Chile overpower Mexico in second round of ARCh U20

Chile overpowered Mexico to open the second round of the Americas Rugby Challenge Under-20, defeated the Rugby Americas North side 66 – 18.Chile scored two tries within eight minutes through Guillermo Vatter, taking the score to 12 – 0.Mexico’s forwards held strong in the following minutes, causing a penalty where Guillermo Villalpando kicked three points to put Mexico on the board at the 18^thminute mark, 12 – 3.Jorge Delgado at 24 minutes would be responsible for expanding the Chilean lead by scoring a try, which was converted by Guillermo Vatter, bringing the lead to 19 – 3. In the 30th minute, however, Mexico’s Fernando Anduaga scored his team’s first try of the match and after a Villalpando conversion the score was 19 – 10.At the 32^ndminute, Matias Garafulic added another try for Chile, which was converted by Vatter to push the lead to 26 – 10, however just before half time Villalpando of Mexico kicked another three points to bring the score to 26 – 13 leading into the break.Chile opened the second half with a dominant physical performance, leading to tries from Joaquin Milesi at the 41^stminute mark, Lukas Carvallo at the 47^thminute mark and Garafulic at the 51^stminute. This would bring the score to 45 – 13.At the 60-minute mark, Garafulic and Vatter added more points for Chile with a try and conversion and Mexico’s Diego Sánches would respond with the a try, however Chile proved too strong as they touched down for two final tries through Cristobal Escobar and Balcázar Jana, both converted by Vatter. Final score was 66 – 18 in favour of the South Americans.Incidencias:Chile (66): XV Titular: Aquilino Alfonso, Martín Fuentes, Esteban Barra, Manuel Ripamonti, Juan Pablo Duhalde, Jorge Delgado, Ernesto Tchimino, Joaquin Milesi, Raimundo Poblete, Guillermo Vatter, Cristobal Escobar, Baltazar Jana, Clemente Armstrong, Vicente Urbina y Luca Strabucci.Cambios:PT: 17’ Matias Garafulic por Vicente UrbinaInicio ST: Jorge Araya por Esteban BarraLukas Carvallo por Raimundo Poblete16’ Agustin Fernández por Joaquin Milesi18’ Joaquín Vidal por Ernesto Tchimino20’ Rufino Costa por Martín Fuentes y Lucas Sandoval por Lucas Strabucci25’ Santiago Pedrero por Jorge DelgadoMexico (18): XV Titular: Fernando González, Maximiliano Arriaga, Mario Carranza, Xavier Sotres, Marco González, Emilio Contreras, Emiliano Casillas, Fernando Gutiérrez, Santiago González, Guillermo Villalpando, Enrique Carmona, Sebastian Garza, Omar García, Diego Sánchez y Fernando Anduaga.Cambios: ST8’ Leonardo Ribeiro por Mario Carranza16’ Isaac Romero por Emilio Contreras25’ Daniel Martinez por Guillermo Villalpando36’ Alonso Escalera por Fernando Anduaga y José Larraga por Diego Sánchez.Estadio: Héroes del CurupaytyÁrbitro: Aldo Mora Asistentes: Marcos Nunes y Mario Echeverria