{"id":720104,"date":"2026-06-07T01:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720104\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T01:29:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T01:29:22","slug":"selknam-end-sra-2026-with-strong-showing-against-cobras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/720104\/","title":{"rendered":"Selknam End SRA 2026 With Strong Showing Against Cobras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selknam and ended their Super Rugby Americas (SRA) season with a strong showing at home on Saturday. The Chilean side was too strong for the Brazilian professional rugby team. The 45-14 was what the team needed to advance to the Semi Finals; that was so before Friday\u2019s results with Los Tarucas beating Los Capibaras to claim the fourth, and final, spot in the play-offs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Selknam had the result secured inside the opening half. A strong start from the Chileans had them leading 28-0 at half-time. Os Cobras had no answers for the Chileans who played all the rugby on attack and were able to shut down the Brazilian side throughout the first-half.<\/p>\n

Lucas Berti was the star of the first-half. He scored a double and completed a hat-trick early in the second-half before being replaced by Marcelo Torrealba. Berti also filled-in for Mat\u00edas Garaculic by taking over the goal-kicking duties. He had a sound match with accurate goal-kicking and a personal haul of 23 points.<\/p>\n

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

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Before Berti scored his opening try, Os Cobras were already in trouble. Front-rower Henrique Ribeiro was yellow carded and Selknam were awarded a penalty try. Berti then scored tries on 8 and 12 minutes for Selknam.<\/p>\n

Flanker Rodrigo Mart\u00ednez also impressed for the Chilean side. He scored two tries with the first giving Selknam a bonus point inside the opening quarter. The performance had been so explosive that Selknam were 28-0 up at the 20 minute mark.<\/p>\n

Os Cobras scored twice in the second-half while Selknam added three more tries. Os Cobras\u2019 tries went to Jo\u00e3o do Amaral and South African Rosko Specman. The performance of Specman throughout the campaign is an indication of the need for more foreign players if Os Cobras are to up their game and be competitive.<\/p>\n

Questions will also need to be addressed about the coaching staff. The decision to fire Uruguayan Emiliano Caffera and revert to Josh Reeves was not successful. In their third season with Reeves in charge, Os Cobras \u00a0repeated 2023 and 2024 under Reeves by finishing last. The team registered one win in 2026.<\/p>\n

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

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SELKNAM (48)
TRY \u2013 Penalty try (6\u2032); L Berti 3 (8\u2032, 12\u2032, 41\u2032); R Mart\u00ednez 2 (19\u2032, 75\u2032); M Torrealba (48\u2032)
CON \u2013 No Kick (6\u2032); L Berti 4 (9\u2032, 13\u2032, 20\u2032, 42\u2032); M Escobar (49\u2032)<\/p>\n

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COBRAS (14)
TRY \u2013 J do Amaral (51\u2032); R Specman (69\u2032)
CON \u2013 J Leszczynski 2 (52\u2032, 70\u2032)
YC \u2013 H Ribeiro (6\u2032)<\/p>\n

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

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SELKNAM
1 Emilio Shea, 2 Salvador Lues, 3 I\u00f1aki Gurruchaga, 4 Bruno S\u00e1ez, 5 Agust\u00edn Toth, 6 Ernesto Tchimino, 7 Raimundo Mart\u00ednez, 8 Santiago Montagner, 9 Lucas Berti, 10 Rodrigo Fern\u00e1ndez, 11 Federico Kennedy, 12 Nicol\u00e1s Saab, 13 Rodrigo Araya, 14 Clemente Armstrong, 15 Mart\u00edn Escobar<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Jorge Andr\u00e9s Delgado Romero, 17 Javier Carrasco, 18 Norman Aguayo, 19 Santiago Pedrero, 20 Santiago Valenzuela, 21 Marcelo Torrealba, 22 Felipe M\u00e9ndez, 23 Joaqu\u00edn Milesi<\/p>\n

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COBRAS
1 Brendon Alves, 2 Austin Creighton, 3 Leonel Moreno, 4 Cleber Dias, 5 Gabriel Oliveira, 6 Renato Santos, 7 Matheus Claudio, 8 Andr\u00e9 Arruda, 9 Gustavo Gobeti Bilecki, 10 Julian Leszczynski, 11 Sergio Luna, 12 Jo\u00e3o do Amaral, 13 Lorenzo Massari Temer (capt.), 14 Widson Nascimento, 15 Rosko Specman<\/p>\n

Replacements: 16 Endy Willian Pinheiro, 17 Henrique Ribeiro, 18 Lautaro Facundo Fanlo, 19 H\u00e9lder L\u00facio Souza, 20 Pedro Henrique Soares Aparecido, 21 Maiki Santos, 22 Zinedine Geraldo Booysen, 23 Jo\u00e3o Gabriel Fonseca Ribeiro<\/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: Federico Solari (Argentina)
Assistant Referees: Juan Manuel Mart\u00ednez (Argentina); Sebasti\u00e1n Toledo (Chile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selknam and ended their Super Rugby Americas (SRA) season with a strong showing at home on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,219276,446],"class_list":["post-720104","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\/720104","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=720104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}