Pampas Win Roller Coaster Battle against Selknam in Santiago

Los Pampas won a roller coaster match against Selknam in Santiago del Chile. Played on Saturday afternoon, a frantic opening quarter saw the teams both coring two tries. The home side was the better team in the first half but the visitors clicked in the second half to win 31-26.

NOTES

Bruno Sáez scored the opening try following consecutive penalties deep in Pampas territory.
Puma Justo Piccardo charged over for the second try on 10 minutes. He provided an assist for Bruno Heit to score eight minutes later.
Joaquín Milesi scored in between the aforementioned Pampas tries. He did so after Alfonso Latorre was red carded for shoulder to head contact while attempting a tackle in an upright position.
Replacement Benjamín Videla finished off a counter-attack try for Selknam.
Forward power culminated in Javier Corvalán scoring the first second half try.
Martín Sigren responded with a try in the right corner for the Chileans.
The best try of the match followed with Bruno Heit breaking down the left and Eliseo Morales scoring. It proved to be the match-winner for Los Pampas.
The win was the fourth consecutive SRA victory for Los Pampas. The team is undefeated this season.
Man of the Match went to the losing captain, Martín Sigren.
Augusto Villanueva debuted for Selknam and Juan Penoucos debuted for Los Pampas.

SCORING

SELKNAM (26)
TRY – B Sáez (5′); J Milesi (15′); B Videla (27′); M Sigren (62′)
CON – M Garafulic 1/1 (6′); JC Reyes 2/3 (15′, 28′)

PAMPAS (31)
TRY – J Piccardo (10′); B Heit (18′); J Corvalán (50′); E Morales (64′)
CON – R Estanislao 4/4 (11′, 19′, 50′, 65′)
PEN – R Estanislao 1/1 (34′)
RC – A Latorre (14′)

LINEUPS

SELKNAM
1 Javier Carrasco, 2 Raimundo Martínez, 3 Iñaki Gurruchaga, 4 Santiago Pedrero, 5 Bruno Sáez, 6 Martín Sigren, 7 Alfonso Escobar, 8 Joaquin Milesi, 9 Marcelo Torrelaba, 10 Juan Cruz Reyes, 11 Federico Kennedy, 12 Nicolás Saab, 13 Matías Garafulic, 14 Clemente Armstrong, 15 Luca Strabucchi

Replacements: 16 Salvador Lues, 17 Norman Aguayo, 18 Nahuel DiBiassi, 19 Agustín Toth, 20 Ernesto Tchimino, 21 Benjamín Videla, 22 Diego Warnken, 23 Augusto Villanueva

PAMPAS
1 Javier Corvalán, 2 Ramiro Gurovich, 3 Tomás Rapetti, 4 Leo Mazzini, 5 Federico Lavanini, 6 Manuel Bernstein (capt.), 7 Nicolás D’Amorim, 8 Juan Cruz Pérez Rachel, 9 Ignacio Inchauspe, 10 Estanislao Renthel, 11 Alfonso Latorre, 12 Justo Piccardo, 13 Bruno Heit, 14 Santiago Peonas, 15 Francisco Quinn

Replacements: 16 Ignacio Bottazzini, 17 Francisco Lusarreta, 18 Gael Galván, 19 Juan Penoucos, 20 Juan Pedro Bernasconi, 21 Eliseo Morales, 22 Jeronimo Solveyra, 23 Juan Pablo Castro

MATCH HIGHLIGHTS