Scotland start their Americas tour by inflicting a heavy 73-12 defeat on Canada; Scotland rested a bunch of key gamers and needed to come again from an early deficit however did so in type, scoring 11 tries within the course of
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Arron Reed races away to attain for Scotland
Scotland overwhelmed Canada, successful 73-12 at the beginning of their Americas tour.
The Scots, resting a bunch of their key gamers, fell behind initially however quickly took cost and debutants Arron Reed and Gus Warr, two of 5 uncapped gamers within the Scottish line-up, scored two tries apiece.
Canada’s Lucas Rumball scored an early attempt however any prospect of an upset was snuffed out from the second Josh Bayliss went over for the primary of Scotland’s 11 tries at TD Place Stadium, Ross Thompson including 5 conversions and Ben Healy 4.
Jamie Dobie seems to dump out of a deal with
Dylan Richardson bagged a first-half double on his first worldwide look since November 2021 as Scotland went in 24-5 forward at half-time.
Wing Reed struck in both half and scrum-half Warr touched down twice after the interval, whereas Harry Paterson, Jamie Dobie, Stafford McDowall and Kyle Steyn added gloss to the scoreline as Scotland in the end ran out comfy winners.
Nevertheless, they’d initially wanted a wake-up name in Ottawa as Canada got here storming out of the traps, capitalising on a number of errors from their opponents.
The hosts had been camped contained in the Scotland 22 within the opening exchanges and had been duly rewarded after eight minutes when captain Rumball burst over following a driving maul.
Spurred into motion, Scotland hit again 4 minutes later with their first actual assault as Paterson punctured the line of defense and offloaded to Currie on the left wing, his go again inside permitting Bayliss to go over unopposed.
Richardson had his first attempt after 1 / 4 of an hour, having collected an offload from Thompson, who transformed each of Scotland’s opening scores to place them 14-5 forward.
Thompson failed to separate the posts when Richardson dotted down from a surging maul and was once more wayward together with his kick when Reed marked his worldwide bow with a attempt earlier than half-time, Paterson the architect of the transfer with an offload out the again of his hand which freed the debutant to attain.
Canada’s Peter Nelson is tackled by scrum-half Gus Warr
Warr strengthened Scotland’s lead after the break, first dancing by means of the road and, whereas Canada briefly held out, the scrum-half collected the ball once more and dived over the ruck for a debut attempt.
Kyle Baillie’s transformed attempt gave Canada respite from the onslaught, however the spectacular Paterson and Warr mixed for the latter to shrug off a few challenges and contact down.
Scotland appeared a menace each time they pushed ahead and Reed grabbed his second of the match after barrelling down the left wing and barging previous a few defenders earlier than going over.
Scotland breached the 50-point barrier simply after the hour mark when Paterson deservedly acquired on the scoreboard following some wonderful interaction, whereas Dobie touched down beneath the posts after being teed up by Reed.
McDowall additionally went over beneath the posts following some deft footwork to evade a number of challenges, whereas Steyn gratefully accepted Healy’s offload to spherical off the scoring.
