Boland Beat Italy
On a lovely afternoon in Wellington Boland Under-19 beat the touring Italy Under-18 22-20 at Boland Stadium.
There are four Under-18 teams touring South Africa at present. England, France and Wales will join with SA Schools in a quadrangular tournament, The fourth team is Italy Under-18, coached by Massimo Brunello, who arrived in Cape Town on 2 August 2013 with 30 players for four matches though without playing against another international team.
Boland dominated the first half and ended it leading 8-0. In the second half the Italians seemed to have Boland's measure and two tries in the first 10 minutes by Lorenzo Masato and Matteo Dal Sie and a conversion and a penalty goal by Matteo Minozzi put them 15-8 ahead of the home side. But then two tries by the home pack brought victory. while Nicolò Broglia scored a late try for Italy.
Scorers:
For Italy Under-18:
Tries: Masato, Dal Sie, Broglia
Con: Minozzi
Pen: Minozzi
For Boland:
Tries: 3
Cons: 2
Pen: 1
Team:
Italy Under-18: Bruno; Slawitz (replaced by Sperandio), Lamaro, Rollo (replaced by Schiavo), Banzato (replaced by Cicuttin); Minozzi(replaced by Mantelli), Masato (replaced by Raffaele); Buratti (replaced by Broglia), Mantegazza (captain), Basha; Fragnito (replaced by Ciotoli), Ortis (replaced by Krumov); Dal Sie (replaced by Makelara), Carnio (replaced by Ferraro), Barducci (replaced by Pavesi)
Referee: Francois Pretorius (South Africa)
Assistant referees: Francois Groenewald (South Africa), Local
Italy Under-18 Fixtures
5 August: Italy Under-18 B]oland Under-19 in
9 August: Italy Under-18 Western Province Cravenweek XV in Cape Town
13 August: Italy Under-18 SWD in George
17 August: Italy Under-18 Boland Craven Week XV in Wellington
Italy Under-18 Touring Team: Simone Baitieri (Viadana), Filippo Banzato (Benetton Treviso), Roberto Paolo Barducci (Lions Amaranto), Dario Basha (Lions Amaranto), Nicolò Broglia (Firenze 1931), Pierre Bruno (Province Dell’Ovest), Alberto Buratti (Valsugana Padova), Antonio Caione (L’Aquila), Federico Cicuttin (Cammi Calvisano), Mihai Ciju (Cammi Calvisano), Davide Ciotoli (Pro Recco), Matteo Dal Sie (M-Three San Donà), Edoardo Ferraro (Benetton Treviso), Davide Fragnito (Benevento), Leonard Krumov (Viadana), Pietro Lamaro (Primavera), Enjiel Makelara (Benetton Treviso), Vittorio Alberto Mantegazza (UR Capitolina), Leonardo Mantelli (UR Prato-Sesto), Lorenzo Masato (Benetton Treviso), Matteo Minozzi (Valsugana Padova), Gabriele Nobili (UR Capitolina), Samuele Ortis (Veneziamestre), Federico Pavesi (Amatori Parma), Giovanni Pettinelli (Veneziamestre), Riccardo Raffaele (L’Aquila), Giovanni Rollo (Parma 1931), Armando Schiavo (UR Capitolina), Michele Slawitz (Colorno), Luca Sperandio (Benetton Treviso)