Selknam and Dogos Play Out High Scoring Thriller in Santiago

Santiago del Chile was the venue for an exciting rugby match between Selknam and Los Dogos on Saturday. The Chilean side were 45-40 winners over the reigning Super Rugby Americas Champions. They converted a 24-7 victory into a first-ever victory over the team from Córdoba, Argentina.

• The 45-40 win was Selknam’s first victory over Los Dogos. The Córdoba side won three of the previous four matches between them while they competed to a 19-19 draw in Argentina in 2024.
• Eleven tries were scored in the match. Selknam scored five tries and Los Dogos scored six.
• The final Selknam try gave them a 36-14 lead. Los Dogos scored four tries after that point in the match.
• Tomás Salas kicked four penalties and converted four tries for an 88.9% kicking success rate. He leads the SRA 2025 scoring with 49 points.
• Selknam opened both halves with early tries. Center Matías Garafulic scored in the 1st minute from a loose opposition pass. Winger Federico Kennedy went over in the first minute of the second half.
• Agustín Moyano looms as the favorite to claim Argentina’s vacancy at scrum-half. He scored two tries to take his season total to five tries from three SRA 2025 matches.
• Selknam lost Domingo Saavedra to injury in the 12th minute. National captain, Martín Sigren, took over the captaincy.
• Selknam had a solid lineout and a slight edge at the scrum. Los Dogos overthrew three early lineouts deep inside the Selknam half.
• Selknam won the battle at the breakdown. Los Dogos found space down Selknam’s defensive left late in the half to run in three late tries in succession.
• Selknam now join Peñarol at the top of the table on 10 competition points. Los Dogos and Los Pampas are tied for third on 6 points. This is ahead of the final match of the round between Yacare and Los Tarucas.

SELKNAM (45)
Try – M Garafulic (1′); R Martínez (19′); J Milesi (34′); F Kennedy (41′); M Torrealba (51′)
Con – T Salas 4/5 (2′, 20′, 35′, 52′)
Pen – T Salas 4/4 (26′, 56′, 60′, 72′)

DOGOS (40)
Try – M Soler (29′); A Moyano 2 (48′, 72′); M Sánchez (53′); G Fissore (63′); B Lescano (78′)
Con – J Hernández 1/1 (30′); JB Baronio 4/5 (49′, 53′, 63′, 78′)
Pen – J Hernández 0/1
YC – F Albrisi (16′)

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

Replacements: 16 Normam Aguayo, 17 Salvador Lues, 18 Nahuel Debiassi, 19 Baltazar Gurruchaga, 20 Bruno Sáez, 21 Andrés Kuzmanic, 22 Ignacio Arias, 23 Felipe Méndez

DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Leonel Oviedo, 3 Pedro Delgado, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Felipe Villagrán, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Agustín Moyano, 10 Julián Hernández, 11 Lautaro Cipriani, 12 Felipe Mallía, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Bautista Lescano, 15 Mateo Soler

Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Santiago Pullela, 18 Octavio Filippa, 19 Lorenzo Colidio, 20 Aitor Bildosola, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Juan Bautista Baronio, 23 Mateo Sánchez

Referee: Francisco González (UY)
Assistants: Mauro Rossi (AR); Sebastián Toledo (CL)
TMO: Ignacio Calle (CL)

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