Tarucas and Peñarol Play Out a Tight Contest in Tucumán

Peñarol got the job done in Tucumán on Monday. The Uruguayans were 21-16 away winners over Los Tarucas. The tight contest was only decided with the full-time whistle; Los Tarucas had several try scoring opportunities in the final minutes.

• Early tries to Felipe Etcheverry and Santiago Civetta had Peñarol in a commanding position. The lead came after Peñarol’s forwards had won the contact battle.
• Nicolás Roger kept Los Tarucas in the contest with two first-half penalties.
• Simón Benítez Cruz made it a one point game with his try three minutes into the second half. It was the best try of the match, featuring three off-loads.
• Replacement Bautista Vidal touched down 12 minutes from full-time for the final try.
• A penalty to Los Tarucas saw them back within a converted try. Los Tucumanos then had opportunities to score only to concede penalties with Peñarol able to jackal their way out of trouble while deep in their territory.
• Peñarol retain 2nd spot in the standings. The Uruguayans are on 23 points behind Los Pampas on 24. Selknam are 3rd with 18 points. Los Tarucas are 6th on 13 points.

TARUCAS (16)
Try – S Benitez Cruz (43′)
Con – N Roger 1/1 (44′)
Pen – N Roger 3/3 (4′, 25′, 73′)

PEÑAROL (21)
Try – F Etcheverry (14′); S Civetta (19′); B Vidal (68′)
Con – F Etcheverry 3/3 (14′, 20′, 69′)
YC – G Pujadas (55′)

1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Tomás Bartolini (capt.), 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Facundo García Hamilton, 5 Álvaro García Iandolino, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Santiago Aguilar, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Mariano García Ascarate, 13 Bautista Estofan, 14 Baltazar Garcia, 15 Stefano Ferro

Replacements: 16 Juan Manuel Vivas Estrella, 17 Julián Martín, 18 Agustín Iglesias, 19 Luciano Asevedo, 20 Thiago Sbrocco, 21 Estanislao Presto, 22 Juan Manuel Molivuevo, 23 Pedro Coll

PEÑAROL
1 Mateo Sanguinetti, 2 Guillermo Pujadas, 3 Juan Francisco Aguirre, 4 Felipe Aliaga, 5 Manuel Rosmarino, 6 Santiago Civetta, 7 Lucas Bianchi, 8 Manuel Diana (capt.), 9 Santiago Álvarez, 10 Felipe Etcheverry, 11 Justo Ferrario, 12 Bautista Farise, 13 Alfonso Perillo Albarracin, 14 Bautista Basso, 15 Baltazar Amaya

Replacements: 16 Sebastián Pérez, 17 Mateo Perillo, 18 Bautista Vidal, 19 Federico de Los Santos, 20 Bautista Viero, 21 Carlos Deus, 22 Tomás Di Biase, 23 Francisco Landauer

Referee: Juan López (AR)
Assistants: Pedro López Vildoza (AR);, Tomás Ninci (AR)
TMO: Marcelo Pajurek (AR)

APRIL 12  VS

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