Scotland's second Test of summer tour, following last week's comprehensive win over Canada
Duhan van der Merwe scores his 27th international try to put him level with Stuart Hogg as Scotland's record try scorer
Ewan Ashman scores a first-half hat-trick for the Scots, while Tommaso Boni hits back for the US
George Horne and Matt Fagerson cross for Scotland after the break
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Andrew Petrie
What's next?published at 01:32 British Summer Time 13 July 2024
01:32 BST 13 July 2024
We jet off to Santiago next week.
Remember, BBC Scotland will air the trip to Chile on 20 July, with an 20:00 BST kick-off, as well as the final match in the tour against Uruguay in Montevideo a week later.
I'll be doing the TV commentary on that one alongside former Scotland hooker Fraser Brown. Join me!
Until then, have a good one.
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Will Duhan van der Merwe break the try-scoring record in Chile?
Rowe the highlight for spent Scotspublished at 01:28 British Summer Time 13 July 2024
01:28 BST 13 July 2024
FT: USA 7-42 Scotland
Last week, I tried to be quite upbeat about the scorefest in Ottawa. We saw a lot of young players make their debuts at Test level, and come through with flying colours.
This time, it's harder to see the positives. Okay, the win was comfortable. But the game was terrible, not helped by the energy-sapping conditions or the error-strewn opposition.
Plenty of experienced players in that Scotland team, players who have shown their fitness time and again, looked absolutely done in and need of a rest.
At least Kyle Rowe looked lively at full-back, an area where Scotland desperately need depth.
Full-time USA 7-42 Scotlandpublished at 01:24 British Summer Time 13 July 2024
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Scotland get the job done in solid, if unspectacular, style.
Three first-half tries from Ewan Ashman, and a record-equalling score from Duhan van der Merwe, meant the game was done and dusted by half-time and there was to be no repeat of Houston in 2018.
The second-half was a snoozefest and, given the time difference, plenty of Scottish fans would have been quite happy to turn off early.
Tom English BBC Scotland's chief sports writer on X
Training in 38° during the week and playing in 25° - not sure how this Test benefits any of the established Scotland players at the end of a long season.
The rain has started to pour down in Washington DC, just to add to the intrepid conditions. I wonder how many knock-ons we'll see in the final five minutes.
Matt Currie is also on, for his second cap. Not many debutants in the squad after last week's carousel of new faces.
Converted try USA 7-42 SCOTLANDpublished at 74 mins
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Matt Fagerson
A knock on from the USA allows Scotland a scrum on the five-metre line. The hosts are tiring quicker than the Scottish audience watching this second-half.
It's a huge shove from the Scottish pack, they push the scrum over the line and Fagerson drops on the ball over the line.
Scotland are finally able to make some headway, but the visitors wore some huge hits there. Sione Tuipulotu, Ross Thompson and Matt Fagerson were all on the receiving end of some hard tackles.
There's another knock on, and we trudge towards the last 10 minutes.
Luke Crosbie is the latest Scotland sub off the bench, replacing Jamie Ritchie.
Meanwhile, the Scots are going backwards in this attacking phase. Shovelling rubbish, as an old coach of mine used to say. Hello Mr Murray, if you're reading along!
Jamie Dobie has come on, and he's playing at scrum-half. Wonder of wonders! A decent outing from George Horne again. I wonder if he's playing his way into the starting scrum-half spot in the autumn.
Robbie Smith is also on at hooker, replacing hat-trick hero Ewan Ashman.