Rugby Club San Marino also wins in Bologna and is now fighting for second place
SAN MARINO – On Sunday 24 April the Rugby Club San Marino obtained its third consecutive victory in the Emilia Romagna group of the Italian UISP championship.
The San Marino players got the better of the Cinghiali del Setta (Bologna) with a 3-48 round in which the guests scored 8 tries.
The match report sees the hosts score the first points after a few minutes, thanks to a free kick kicked between the posts. San Marino reacts immediately and on 22 ‘finds the first try with the player Pietro Cocco. Luca Giardi transforms and the score goes to 3 to 7. The rest of the first sees the two teams face off with equilibrium but without being able to score other points.
The recovery instead sees San Marino emerge with arrogance, thanks also to a bench lengthened by the grafts of the players of the Salvatori Social Rugby club of Cesena who, in full Uisp spirit, joined the San Marino players for the away match.
At 42 ‘comes the second goal of San Marino scored by Adriano Barzanti. Giardi has nothing to do with the transformation and the score remains at 3-12. Four minutes later comes the third San Marino goal scored by Riccardo Rondoni. Also this time the San Marino player fails to transform football so the score rises to 3-17.
The wild boars to look for and in the following minutes they become dangerous at least a couple of times but the Titans defend their goal in an excellent way. Indeed, the wave of the hosts stopped, the guests still poured into the opposing half of the field where rampant in the last 20 minutes of the game.
At 60 ‘Luca Giardi marks the fourth goal of San Marino, that of the bonus point, but does not transform. At 65 ‘and 70’ Riccardo Rondoni scores a brace, with Giardi who transforms only the second. Just a minute later comes the sixth goal of the RCSM with the prop Mattia Orioli transformed by Luca Giardi who brings the score to 3-41. The Titans are now a river in flood. In the last 5 minutes of the game comes the second goal of Luca Giardi, transformed by the same, and the eighth and last goal of the prop Mattia Orioli (second of the day) canceled then validated.
It is the last gasp of the day: the game is over on 3-48 in favor of the Titans.
San Marino thus obtained another beautiful victory, the third in a row, on the not easy field of Bologna made even more difficult by the weather conditions that weighed down the pitch.
The technician Giovanni “Baffo” Borsani has therefore rewarded “Man in the field” Luca Giardi author of two goals and various transformations for a total of 18 points.
Time to enjoy the victory and recover energy and the San Marino Rugby Club is back on the pitch for the last day on May 8 at the home of the Sweaty Bulls in Padua: if that match is also won, the second final place in the standings will be ensured.
The San Marino players took the field:
Alessandro Francioni, Simone Mauro, Thomas Borroni, Luca Di Bisceglie, Pietro Cocco (Salvatori), Mattia Tomassini (Cap), Federico Bartolini, Alex Marchetti, Emanuele Masi, Luca Giardi, Andrea Mularoni, Giacomo Mini, Jonathan Muraccini, Adriano Barzanti (Salvatori ), Michele Cecchetti.
Available: Luca Molari (Salvatori), Riccardo Rondoni (Salvatori), Mattia Orioli (Salvatori), Lorenzo Cappelletti, Andrea Costa, Alessandro Cesarini, Giacomo Rossetto, Matteo Cucchi.