Tucumán too good for Paraguay

Tucumán were far too good for Paraguay today, winning a friendly 95-8. The Northern Argentine province played at a great pace to run Paraguay ragged as former Jaguares Head Coach Raúl Pérez watched on.

Los Naranjas firmly controlled  possession, forcing Paraguay to do little more other than defend throughout much of the match. The dominance was established by the Tucumán forward pack who were able to gain ground at will and enable opportunities for the backs.

Yet while the story of there afternoon was a dominant performance, and scoreline, for Los Naranjas after 13 minutes of play there was a contest. Paraguay’s 8 points were scored up until this point in time and it saw Los Yákares leading 8-7.

The remainder of the match was one-way traffic with Los Naranjas running in seven opening half tries and crossing for eight further scores in the second half. Argentina XV winger Pablo Avellaneda impressed in scoring a hat-trick.

SCORING

TUCUMAN
Try: Sbrocco (2), Ledesma (2), González, Ferro, Avellaneda (3), Cartier, López Islas (2), Molinuevo, De la Jara
Conversion: Ledesma (4), Molinuevo (6)

PARAGUAY
Try: Garcete
Penalty: Matiauda

TEAMS

TUCUMAN
1 Lucio Urueña, 2 José Luis González, 3 Franco Gómez Urrutia, 4 Tobías Ruffino, 5 Jorge Herrera, 6 Lucas Santamarina, 7 Mariano Perondi, 8 Nicolás Sbrocco, 9 Nicolás Alvizo, 10 Máximo Ledesma, 11 Agustín Cortés, 12 Gabriel Ascárate, 13 Nicanor Álves Rojano, 14 Pablo Avellaneda, 15 Stefano Ferro

PARAGUAY
1 Joaquín Vera, 2 Emilio Gorostiaga, 3 Enrique Quinteros, 4 Marcos Bravo, 5 Mariano Garcete, 6 Ariel Núñez, 7 Gonzalo Alvarado, 8 David Sosa, 9 Gastón Navas, 10 Sebastián Urbieta, 11 Matías Barreto, 12 Mateo Arévalos, 13 Santiago Alamo, 14 Marcelo Matiauda, 15 Sergio Alvarenga