Throgmorton Cup semi-final Bodmin 2 Saltash Utd 1 (Tuesday) SALTASH will have to be content with renewing hostilities with Bodmin in the title race after a rather inept display at Pennygillam that saw them miss out on the May Day Monday final against Tavistock at Torpoint. The Ashes had already beaten Bodmin in the semi- finals of the Cornwall Senior Cup, and the pair meet again in the last four of the Charity Cup, but on this occasion it was Bodmin who were up for the game. Bodmin deserved their victory at the end of the day, although their was not a lot in it, but they always looked to be more committed to the cause. It was not until Ashes manager Kevin Hendy brought on Glen Palmer and Marc Thorne on 64 minutes that they began to put pressure on goalkeeper Kevin Miller and his defence. Saltash started well, with Gavin Coulton's drive flying over Miller's bar, before Karl Turner cleared Toby Clark's header off the line. But from that juncture it was Bodmin who created the chances, with Turner volleying a good chance wide of the near post before Danny O'Hagan fired over the bar from 10 yards. Thankfully for the Ashes, Steve Ovens completely scuffed his shot when only 10 yards out and in the centre of the goal, before goalkeeper Chris Wearing made a fine save to deny O'Hagan. As is often the case when a side are enjoying the best of the play, they find themselves behind, as Saltash took a stoppage-time lead in spectacular fashion. The ball dropped nicely for Mark Chapman, and he unleashed a great 25-yard dipping volley that Miller did well to get both hands to. But the power of the shot meant the former top-flight goalkeeper could only push the ball up into the air to bounce down behind him and into the net. Bodmin came straight at Saltash after the break and Wearing had to be alert to deny substitute Huw Morgan with a save from point-blank range. Bodmin continued to call the shots and it was not a surprise when Turner's corner found the impressive Sean Flynn heading home at the near post. Flynn was very fortunate to escape an early bath with one particularly bad challenge on Danny Lewis and surely a stronger referee would have been dishing out a straight red card and, at the least, a second yellow, but the official on this occasion deemed the challenge only worthy of a short lecture. Saltash came more into the game after the introduction of Palmer and Thorne, but it is easy in hindsight to say they should have been on earlier. Unfortunately, for the Ashes' fans, it was a pure rush of blood by goalkeeper Wearing six minutes from time, who raced recklessly out of his goal to challenge Morgan out wide on the right, that gifted Bodmin the winner. The pacy Welshman skipped past Wearing's despairing lunge to cross the ball into the middle for former Liskeard striker Paul Baker to head into the roof of an unguarded net and send his side into the final at Torpoint.