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Paraguay romped past Guyana, winning 86-7 in day two of the Americas Rugby Challenge in Medellín, Colombia. Having defeated Mexico 45-36 on day one Paraguay can now prepare for the final fixture with an eye to a Grand Slam.
For Guyana the loss marked back-to-back heavy defeats. On day one the Green Machine fell to a 71-7 loss against Colombia. In that match the game was over before half time. Today, however, Guyana were beaten within the opening quarter.
Sebastian Urbieta opened the scoring, handing an early penalty for Paraguay. Rather than look to build a lead through further shots at goal, Paraguay did so through tries. Nine minutes into the match and Los Yákares were 15-0 ahead with Santiago Cabrera, and Leonardo Glizt both scoring. Urbieta landed one conversion.
The tries would not stop there. In the 14th Urbieta converted tries two tries as back-to-back scores were made by Renato Cardona, and Juan González. The 29-0 lead became 34-0 in the 18th minute with Héctor Gayoso adding to Paraguay’s romp past Guyana.
Camilo Orrego scored next for Paraguay, doing so in the 21st minute. Already out of the match Guyana would, nonetheless, strike back with Selwin Henry crossing the the Green Machine. Ryan Gonsalves’ conversion of Henry’s try would be the only score of the match for Guyana.
33 minutes in and Paraguay went 38-7 ahead. Scoring his second of the match was Cardona. Additional tries to César De Brix and González saw Paraguay past 50 points at up to 60-7 at half time.
In the second half Paraguay added three further tries to win by 86-7. In doing so the Paraguayans can finish no lower than second place in the Americas Rugby Challenge. Their final match will be against Colombia on Saturday while Guyana take on Mexico. Before then Colombia and Mexico face-off, doing so this afternoon.
SCORING
GUYANA 7
Tries – S. Henry (30’)
Cons – R. Gonsalves 1/1 (31’)
Yellow cards – S. Phillips (54’)
PARAGUAY 86
Tries – L. Glizt 2 (7’, 68’), S. Cabrera (10’), R. Cardona 2 (13’, 33’), J. Gonzalez 3 (15’, 40’, 48’), H. Gayoso (19’), C. Orrego (22’), C. De Brix (37’), G. Alvarado (55’), M. Arevalo (74’)
Cons – S. Urbieta 9/13 (11’, 14’, 16’, 23’, 34’, 40’, 56’, 69’, 75’)
Pens – S. Urbieta 1/1 (3’)
TEAMS
GUYANA
1 Cyon Kitt (17 Jason Tyrell 69’), 2 Allain Crawford (16 Ahmad Isaacs HT), 3 Rondel McArthur, 4 Kevon David (18 Walter George 78’), 5 Vallon Adams, 6 Richard Staglon, 7 Toby David, 8 Cloyd Prowell (19 Jamal Angus 49’), 9 Ryan Gonsalves (capt.), 10 Lancelot Adonis, 11 Selwin Henry, 12 Claudius Butts (22 Godfrey Broomes 49’), 13 Peabo Hamilton (20 Sean Phillips HT), 14 Avery Corbin (23 Jamal Darrell 69’), 15 Joseph Rahaman
Not used: 21 Daniel de Abreu
PARAGUAY
1 Santiago Cabrera (17 Juan Inglés 47’), 2 César De Brix (16 Juan Gavigán 59’), 3 Daniel Cabral (18 Martín Sitjar 61’), 4 Alfredo Brusquetti, 5 Álvaro Báez (19 Mariano Garcete 54’), 6 Enrique Riera (20 Gonzalo Alvarado 54’), 7 Carlos Plate, 8 Leonardo Glizt, 9 Renato Cardona (21 Gastón Navas 52’), 10 Sebastián Urbieta, 11 Juan González (23 Horacio Agüero 49’), 12 Camilo Orrego (22 Diego Argaña 56’), 13 Mateo Arevalo, 14 Fabrizio Cabrera (capt.), 15 Héctor Gayoso
