Newcomers Tarucas Upset Champions Dogos on the Road

History was made in Córdoba, Argentina on Monday. Los Tarucas came out on top as 22-20 winners of the first ever Córdoba vs Tucumán professional rugby match. The match was a dream contest for scrum lovers; both teams won penalties while defending scrums meters out from their own try zone.

MATCH NOTES

The narrow win is third time lucky after Los Tarucas lost 15-14 against Los Pampas and 30-27 against Yacare earlier on this season.
Nicolás Roger and Juan Bautista Baronio exchanged two penalties each in the opening quarter for a 6-6 scoreline. Roger went on to kick 6/6 for 100% accuracy.
Roger added his third to make it 9-6 before his captain, Tomás Bartolini was yellow carded.
Lautaro Simes scored the opening try which Baronio converted before Roger landed another penalty for a 13-12 half-time scoreline favoring the home side.
Bartolini returned and made an impact. His 46th minute score was Los Tarucas’ only try of the match.
Los Tarucas scored for the final time following the yellow carding of Mateo Sánchez. He collided with Martiniano Arrieta who was taking a high ball just outside the try zone.
Despite being a man down, Los Dogos scored with hooker Leonel Oviedo touching down from a maul. Baronio converted in what was the final scoring act of the match.
The win sees Los Tarucas overtaking Yacare to now share 4th position alongside Los Dogos on 12 points.
Los Dogos secured a losing bonus point. They are ahead of Los Tarucas on points differential.
Felipe Contepomi was among the spectators at Córdoba Athletic.

SCORING

DOGOS (20)
Try – L Simes (34′); L Oviedo (56′)
Con – JB Baronio 2/2 (35′, 57′)
Pen – JB Baronio 2/2 (8′, 14′)
YC – M Sánchez (52′)

TARUCAS (22)
Try – T Bartolini (46′)
Con – N Roger 1/1 (47′)
Pen – N Roger 5/5 (4′, 11′, 21′, 40′, 53′)
YC – T Bartolini (24′)

LINEUPS

DOGOS
1 Boris Wenger, 2 Leonel Oviedo, 3 Pedro Delgado, 4 Lautaro Simes, 5 Federico Albrisi, 6 Aitor Bildosola, 7 Valentín Cabral (capt.), 8 Genaro Fissore, 9 Agustín Moyano, 10 Juan Bautista Baronio, 11 Franco Rossetto, 12 Faustino Sánchez Valarolo, 13 Agustín Segura, 14 Mateo Soler, 15 Mateo Sánchez

Replacements: 16 Conrado Iglesias, 17 Nicolás Revol, 18 Octavio Filippa, 19 Lorenzo Colidio, 20 Ignacio Gandini, 21 Juan Lovell, 22 Julián Hernández, 23 Leonardo Gea Salim

1 Benjamín Garrido, 2 Tomás Bartolini (capt.), 3 Francisco Moreno, 4 Mariano Perondi, 5 Álvaro García, 6 Facundo Cardozo, 7 Agustín Sarelli, 8 Santiago Aguilar, 9 Simón Benítez Cruz, 10 Nicolás Roger, 11 Tomás Vanni, 12 Tomás Medina, 13 Bautista Estofán, 14 Martiniano Arrieta, 15 Juan Manuel Molinuevo

Replacements: 16 Juan Manuel Vivas Estrella, 17 Julián Martín, 18 Rodrigo Navarro, 19 Luciano Asevedo, 20 Miguel Mukdise, 21 Estanislao Pregot, 22 Thiago Sbrocco, 23 Stefano Ferro

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS