SAN SALVADOR DE JUJUY, Argentina (AP) Argentina ended a five-match losing run by beating Georgia 45-29 in a one-off rugby test on Saturday.
Left winger Ramiro Moyano redeemed himself for a yellow card in the first half by scoring a hat trick of tries to boost the Pumas from 26-8 up at halftime to 45-15 before the end of the third quarter.
Georgia scored two more converted tries after considerable pressure to cut the margin, but fell to a fifth defeat in five matches against the Pumas, three of them at Rugby World Cups.
Even after Moyano was sin-binned for a reckless aerial challenge, Argentina added two more penalty kicks and kept Georgia from scoring.