Temple University's Gareth Jones and his USA Under-20 national team fell to Samoa today 20 to 6 at the IRB Junior World Championship. The team started strong, putting 6 points in the scoreboard within the first 21 minutes of the game. Then Samoa answered with 7 points before the half. USA was unable to come back, and allowed Samoa to score 13 more points before the game's end.
“Samoa is an expansive team. They are gifted, powerful runners, and although we are tackling better and have tightened up our defense a bit, we are still turning over the ball and teams at this level will capitalize on that,” said USA Under-20 Head Coach Salty Thompson. “It’s a bit frustrating to see us still making those mistakes. We played strong defense during the first half and Samoa just caught us on our broken play defense in the second (half). When we struggled to reshape our defense, that’s when Samoa capitalized and found the space to operate in."
Their final pool match is June 14 against Scotland.
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