Scotland 48 Romania 6: Scotland prepared for the upcoming matches with the Pacific Islanders and Australia by seeing off Romania with plenty to spare on Saturday. The home side broke their opponents' resistance in the 14th minute when number eight John Beattie crashed over for a debut try after Jason White had attracted the attention of three tacklers.
Phil Godman successfully added the conversion but Florin Vlaicu replied with a penalty to leave the score at 7-3 at the midpoint of the half.
Scotland immediately hit back, Hugo Southwell outpacing centre Catalin Dascalu on the outside before chipping over Vlaicu and collecting the ball to slide over.
Romania were penalised at a scrum five minutes later and White invited Godman to kick the straightforward penalty to move Scotland 15-3 ahead.
Southwell extended Scotland's lead to 17 points when he dived over in the same corner for his second try of the match in the 36th minute. Rob Dewey fended off two tacklers to skip over and move his side further ahead.
Vlaicu kicked a second penalty to double his side's tally while an event of more significance occurred in the 55th minute when James Hamilton replaced Nathan Hines to become the 1,000th player to be capped by Scotland.
Godman then got in on the try-scoring act when he skipped over for his first in international rugby after good work from Webster and Southwell. Hooker Dougie Hall followed suit with his first try for Scotland in the 65th minute after the Edinburgh man was sent clear by a clever pass from replacement Chris Cusiter.
Cusiter danced over for Scotland's seventh try of the game following a slick handling move, with replacement Chris Paterson to the fore. Webster was ankle-tapped in the closing stages to deny Scotland the chance to finish the game in style by bringing up their half-century.
SCOTLAND: Southwell (Paterson 66); Webster, Di Rollo, Dewey, Lamont; Godman, Blair (Cusiter 60); Kerr (Jacobson 50), Hall (Lawson 70), E Murray (Smith 55); Hines (Hamilton 55), S Murray; White (Callam h-t), Brown, Beattie.
ROMANIA: Vlaicu; Brezoianu, Dascalu (Gal 53), Gontineac (Tofan 70), Teodorescu; Dimofte, Calafeteanu (Lupu 72); P Balan (Popescu 64), Tincu, B Balan (Paulica 45); Socol, Petre; Corodeanu (Ursache 61), Ratiu, Tonita.
Referee: Matt Goddard (South Africa)
