Los Pumitas Make History, downing South Africa in England

Following on from defeating France during the week Los Pumitas made it two wins from two matches in the 2016 World Rugby Junior World Championship this afternoon, defeating South Africa 19-13 in Manchester, England.

The Baby Boks started well, with fly half Curwin Bosch opening the scoring in the 5th minute. It would be cancelled out by Domingo Miotti six minutes later.

With a further penalty from either fly half the scores were tied at 6-6 after 35 minutes. Los Pumitas then scored the game’s opening try, and the only one of the first half, with right winger Tomás Malanos touching down.

Having the half time lead Los Pumitas played a second half match to hold off the South Africans and win the fixture.

The strategy proved effective with two second half Miotti penalties being sufficient for Los Pumitas to stay in front throughout. The Baby Boks did threaten at stages, though, with loosehead prop Franco Van der Berg going over.

The try was not enough as ill discipline from the Baby Boks complicated their performance as two players were yellow carded.

ARGENTINA 19
Tries – T. Malanos
Cons – D. Miotti
Pens – D. Miotti 4

SOUTH AFRICA 13
Tries – F. van der Berg
Cons – C. Bosch
Pens – C. Bosch 2

ARGENTINA
1 Rubén Ricco, 2 Gaspar Baldunciel, 3 Santiago Medrano, 4 Franco Molina, 5 Ignacio Calas, 6 Marcos Kremer, 7 Conrado Roura, 8 Vicente Boronat, 9 Patricio Baronio, 10 Domingo Miotti, 11 Julián Domínguez, 12 Santiago Mare, 13 Juan Cruz Mallía (capt.), 14 Tomás Malanos, 15 Bautista Delguy

Replacements: 16 Román Pretz, 17 Santiago Pulella, 18 Gonzalo del Pazo, 19 Mariano Romanini, 20 Bautista Stávile, 21 Lautaro Bazán, 22 Teo Castiglioni, 23 José Barros Sosa

SOUTH AFRICA
1 Franco van den Berg, 2 Tango Balekile, 3 Carlü Sadie, 4 Eduard Zandberg, 5 Eli Snyman, 6 Zain Davids, 7 Ernst van Rhyn, 8 Junior Pokomela, 9 James Hall, 10 Curwin Bosch, 11 Mosolwa Mafuma, 12 Franco Naude, 13 Jeremy Ward (capt.), 14 Sibusiso Nkosi, 15 Manie Libbok

Replacements: 16 Jan-Henning Campher, 17 Nicolaas Oosthuizen, 18 Jaco Holtzhausen, 19 Ruben de Villiers, 20 Cobus Wiese, 21 Marco Jansen van Vuren, 22 JT Jackson, 23 Edwill van der Merwe

Referee: Craig Evans (WRU)
Assistants: Thomas Charabas (FFR) & Greg MacDonald (RFU)
TMO: Geoff Warren (RFU)