

Three wickets then fell with the score at 40 as Bolland edged to Kent at slip for 14, off the excellent Caddy. Driver then knocked back Charlie Phillips' middle stump and Caddy uprooted Andy Hancock's leg stump - the sixth duck of the innings.

Caddy claimed his seventh wicket as the end came quickly at just past 6 o'clock in the 19th over as the visitors were shot out for 50.

Bowling unchanged Caddy took 7-32 and Driver 3-17 to give Truro a big confidence boost before Sunday's decider.