{"id":617981,"date":"2026-04-19T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617981\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:53:17","slug":"selknam-boost-pathway-to-semi-finals-with-big-win-over-tarucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617981\/","title":{"rendered":"Selknam Boost Pathway to Semi Finals with big win over Tarucas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selknam gave their home supporters a fantastic afternoon. Their home match at Estadio St George\u2019s College was a bonus point victory with Selknam winning 37-13. It was a vastly different rugby match to that between the same teams in Tucum\u00e1n in the Super Rugby Americas (SRA) 2026 season opener<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selknam\u2019s win provides the Chilean side with a boost as they eye a pathway to the SRA Semi Finals. Indeed, Selknam claimed the full 5 competition points on offer and denied Los Tarucas any competition points. It was 5th place at home against 3rd.<\/p>\n

The win demonstrated determination as well as skills. It also came after a nightmare start. Los Tarucas scored minutes after the kick-off through Facundo Cardozo. The flanker scored following a maul in what turned out to be the only Tarucas\u2019 incursion into the opposition try zone of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Ignacio Cerrutti converted the try but 7-0 did not last very long; indeed, Augusto B\u00f6hme powered over for the first Selknam try. Center Mat\u00edas Garafulic added the conversion to level the scores at 7-7 before the match had reached the 10 minute mark.<\/p>\n

Mat\u00edas Garafulic was the next to score. His try was from a magnificent counter attack start by fly half, Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez. He ran from deep and put up an up-and-under. Crist\u00f3bal Game chased and leaped high to gather. A long and well timed pass to the left followed with Garafulic over in the right corner.<\/p>\n

Garafulic went from hero to zero quickly, however, as he was yellow carded for an intentional knock-on. Los Tarucas failed to capitalize as it was Selknam\u2019s match.<\/p>\n

The third try was created by Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez. He put in a kick through for scrum-half, Lucas Berti to chase and gather. Berti converted his own try to put Selknam in a solid position. It was the final score of the opening half with Selknam leading 19-7 at the interval.<\/p>\n

The second-half saw Mat\u00edas Garafulic and Ignacio Cerrutti exchanging penalties twice. With it, the difference between the teams remained tilted in favor of the Chileans.<\/p>\n

Selknam then powered to victory in the final quarter. The impressive young center \/ wing, Nicol\u00e1s Saab scored on 65 minutes while Nicol\u00e1s Garafulic proved to be a useful injection from the replacements. He scored a try one minute before the final whistle.<\/p>\n

With the win, Selknam move up to 22 competition points. Los Tarucas remain on 23 points while Los Capibaras, who face Pe\u00f1arol on Monday in Montevideo, have 21 competition points.<\/p>\n

\"\"Foto: Maximiliano Aceiton \/ Gaspafotos \/ Super Rugby Am\u00e9ricas<\/p>\n

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\"\"SCORING<\/p>\n

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SELKNAM (37)
TRY \u2013 A B\u00f6hme (6\u2032); M Garafulic (14\u2032); L Berti (33\u2032); N Saab (65\u2032); N Garafulic (79\u2032)
CON \u2013 M Garafulic 2 (7\u2032, 80\u2032); L Berti (34\u2032)
PEN \u2013 M Garafulic (45\u2032, 53\u2032)
YC \u2013 M Garafulic (27\u2032)<\/p>\n

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TARUCAS (13)
TRY \u2013 F Cardozo (3\u2032)
CON \u2013 I Cerrutti (4\u2032)
PEN \u2013 I Cerrutti (50\u2032, 67\u2032)
YC \u2013 R Guraib (34\u2032)<\/p>\n

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\"\"LINE-UPS<\/p>\n

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SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Augusto Bohme, 3 I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Agust\u00edn Toth, 6 Clemente Saavedra (capt.), 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez, 11 Nicol\u00e1s Saab, 12 Mat\u00edas Garafulic, 13 Domingo Saavedra, 14 Manuel Bustamante, 15 Crist\u00f3bal Game<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Benjam\u00edn Moreno, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Alan Pedrol, 19\u00a0Clemente Armstrong, 20 Mart\u00edn Sigren, 21 Marcelo Torrealba, 22 Nicol\u00e1s Garafulic, 23 Ernesto Tchimino<\/p>\n

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TARUCAS
1 Francisco Palazzi Barrientos, 2 Juan Manuel Vivas , 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Luciano Asevedo, 5 Ignacio Marquieguez, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agust\u00edn Sarelli, 8 Thiago Sbrocco, 9 Estanislao Pregot, 10 Ignacio Cerrutti, 11 Tom\u00e1s Vanni, 12 Bautista Estofan, 13 Mat\u00edas Orlando (capt.), 14 Mateo Pasquini, 15 Tomas Elizalde<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Raul Enrique Guraiib, 17 Ignacio Lazarte, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Joaqu\u00edn Aguilar, 20 Santiago Melit\u00f3n Heredia, 21 Mat\u00edas Sauze, 22 Stefano Ferro, 23 Nicol\u00e1s Mar\u00eda Macome<\/p>\n

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\"\"MATCH HIGHLIGHTS<\/p>\n

Video: To Follow<\/p>\n

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\"\"MATCH OFFICIALS<\/p>\n

\"\"VS\"\"
Referee: Dami\u00e1n Schneider (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Federico Longobardi (Argentina); Sebasti\u00e1n Toledo (Chile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selknam gave their home supporters a fantastic afternoon. Their home match at Estadio St George\u2019s College was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,219276,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-617981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-super-rugby-americas","13":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617981","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=617981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}