Los Teritos fell 56-22 to Samoa this morning in a third round match in the World Rugby Junior World Trophy in Harare, Zimbabwe.
It was back-against-the-wall for the Uruguayans throughout as Samoa dominated the early exchanges with their physicality. Los Teritos, though, fought-hard to improve the scoresheet late in the piece.
Samoa’s strong performance had the Pacific Islanders leading 56-8 at one point which included a fifteen minute raid in which Samoa scored four tries.
Following the loss Uruguay is to now play against Hong Kong on Sunday in the 5th place final.
LOS TERITOS
1 Rodrigo Lamé, 2 Yamandú Arburúas 3 Guillermo Pujadas, 4 Juan Diego Quintero, 5 Lorenzo Surraco, 6 Agustín Ortas (capt.), 7 Matías Brignoni, 8 Santiago Civetta, Santiago Arata, 10 Felipe Etcheverry, Martín Fitipaldi, 12 Iñaki Ormaechea, 13 Tomás Inciarte, 14 Bautista Mascia, 15 Lucas Durán
Replacements: Gonzalo Couto, Agustín Sosa, Michael Johnson, Federico Bruno, Guillermo Williamson, Sebastián Pfeiff and Rafael Olaso.