Selknam Stay Alive With Gutsy Upset Win over Pampas

Selknam went to Buenos Aires are got the job done on Monday evening. The Chileans were 18-16 winners at La Catedral. The result means Los Pampas have not yet qualified for the Semi Finals; an Argentine win would have seen them secured of a spot. Instead, Selknam’s gutsy upset win sees them staying alive and still in with a chance of reaching the play-off’s.

• A late change saw Nicolás D’Amorim forced out and replaced by Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel. Francisco Lusarreta was added inn place of Pérez Rachel as a replacement.
• Both teams had forwards yellow carded in the first quarter.
• Tomás Salas opened the scoring with a penalty on 6 minutes. Renthel Estanislao missed one on 18 minutes but landed another penalty on 22 minutes.
• Salvador Lues scored the only try of the first-half. Salas converted and added a penalty for a 13-3 lead.
• Winger Jeronimo Ulloa scored for Los Pampas on 48 minutes. Estanislao missed the conversion.
• Replacement Norman Aguayo scored to give Selknam a 10-point lead. Salas’ conversion missed.
• Ignacio Bottazzini scored for Los Pampas with the match winding down. Estanislao’s conversion was off target which meant the teams were separated by 2 points.
• Los Pampas have now lost back-to-back matches. They fell 32-26 to Yacare in Asunción.
• Selknam rebounded from a 41-21 defeat against Los Tarucas in Tucumán.
• Selknam won without captain Martín Sigren and fellow first-choice players Domingo Saavedra and Marcelo Torrealba.

PAMPAS (16)
TRY – J Ulloa (48′)
PEN – R Estanislao (22′, 67′)
YC – T Rapetti (9′)

SELKNAM (18)
TRY – S Lues (26′); N Aguayo (63′)
CON – T Salas (27′)
PEN – T Salas (6′, 49′)
YC – A Böhme (17′)

PAMPAS
1 Miguel Prince, 2 Ramiro Gurovich, 3 Tomás Rapetti, 4 Leo Mazzini, 5 Federico Lavanini, 6 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 7 Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, 8 Joaquín Moro, 9 Ignacio Inchauspe, 10 Renthel Estanislao, 11 Jerónimo Ulloa, 12 Justo Piccardo, 13 Juan Pablo Castro, 14 Nahuel Clausen, 15 Jerónimo Solveyra

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Matías Medrano, 18 Javier Corvalán, 19 Franco Carrera, 20 Francisco Lusarreta, 21 Mateo Albanese, 22 Juan Penoucos, 23 Juan Pedro Bernasconi

SELKNAM
1 Salvador Lues, 2 Augusto Böhme, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno Saez, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Raimundo Martínez, 8 Joaquín Milesi, 9 Benjamín Videla, 10 Tomás Salas, 11 Nicolás Garafulic, 12 Felipe Méndez, 13 Matías Garafulic, 14 Federico Kennedy, 15 Luca Strabucchi

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 Javier Carrasco, 18 Nahuel DiBiassi, 19 Emilio Shea, 20 Agustín Toth, 21 Santiago Valenzuela, 22 Ignacio Arias, 23 Juan Cruz Reyes

Referee: Pablo Deluca (AR)
Assistants: Mauro Rossi (AR); Juan Maio (AR)
TMO: Marcelo Pilara (AR)

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