{"id":6068,"date":"2014-05-11T10:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/junior-boks-clinch-series-3-0-against-los-pumitas\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:59:47","slug":"junior-boks-clinch-series-3-0-against-los-pumitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=6068","title":{"rendered":"Junior Boks clinch series 3-0 against Los Pumitas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South Africa Under-20 completed a 3-0 series win over Argentina after clinching a 41-36 victory in their final encounter on Saturday afternoon at City Park.<\/p>\n

The Junior Springboks led 24-5 at halftime. The three matches were part of the two sides\u2019 preparations for the 2014 Junior World Championship, to be staged during June in Auckland, New Zealand.<\/p>\n

The South Africans registered victories of 78-31 and 60-14 in the previous two encounters.<\/p>\n

Cool conditions and a stiff breeze greeted the two teams at City Park today, and the home team quickly got into their stride in the first half. After leading 24-5 at the break, the home side allowed the visitors back into the game when they scored several good tries.<\/p>\n

South Africa scored four tries in the first half while Argentina responded with a good effort. Prop Pierre Schoeman was first over the try line and he was followed by centre Andre Esterhuizen, scrumhalf JP Smith and outside centre Dan Kriel.<\/p>\n

Jean-Luc du Plessis succeeded with two conversions to make the halftime score 24-5 after the visitors\u2019 Boffelli Emiliano (centre) managed to break through the home defence.<\/p>\n

It was the visitors who scored first in the second half through flanker Lezana Tomas to reduce the deficit to 24-10. This try seemed to kick the Los Pumitas into gear, and left wing Echardt Rodrigo then sliced through the SA U20 defence to score (24-17).<\/p>\n

Rodrigo, who was now in fine form, scored his second try barely two minutes later to level the scores at 24-24.<\/p>\n

However, the Junior Boks hit back through wing Duhan van der Merwe as he finished a fine movement to score in the corner, allowing his team to reclaim the lead at 29-24.<\/p>\n

Two more tries by Jean-Luc du Plessis (flyhalf) and Warrick Gelant (full back), followed by a second try by Argentine livewire flanker Tomas, took the score to 41-29.<\/p>\n

However, it was prop Gigena Facundo who was the last player to score as Argentina signaled their intentions of never giving up, to bring the final score to 41-36 in favour of the Junior Boks.<\/p>\n

Issued by SARU Corporate Affairs<\/p>\n

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