GRR: USA U18s
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The USA U18 Girls are back from Wales after a wildly successful tour.
The young Americans played a day of shortened internationals against Scotland, Netherlands, and Wales, winning all three.
A few days later they suited up against Wales in a full-length age-grade international, losing 17-14.
The USA U28s are set to face a Buenos Aires Academy side Wednesday in Argentina.
The tourists are coming off short-game losses to Chile U18s and Uruguay U18s in a round-robin event last week.
This is the lineup:
The USA U18s lost both of their round-robin games today in Uruguay.
The U18s faced Chile in their opening shortened game today, losing 34-7 to a very speedy Condors side.
They USA U18s then fielded a different 15 against Uruguay and battled hard but lost 20-10, hurt by a couple of yellow cards. Chile played much faster rugby, while Uruguay was physically imposing.
The USA U18s Boys will be playing a round-robin with Chile and Uruguay Saturday in Montevideo.
The games will be 25-minute halves and all three teams will play twice at Estadio Charrúa in Uruguay's capital.
The USA U18 team will play Chile at 2:30ET on Saturday. This is the lineup for that game: