Little Baby Bokkies draw

The South African Under-20 Invitational XV, mostly of Under-19 players, drew 23-23 with the Argentinian Under-20 team at the Markötter Stadium in Stellenbosch late on Tuesday afternoon.

Both teams were much changed from the teams which met on Saturday when the South African Under-20 team won 51-19.

The South African team was completely changed while the Pumitas changed 11 in their starting team as both countries prepared for the 2012 Junior World Championships to take place in the Western Cape in June.

The South Africans, who played at speed, went into the break leading 15-10 and at one stage led 23-13 with seven minutes to go, but two tries earned the visitors a draw, second by Germán Klubus coming just before the final whistle.

SA Under-20 coach Dawie Theron said afterwards he was happy with the result: "We had twelve new players who joined the squad only this week, and so a draw was a good result against a more experienced team.

"We gave the ball away too easily at times and I would have liked us to keep our shape a bit better, but a draw is good because they had to work really hard to keep us from winning the match," added Theron.

The Pumitas coach, Bernardo Urdaneta, was also a satisfied man: "We improved from last week, especially from a disciplinary point of view. We showed that we can play with the ball in hand but now we must work on our kicking game.

"We will make many changes for the last game and the aim is to pick our best selection for Saturday when we play at the Danie Craven Stadium."

The scorers:

For SA Under-20 Invitational XV:
Tries: Nel, Adendorf, Coetzee
Con: Leyds
Pens: Leyds 2

For Argentina Under-20:
Tries: Ezcurra, Garcia Botta, Klubus
Con: Poet
Pens: Poet, Paz

The teams:

SA U20 Invitational XV: 15 Dillyn Leyds, 14 Quinton Norris, 13 Johnny Kotze, 12 Kobus van Wyk, 11 Ruwellyn Isbell, 10 Harold Vorster, 9 Hlanhla Hlungwane, 8 Cobus Nel, 7 Leneve Dames, 6 Shaun Adendorf, 5 Marvin Orrie, 4 Jacques du Plessis, 3 Neethling Fouché, 2 Stephan Coetzee, 1 Marzuq Maarman.
Replacements: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Andrew Beerwinkel, 18 Henkus van Wyk, 19 Lungelo Chonco, 20 Rayn Smid, 21 Wian van der Walt, 22 Unconfirmed, 23 Unconfirmed.

Argentina Under-20: 15 Gonzalo Ruiz, 14 Santiago Cordero, 13 Joaquín Paz, 12 Juan Ignacio Brex, 11 Franco Cuaranta, 10 Sebastián Poet (captain), 9 Felipe Ezcurra, 8 Federico Aguiar, 7 Leandro Ramela, 6 Pablo Matera, 5 Rodrigo Parad Heit, 4 Ladislao Uriburu, 3 Mariano Sánchez, 2 Germán Lefort, 1 Matías Sambrán.
Replacements: 16 Santiago García Botta, 17 Santiago Iglesias, 18 Tomás Bruno, 19 Gaspar Oberti, 20 Lautaro Casado, 21 Rodolfo Ambrosio, 22 Juan Cappiello, 23 Germán Klubus.

Referee: Matt Kemp (South Africa)