Saints deservedly defeated second placed crediton and their next opponents Exeter Saracens a big favour in the promotion stakes. Coach Richard Lamb knew that Crediton would be strong in the forwards especially their driving mauls, and he worked hard to counter this in training during the week and it paid off handsomely. Lamb said "We got our tactics spot on and played for the full 80 minutes, I was very pleased with the whole team commitment".

Points were hard to come by in the first half with Saints dominating territory and possession but struggling to break down a resolute home defence. Crediton struggled to cope when the ball was kicked behind them forcing their big forwards to turn and Saints wingers Colin Cooper and Tom Crapp followed every kick and harried their opposite numbers relentlessly. The visitors finally got on the scoreboard with 2 minutes remaining in the first half, with Saints pressuring the Crediton line the home forwards gave away a penalty at a ruck and up stepped fly half Andy Ashwin to make no mistake and give St Austell a 3-0 lead at the half way point.

Saints carried on the second half in the same style as the first with their forwards never letting the Crediton eight settle and giving their backs plenty of ball, the home defence was stretched with centre James Earp and Kieran Murphy finding holes but somehow Saints didn't score and all they had to show for their efforts was another Ashwin penalty from 30 metres out to put them 6-0 up. Crediton were getting nowhere running the ball out of defence so they tried to kick the ball back to St Austell, full back for the Saints Ian Venner likes nothing better than running at the opposition and made ground every time the ball was kicked to him and set up many attacking moves for his team.

Such was the visitors dominance in territory that Crediton hardly had a chance to use their driving maul and when they did, Saints managed to break it up and the danger was over. With 10 minutes to go Crediton upped their game and although not looking like scoring a try scrum half Tom Ronchetti kicked a penalty to bring the score back to 6-3, all credit to Crediton who levelled the scores with 3 minutes remaining when Saints were adjudged to have come into the side of a ruck.

Saints could have gone into their shells and settled for the draw but after being on top during most of the game were not going to settle for this. Straight from the restart Crediton kicked the ball forward into the hands of Saints skipper Adam Kellow who made ground before passing to fellow backrower Rob Jeffs who set up a ruck 25 metres out and quick ball enabled scrum half Matt Shepherd time to release his half back partner Ashwin who saw a gap in the defence and darted over the line to put the Saints back in the lead at 11-6, the conversion was missed but Saints played out the final minute to record a deserved victory.