The USA”s High School All Americans will play Argentina’s U18s without hard-charging flanker Hanco Germishuys, who has been ruled out due to an ankle injury.

The HSAA team is coming off a 48-3 loss to Cordoba Academy, but that was a game treated as a scrimmage by Salty Thompson and his coaching staff.

Thompson used his entire 30-man roster.

“That experience was an eye opener for the debutants and they struggled to compete with the pace and accuracy of an accomplished Argentinian province u19 select side,” said Thompson.

Argentina’s U18s will be a very tough opponent as Los Pumitas have defeated the HSAA team fairly comfortably the last two years.

"The strategy [is] to play the best the Americas can offer,” said Thompson. “Providing our boys exposure to that level of peer competition is invaluable.”

Uruguay face Italy at 2pm at the Uru Cure Rugby Club followed by USA v Argentina at 4pm local time (3pm EDT, Noon PDT). The tournament of these four countries is getting some good support in Argentina, with posters, social media, and other coverage.