RWC Center Starts for Los Ceibos in warm-up match

RWC 2019 center Lucas Mensa is among the starting players for Los Ceibos’ debut match. The second Argentine professional side will take-on Los Pumitas in a warm-up match on Friday ahead of the Súper Liga Americana de Rugby (SLAR) debut.

Mensa starts at inside center, forming a mid-field partnership with Los Ceibos’ first signing, Tomás Cubical. They are to be joined by additional regular names from the Argentina XV such as second-rowers Jerónimo Ureta and Ignacio Calas; back-rowers Lucas Santa Cruz, Lautaro Bávaro and Santiago Montagner; and fly half Martín Elías.

The team will make their SLAR debut on March 06 at home against the Olímpia Lions.

LOS CEIBOS
1 Federico Wegrzyn, 2 José Luis González, 3 Juan Pablo Zeiss, 4 Jerónimo Ureta, 5 Ignacio Calas, 6 Lucas Santa Cruz, 7 Lautaro Bávaro, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Ignacio Inchauspe, 10 Martín Elías, 11 Facundo Cordero, 12 Lucas Mensa, 13 Tomás Cubilla, 14 Martín Cancelliere, 15 Juan Bautista Daireaux

Replacements: 16 Rodrigo Martínez, 17 Leonel Oveido, 18 Lucas Favre, 19 Franco Molina, 20 Carlos Repetto, 21 Santiago Ruíz, 22 Conrado Roura, 23 Santiago Portillo, 24 Gonzalo García, 25 Teo Castiglioni, 26 Mateo Carreras, 27 Facundo Ferrario, 28 Leopoldo Herrera, 29 Tomás Albornoz, 30 Francisco Minervino, 31 Rodrigo Fernández Criado, 32 Joaquín Pellandini, 33 Pablo Dimcheff