Tarucas Enjoy Strong End to Rookie Season at Home against Yacare

Los Tarucas’ rookie season of Super Rugby Americas has concluded. Los Tucumanos ended their campaign on a high against Yacare with a 44-24 victory. The match concluded the regular season which had determined the Semi Finals 24-hours earlier. Selknam’s upset win over Los Dogos in Córdoba meant Los Tarucas vs Yacare  would not have any weight in determining the final four.

• The home side enjoyed a dream start with fullback Stefano Ferro slicing through for a try in the opening minute. Nicolás Roger made it 7-0 with the conversion.
• Joaquín Lamas responded for Yacare with a penalty on 12 minutes. Yacare did not score again in the half.
• Thiago Sbrocco continued his excellent rookie season. He score Los Tarucas’ second try. Nicolás Roger converted the try and followed with two penalties.
• Los Tarucas added to their 20-3 half-time lead with an early second half try to center Bautista Estofan.
• An unfortunate bounce of the ball from Mariano García Ascarate’s boot resulted in Yacare’s first try. Fullback Julián Quetglas scored in the right corner.
• Pumita Álvaro García Iandolino made a strong impact from the replacements as he entered and scored.
• Ramiro Amarilla and Santiago Aguillar traded tries before Quetglas went over for his second.
• Los Tarucas finished SRA 2025 in 5th place on 34 points. Selknam had been on 32 prior to facing Los Dogos on Friday.
• Yacare finish the regular season in 6th place on 31 points.
• Nicolás Roger finishes the season on 110 points. This is second to Juan Bautista Baronio with 148.

TARUCAS (44)
TRY – S Ferro (1′); T Sbrocco (21′); B Estofan (43′); Á García Iandolino (60′); S Aguillar (70′)
CON – N Roger 4 (2′, 21′, 43′, 60′); I Cerruti (71′)
PEN – N Roger 2 (27′, 34′)
YC – D Fortuny (76′)

YACARE (24)
TRY – J Quetglas 2 (53′, 73′); R Amarilla (64′)
CON – J Lamas 3 (54′, 65′, 74′)
PEN – J Lamas (12′)
YC –  M Garcete (34′)

1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas, 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Luciano Acevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Tomás Medina, 14 Martiniano Arrieta, 15 Stefano Ferro

Replacements: 16 Diego Fortuny, 17 Julián Martín 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Álvaro García Iandolino, 20 Santiago Aguilar, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Ignacio Cerrutti, 23 Mariano García Ascarate

YACARE
1 Nicolás Jurado, 2 Axel Zapata, 3 Rolando Portillo, 4 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 5 Lucas Sommer, 6 Nicolás Parada Heit, 7 Felipe Puertas, 8 Santiago Ruiz, 9 Gonzalo Bareiro, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan Gonzalez, 12 Valentino DiCapua, 13 Ramiro Amarilla, 14 Arturo López, 15 Julián Quetglas

Replacements: 16 Jordi Chávez, 17 Camilo Blasco, 18 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 19 Juan José Heisecke, 20 Ariel Núñez, 21 Kalin Ayub Burli, 22 Rafael Bareiro, 23 Joaquín Mussi

Referee: Francisco González (UY)
Assistants: Frank Méndez (CL); Pedro López Vildoza (AR)
TMO: Álvaro del Barco (AR)