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Cr\u00e9dito Foto: Daniel Gollan y Marcelo Valdez \/ Gaspafotos \/ Super Rugby Am\u00e9ricas<\/p>\nLos Pampas conquered Los Tarucas in Tucum\u00e1n on Friday evening. Hours after Pe\u00f1arol were too good for Os Cobras, Los Pampas humbled Los Tarucas with former Puma Santiago Cordero scoring a first-half double. A late flurry not only meant Los Pampas were definitive winners but that they won by an impressive 43-22 scoreline.<\/p>\n
There were pas Rugby World Cup Pumas on both teams. In addition to Santiago Cordero, who played in the RWC 2015 Semi Final, Mat\u00edas Orlando played for Los Tarucas. 2025 rookie Puma Santiago Pernas also played while others, as displayed below, were in attendance.<\/p>\n
Cr\u00e9dito Foto: Daniel Gollan y Marcelo Valdez \/ Gaspafotos \/ Super Rugby Am\u00e9ricas<\/p>\n
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Los Pampas held a 26-10 lead at half-time. It came with the try-scoring bonus point already secured. Such was the rugby played in the opening half that there was reason to say it was the best 40 minutes of the SRA season so far.<\/p>\n
The game started with a bang. Winger Mateo Pasquini scored in just the 3rd minute for Los Tarucas. Fly half Ignacio Cerruti landed the conversion only for his opposite, Bautista Faris\u00e9 to score a converted try on 7 minutes.<\/p>\n
The action continued to flow with Santiago Cordero scoring back-to-back tries and Cerutti landing a penalty for the home side. Cordero had scrum-half and captain, Lucas Marguery to thank for his first try. Then on 30 minutes, former Los Pumas 7\u2019s player, Agust\u00edn Fraga bust tackles to score the bonus point try for Los Pampas.<\/p>\n
The second-half was also very lively. It started with Marguery receiving his marching orders. A yellow card meant Los Pampas adjusted by moving Santiago Cordero to scrum-half. Los Tarucas had the better of play against 14-men, however, and Facundo Cardozo came away with a try.<\/p>\n
A Faris\u00e9 penalty followed before the match came back to life. With the clock entering the final ten minutes, Pasquini crossed for his second try of the evening. Replacement Maximo Ledesma converted to make it a 29-22 ball game.<\/p>\n
There was time left for two more tries but neither of them were Tucum\u00e1n tries. Los Pampas secured victory and denied their hosts a losing bonus point and also a try-scoring bonus point. Faris\u00e9 finished with a second try and a personal haul of 23 points for the night. His final points came by converting Santiago Pernas\u2019 try with time up.<\/p>\n
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Cr\u00e9dito Foto: Daniel Gollan y Marcelo Valdez \/ Gaspafotos \/ Super Rugby Am\u00e9ricas<\/p>\n
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SCORING<\/p>\n
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TARUCAS (22)
TRY \u2013 M Pasquini 2 (3\u2032, 73\u2032); F Cardozo (54\u2032)
CON \u2013 I Cerruti (3\u2032); M Ledesma (74\u2032)
PEN \u2013 I Cerruti (55\u2032)<\/p>\n
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PAMPAS (43)
TRY \u2013 B Faris\u00e9 2 (7\u2032, 76\u2032); S Cordero 2 (10\u2032, 20\u2032); A Fraga (30\u2032); S Pernas (80\u2032)
CON \u2013 B Faris\u00e9 5 (7\u2032, 21\u2032, 30\u2032, 77\u2032, 80\u2032)
PEN \u2013 B Faris\u00e9 (63\u2032)
YC \u2013 L Marguery (50\u2032)<\/p>\n
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LINE-UPS<\/p>\n
TARUCAS
1 Benjam\u00edn Garrido, 2 Juan Vivas, 3 Rodrigo Navarro, 4 Ignacio Marquieguez, 5 Luciano Asevedo, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agust\u00edn Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Ignacio Cerruti, 11 Tom\u00e1s Elizalde, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Mat\u00edas Orlando (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Nicol\u00e1s Macome<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 Raul Guraib, 17 Mariano Muntaner, 18 Francisco Moreno, 19 Joaqu\u00edn Aguilar, 20 Tom\u00e1s Dande, 21 Mat\u00edas Sauze, 22 Maximo Ledesma, 23 Pedro Coll<\/p>\n
PAMPAS
1 Mat\u00edas Medrano, 2 Ignacio Bottazzini, 3 Marcos Camerlinckx, 4 Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez Criado, 5 Francisco Sluga, 6 Juan Penoucos, 7 Faustino Santarelli, 8 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 9 Lucas Marguery (capt.), 10 Bautista Faris\u00e9, 11 Santiago Cordero, 12 Juan Cruz Corso, 13 Agust\u00edn Fraga, 14 Santiago Pernas, 15 Estanislao Renthel<\/p>\n
Replacements: 16 Francisco Lusaerreta, 17 Nahuel Zunini, 18 Valent\u00edn Vicente Vidal, 19 Marcelo Toledo, 20 Lucas Moresco, 21 Alejo Lavay\u00e9n, 22 Felipe Ledesma, 23 Jer\u00f3nimo Ulloa<\/p>\n
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MATCH HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n
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WEEK FOUR \u2013 MATCH OFFICIALS<\/p>\n
VS
Referee: Pablo Deluca (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Nicol\u00e1s Cotic (Argentina); Agust\u00edn Altabe (Argentina)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Pampas conquered Los Tarucas in Tucum\u00e1n on Friday evening. Hours after Pe\u00f1arol were too good for Os…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,219276,446],"class_list":["post-539686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-super-rugby-americas","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}