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Argentina’s U19’s claimed victory over Uruguay’s U20’s, winning 39-10 this afternoon in Buenos Aires. The Home side’s victory continues on the solid year of Argentina’s U20’s who finished 6th in the Junior World Championship in France.
Uruguay are preparing for World Rugby’s second Tier U20’s competition. The 2018 Junior World Trophy will take place in Romania in August and September.
Their fixture today against Argentina was preparation for the tournament, a competition in which they will be aiming high.
For Argentina’s U19’s the match was also of vital significance. Argentina will play host to the 2019 Junior World Championship. As such the basis of the team for that tournament was present today against Uruguay’s U20’s.
Argentina’s U19’s were in full control of the scoreboard today at the Hindú club. An early 13-0 lead was established and was never under threat as the game unfolded.
Three second half tries from Argentina U19’s extended the advantage and secured what was a comfortable home victory.
Uruguay played their best rugby in the final stages. Good work saw Los Teritos fighting back to score a try of their own. Yet it would be Argentina who would have the final say. A late try, their fifth of the match, secured a 29 point victory.
ARGENTINA
1 Julián Martín, 2 Ramiro Gurovich, 3 Román González, 4 Lucas Bur, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Ignacio Gandini, 7 Federico Parnas, 8 Federico Simondi, 9 Gonzalo García, 10 Gerónimo Prisciantelli 11 Rodrigo Isgro, 12 Santiago Chocobares, 13 Juan Pablo Castro (capt.), 14 Juan Rosas Paz, 15 Franco Giúdice
Replacements: 16 Martín Santiago, 17 Thomas Gallo, 18 Estanislao Carullo, 19 Augusto Vaccarino, 20 Manuel Bernstein, 21 Simón Benítez Cruz, 22 Marcos De Sanctis, 23 Tomás Acosta Pimentel
URUGUAY
15 Baltazar Amaya, 14 Juan Apblo Costabile, 13 Alfonso Costa, 12 Manuel Portella, 11 Mateo Viñals, 10 Matías D’avanzo, 9 Juan Nicola, 8 Santiago Civetta,7 James McCubbin, 6 Maxime Sonneveld, 5 Joaquín García, 4 Martín Darracq, 3 Ignacio Peculo,2 Emiliano Feccennini, 1 Joaquín Jaunsolo
Replacements: 16 Nicolás Buysan, 17 Francisco Martinera, 18 Faustino Etchegorry, 19 Felipe Aliaga, 20 Cesar Riviere, 21 Alfonso Cat, 22 Juan Martín Cattivelli, 23 José Iruleguy
