SCOTS SCORE EIGHT TRIES WITH NO REPLY IN DUBAI
Posted: 13/Apr/06
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Scotland Under 19 ran in eight tries to nil in a 48-0 defeat of Japan in Dubai today in their third game of the IRB U19 World Championship.

Scores from centres Jack Cuthbert (Bath) and Graham Hogg (Hawick) with a third from Stewart’s Melville FP lock Richard Vernon saw the Scots go in 19-0 at half-time after Dundee HSFP stand-off and Scotland U19 captain Cameron Ferguson added two conversions.

After the break, the Scots settled into their stride and began to take advantage of their scoring opportunities, something they have been looking to set right from previous games.

Watsonians scrumhalf Murray Bringhurst and Glasgow Hawks back-row Ross MacDonald widened the gap between the two sides in the second half which also saw two tries from Dundee HSFP prop Alan Dymock and another from Vernon who clinched his second of the day. Ferguson added another two conversions.

Scotland U19 head coach Peter Wright said: “We got off to a slow start but the boys began to take their chances.

“The team played to their potential and it is amazing how the mood in the camp has changed after the win,” he added.

Scotland U19: Ross Curle (Hillhead/Jordanhill); Colin Goudie (Stewart’s Melville FP), Jack Cuthbert (Bath), Graham Hogg (Hawick and East of Scotland Institute of Sport), Alex Grove (Rugby School); Cameron Ferguson (Dundee HSFP) CAPTAIN, Jamie Hunter (Hillhead/Jordanhill and West of Scotland Institute of Sport); Alan Dymock (Dundee HSFP and Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport), Frazer Wilford (Sheffield Hallam University and Rotherham Titans), Ross McCallum (Ardrossan Academicals and West of Scotland Institute of Sport), Richie Vernon (Stewart’s Melville FP and Tayside & Fife Institute of Sport), Steve Turnbull (Stirling County and Central Scotland Institute of Sport), Daniel Levison (Dundee HSFP), Willie Lipp (Ellon), Roddy Grant (Gala). Substitutes – Pat MacArthur (West of Scotland) for Wilford (48 minutes), Richard Mill (Stirling County and Central Scotland Institute of Sport) for Curle (48), Murray Bringhurst (Watsonians and East of Scotland Institute of Sport) for Hunter (48), Andrew Easson (Edinburgh Gunners, Stewart’s Melville FP and East of Scotland Institute of Sport) for Cuthbert (48), Nick Hart (Watsonians) for McCallum (57), Ross MacDonald (Glasgow Hawks) for Lipp (57), Callum Anderson (Peebles and East of Scotland Institute of Sport) for Grove (60). Not used – Dave Lambert (Loughborough University), Stuart McGee (Stirling County).
Tries, Vernon (2), Dymock (2), Cuthbert, Hogg, Bringhurst, MacDonald; conversions, Ferguson (4).

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Scotland will now meet Romania on Monday in a semi-final play-off for ninth-twelfth positions in the final standings. Romania lost to Wales today by 0-70.

Both of the championship semi-finals will be between the hemispheres – England v New Zealand, and France v Australia. England today won by 45-18 against South Africa, the defending champions.

Today’s results:

New Zealand 22, Australia 17
Scotland 48, Japan 0
Wales 70, Romania 0
France 19, Argentina 12
Ireland 16, Samoa 15
England 45, South Africa 18

This article was posted on 13-Apr-2006, 22:51 by Hugh Barrow.