Saturday 28 August 1999

Romania 19 Scotland 60

Scotland recovered from a sluggish start to run in seven tries in an emphatic 60-19 win win over Romania at Hampden Park on Saturday.

Winger Kenny Logan bagged two tries, five conversions and a penalty to complete a personal points tally of 26 points and centre Alan Tait grabbed his 16th international try to set the Five Nations champions on their way.

Tait's opening try was the highlight of a first half Scotland struggled to impose themselves on the East Europeans.

In the second half, centre James McLaren was able to celebrate his debut with a try when he barged in from close range before Scotland grabbed two tries in 60 seconds from Martin Leslie and Logan.

Romanian scrum-half Petre Mitu scored Romaia's only try which he converted himself and also struck four penalties.

The Teams:

Romania:  1 Dragos Niculae, 2 Petre Balan, 3 Constantin Stan, 4 Daniel Chiriac, 5 Catalin Draguceanu, 6 Florin Corodeanu, 7 Erdinci Septar, 8 Alin Petrache (c), 9 Petre Mitu, 10 Roland Vusec, 11 Radu Fugigi, 12 Gabriel Brezoianu, 13 Romeo Gontineac, 14 Cristian Sauan, 15 Mihai Vioreanu
Reserves:  V. Chirita, Cristian Hildan, Marius Iacob, Aurel Popean, Ovidiu Slusariuc, Gheorghe Solomie, Dan Tudosa

Scotland:  1 George Graham, 2 Robbie Russell, 3 Tom Smith, 4 Stuart Grimes, 5 Scott Murray, 6 Martin Leslie, 7 Peter Walton, 8 Gordon Simpson, 9 Gary Armstrong, 10 Duncan Hodge, 11 Shaun Longstaff, 12 James McLaren, 13 Alan Tait, 14 Kenny Logan, 15 Glenn Metcalfe
Reserves:  Dave Hilton, Craig Joiner, Cameron Mather, Bryan Redpath, Doddie Weir
Unused:  Gavin Scott, Craig Chalmers

Attendance:  6807
Referee:  White c

Points Scorers:

Romania
Tries:  Mitu P. 1
Conv:  Mitu P. 1
Pen K.:  Mitu P. 4

Scotland
Tries:  Penalty Try 1, Grimes S.B. 1, Leslie M.D. 1, Logan K.McK. 2, McLaren J.G. 1, Smith T.J. 1, Tait A.V. 1
Conv:  Hodge D.W. 2, Logan K.McK. 5
Pen K.:  Logan K.McK. 2

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