Los Pumitas Power Past Georgia in Game 2

Los Pumitas powered past Georgia this afternoon in game 2 at the Hindú Club in Buenos Aires. The 49-11 result completes a 2-0 series win. The Eastern Europeans will now travel to Uruguay to play a further two matches.

The Argentina and Georgia under 20 teams will both compete at this year’s World Rugby Junior World Championship in Manchester England. The best young junior players from the two countries are candidates to play at the next Rugby World Cup with some of the Pumitas having even played for the Argentina XV in the ongoing Americas Rugby Championship.

Scorers

Argentina
Try: Stávile, Elías, Barros Sosa, Paolucci, Castiglioni (2), Malanos
Conversion: Miotti (3), Elías (4)

Georgia
Try: Aprasidze
Penalty: Aprasidze (2)

Argentina
1 Felipe Helman, 2 Gaspar Baldunciel, 3 Santiago Medrano, 4 Franco Molina, 5 Marcos Kremer, 6 Benito Paolucci (capt.), 7 Bautista Stávile, 8 Facundo Domínguez, 9 Lautaro Bazán, 10 Domingo Miotti, 11 Bautista Delguy, 12 Santiago Mare, 13 Gonzalo Muñiz Bullrich, 14 José Barros Sosa, 15 Martín Elías

Georgia
1 Ushangi Tcheishvili, 2 Lasha Sajaia, 3 Nika Neparidze (capt.), 4 Mikheil Babunashvili, 5 Demur Epremidze, 6 Giorgi Tsutskiridze, 7 Irakli Tskhadadze, 8 Mikheli Gorgaslidze, 9 Gela Aprasidze, 10 Davit Modzghrishvili, 11 David Mekhi, 12 Sandro Iluridze, 13 Giorgi Koshadze, 14 Lado Miminoshvili, 15 Irakli Svanidze