Yacare and Selknam Thriller Goes Down to the Wire

The battle of Asuncíon went down to the wire on Saturday evening. Yacare and Selknam both scored two tries each in a match decided at the final whistle. Yacare started well before Selknam fought back. The match had parity between the two teams.

• Yacare had a dream start with scrum-half Juan Cruz Strada scoring in the try zone following a break from center Francisco Diez.
• The Paraguayan side led 14-3 after 11 minutes; the second try was a penalty try. Yacare’s remaining 15 points all came from Joaquín Lamas penalties.
• Two occasions saw Selknam punished for trying to run the ball out from deep inside their own half only to be penalized.
• Wingers Federico Kennedy and Nicolás Garfulilc scored tries for Selknam.
• Lamas’ five penalties were one more than Tomás Salas’ four; notwithstanding, two other Lamas penalties hit the posts.
• Selknam had an opportunity to score a 79th minute try but knocked-on meters from the Yacare try zone.
• Yacare got four competition points to occupy 3rd position behind Los Tarucas and Peñarol.
• Selknam claimed a losing bonus point to be above Os Cobras and, the yet to debut, Los Pampas.

YACARE (29)
Try – JC Strada (2′); Penalty Try (11′)
Con – J Lamas (3′); No Kick (11′)
Pen – J Lamas 5 (21′, 31′, 58′, 69′, 75′)

SELKNAM (26)
Try – F Kennedy (16′); N Garafulic (49′)
Con – T Salas 2 (17′, 50′)
Pen – T Salas 4 (8′, 40′, 54′, 71′)
YC – R Martínez (11′)

YACARE
1 Daniel Cabral, 2 Axel Zapata, 3 Enzo Egea Bordon, 4 Lucas Sommer, 5 Mariano Garcete (capt.), 6 Felipe Puertas, 7 Ariel Núñez, 8 Santiago Ruiz, 9 Juan Cruz Strada, 10 Joaquín Lamas, 11 Juan González, 12 Ramiro Amarilla, 13 Francisco Diez, 14 Arturo López, 15 Valentino di Capua

Replacements: 16 Jordi Chavez, 17 Ezequiel Reyes, 18 Luís Enrique Quinteros, 19 Ramiro Parada, 20 Mateo Rodríguez Vazquez, 21 Gonzalo Bareiro, 22 Sebastián Urbieta, 23 Facundo Paiva

SELKNAM
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Simón Donoso, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agustín Toth, 6 Alfonso Escobar, 7 Raimundo Martínez, 8 Joaquín Milesi, 9 Benjamín Videla, 10 Tomás Salas, 11 Nicolás Garafulic, 12 Nicolás Saab, 13 Domingo Saavedra (capt.), 14 Federico Kennedy, 15 Juan Cruz Reyes

Replacements: 16 Norman Aguayo, 17 Nahuel Debiassi, 18 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 19 Bruno Sáez, 20 Andrés Kuzmanic, 21 Martín Sigren, 22 Marcelo Torrealba, 23 Felipe Méndez

Referee: Pablo Deluca (AR)
Assistants: Federico Solari (AR); Sergio Alvarenga (PY)
TMO: Marcos Andrés Demestri Benítez (PY)

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