North Star Intraleague Recap: Banger Sisters 93, Delta Delta Di 84
Posted by Softy Electric on December 5th, 2007
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1 – A first-half surge punctuated by two high-scoring jams was enough for the Banger Sisters to defeat Delta Delta Di 93-84 in the second set of bouts in the North Star Roller Girls 2007-08 season.
13 points by Torii Hunt Her on the third jam of the game and a 9 point follow-up from Dominatrix three jams later broke open a lead for the Bangers that the Deltas could not shore up at any time during the bout.
The Bangers led 54-43 at halftime, and Delta Delta Di did not come closer than 7 in the second half. “Some last-minute roster changes threw us off,” Delta co-captain MEDUSA said.
Delta Delta Di’s MEDUSA jams her way past Banger blocker Jowanna BEAT down. Photo credit: Fotodog.
Torii Hunt Her led the Banger Sisters with 38 points in the victory. Contrasted with her jammer opponents scoring only 22 points, her +14 left her as one of three Banger jammers earning a net gain for her team. Captain Roller Vixen scored 6 more than her opposing jammers, and Jowanna BEAT Down went 4-0 in her single appearance as a jammer.
“Our jammers rocked and I had a good game,” Torii Hunt Her said.
MEDUSA had 64 of the Delta’s points on 13 jams in the loss, equaling Torii Hunt Her’s success by having a net gain of 22. When the two jammer powerhouses faced off against each other in three jams, they skated to a draw with scores of 10-11, 7-6, and 4-4.
The Banger Sisters move to 1-1 with the victory, setting up the potential to take first place in the league when they square off January 12th with the undefeated Kilmore Girls.
The loss drops Delta Delta Di, last season’s North Star Intraleague Champion, to 0-2 on the season. Do the Deltas know what’s going wrong? Some point to the officiating – “I do, and so do the fans,” one Delta Delta Di player said about questioning referee calls after the bout.
Game Notes:
- MEDUSA scored over three times as many points as the rest of her team’s jammers combined, rolling 64 points compared to 20 for the rest of the team.
- A huge hit on Delta jammer Luscious D by Banger Sister Shotgun opened up a big scoring run for the Bangers on jam six.
- Both teams were worn down by penalties late in the bout, with at least one instance of both teams being down two blockers at the same time.
- Today marked the last bout for Delta Delta Di AJ Dropavich, who is moving to Denver. Dropavich plans on transferring to the Denver Roller Dolls. Her parting advice to new rollergirls? “Buy good pads. Seriously, spend the money on good pads.”