Emerging Springboks 61 Romania 7
In the final match of the day The Emerging Spingboks, outplayed an out of sorts Romania 61-7.
The Emerging Springboks were simply too good for their hosts, Romania, on the opening day of the tournament.
After opening the scoring with a penalty in the second minute, the South Africans pinned the "Oaks" on their try-line for about 10 minutes, before the proverbial dam-wall broke and the Boks scored four unanswered tries.
Romanian fly-half Ionut Tofan admitted the South Africans were simply too strong.
"They are just too hard to tackle or to stop," Tofan said.
"They play like a typical South African team."
The Boks' best players were wing Odwa Ndungane, fly-half Peter Grant, scrum-half Heini Adams and captain Schalk Brits at hooker.
The Bok hooker managed to score two of his team's tries as he led from the front, while loose forward Kabamba Floors also scored a brace as the visitors outplayed the Romanians to take a 33-0 lead at the half-time break.
The second half began a little better for Romania, who managed to keep the Boks scoreless for 20 minutes - before the visitors scored tries in 60th and 70th minutes to take the score out to made it 47-0.
The Romanians, to their credit, did not give up and hooker Marius Tincu came close to scoring. From a resulting penalty Vlaicu's shot at goal drifted wide.
However, they were soon rewarded when second row forward Bogdan Balan busted through before off-loading to Cristi Petre for their sole try.
In the final two minutes the South Africans scored another two tries for a very impressive victory and a good start to the tournament - leaving them as favourites for the overall ***le.
Romania must now beat Italy 'A' and Namibia to reach the play-offs.
The game was not without casualties, with Floors (ankle) and Adams (thigh) sustaining minor injuries. They are likely to be rested for the second encounter, against Georgia on Sunday.
Team Manager Peter Maimane described as a "perfect start" to the tournament.
"The team spirit is fantastic and the players all played their part to ensure the team delivered a very good performance against Romania," Maimane said.
Scorers:
For Romania:
Try: Petre
Con: Vlaicu
For South Africa:
Tries: Brits 2, Floors 2, Chavhanga, Skeate, Vermaak, Joubert
Cons: Grant 6
Pens: Grant 3
Teams:
Emerging Springboks: 15 Bevin Fortuin, 14 Odwa Ndungane, 13 Jaco Pretorius, 12 Bradley Barritt, 11 Tonderai Chavhanga, 10 Peter Grant, 9 Heini Adams, 8 Jonathan Mokuena, 7 Solly Tyibilika, 6 Kabamba Floors, 5 Ross Skeate, 4 Wilhelm Steenkamp, 3 Eddie Andrews, 2 Schalk Brits (captain), 1 Heine van der Merwe.
Replacements: 16 Ashton Constant, 17 Mxoli Songoni, 18 Bandise Maku, 19 Nikolai Blignaut, 20 Ernst Joubert, 21 Jano Vermaak, 22 Howard Noble, 23 Marius Delport, 24 Louis Ludik, 25 Meyer Bosman, 26 Hilton Lobberts.
Romania: 15 Iulian Dumitras, 14 Catalin Fercu, 13 Gabriel Brezoianu, 12 Catalin Dascalu, 11 Ioan Teodorescu, 10 Ionut Tofan, 9 Valentin Calafeteanu, 8 Florin Corodeanu, 7 Cosmin Ratiu, 6 Alex Tudori, 5 Cristian Petre, 4 Valentin Ursache, 3 Paulica Ion, 2 Marius Tincu (captain), 1 Petrisor Toderasc.
Replacements: 16 Razvan Mavrodin, 17 Cezar Popescu, 18 Bogdan Balan, 19 Augustin Petrichei, 20 Stelian Burcea, 21 Lucian Sirbu, 22 Ionut Dimofte, 23 Florin Vlaicu, 24 Csaba Gal, 25 Dan Vlad, 26 Valentin Poparlan.
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