Indiscipline Costs Tarucas Badly against Pampas

Indiscipline cost Los Tarucas badly against Los Pampas on Friday. Played in Buenos Aires, the visitors from Tucumán were ahead at half-time and extended their lead in the second-half only to collapse due to conceding a series of penalties. Frustrating for Los Tarucas was that many of the penalties conceded were soft. Los Tucumanos lost cleanly in the end.

• Los Pampas were 39-22 winners at La Catedral.
• Los Pampas outscored Los Tarucas by 5 tries to 2.
• Back-rowers Nicolás D’Amorim and Santiago Aguilar scored in the first-half. Pampas fullback Jerónimo Solveyra gave his side the lead late in the half. This was so despite the home side briefly being down to thirteen players.
• Los Tarucas held a 14-12 lead at half-time and extended it to a 17-12 lead on 43 minutes. From there the visitors fell apart. Basic error including kicks out on the full, knock-on’s and wayward passes cost them.
• Los Pampas went ahead on 54 minutes after a pick-and-go try from Juan Penoucos which Estanislao Renthel converted.
• Two Tarucas yellow cards followed. Los Pampas scored a penalty try to claim the bonus point and be out of reach.
• The teams both scored in the final minute. Stefano Ferro’s missed a quick conversion from under the posts which allowed time for a restart. Bad handling saw from the kick-off gave Los Pampas possession and they scored out wide through Alfonso Latorre.

PAMPAS (39)
TRY – N D’Amorim (11′); J Solveyra (36′); J Penoucos (54′); Penalty Try (66′); A Latorre (80′)
CON – E Renthel 2/3 (12′, 55′); No Kick (66′); F Quinn 1/1 (80′)
YC – JC Pérez Rachel (25′); T Rapetti (33′)

TARUCAS (22)
TRY – S Aguilar (30′); S Ferro (80′)
CON – N Roger 0/1; S Ferro 0/1
PEN – N Roger 4/4 (4′, 26′, 39′, 43′)
YC – A Sarelli (62′); J Martín (66′)

PAMPAS
1 Matías Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Tomás Rapetti, 4 Juan Penoucos, 5 Federico Lavanini, 6 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 7 Nicolás D’Amorim, 8 Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, 9 Eliseo Morales, 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Nahuel Clausen, 12 Justo Piccardo, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Alfonso Latorre, 15 Jerónimo Solveyra

Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusarreta, 17 Miguel Prince, 18 Bautista Bosch, 19 Franco Carrera, 20 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 21 Mateo Albanese, 22 Ignacio Inchauspe, 23 Francisco Quinn

1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Tomás Bartolini (capt.), 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Facundo García Hamilton, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Javier Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Santiago Aguilar, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Tomás Medina, 13 José Gianotti, 14 Baltazar García, 15 Stefano Ferro

Replacements: 16 Juan Manuel Vivas, 17 Julián Martín, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Santiago Romano, 20 Thiago Sbrocco, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Juan Manuel Molinuevo, 23 Bautista Estofan

Referee: Juan Manuel López (AR)
Assistants: Luca Solda (AR); Simon Larrubia (AR)
TMO: Marcelo Pilara (AR)

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