Atlanta Takes Out Assassination City, 145-68
MESQUITE, TX -- The Dirty South Derby Girls of the Atlanta Rollergirls started off hot and would not be threatened as they beat Assassination City 145-68 Sunday night in Mesquite, Texas. Assassination City is ranked 7th in the South Central region by WFTDA, while Atlanta is currently ineligible for WFTDA ranking. Neither team is currently in DNN's national top 25.
The bout stayed close in the opening minutes, but a ping-pong contest quickly turned into a rout after the first three jams. Atlanta started off with a 4-0 jam by Thunder Enlightenin', but the Assassination City Special Ops countered with a 4-0 jam of their own by Olive Illegal to tie the score up. Atlanta would take a 7-6 lead after a three point jam by Alassin Sane. After that jam, the team from Georgia was in complete control, especially after they shut out Assassination City for the next 11 jams, outscoring the host team 47-0.
Belle of the Brawl took the big jam of the bout honors with a 20-point jam on a power play in the ninth jam of the first half, as Atlanta's blockers trapped and slowed the opposing blockers down to almost no movement as Belle would circle and circle the pack with little opposition from the stymied blockers. Thunder Enlightenin' would score nine points in the next jam, with Alassin Sane following up with a seven-point jam. Atlanta led 54-6 after the 14th jam.
Assassination City jammer Harassiz Mine breathed some life back into the Special Ops scoring an eight-point jam, and Red Hot Rage followed up with a 3-0 jam to narrow the lead to 60-17. But the last jam would see a penalty on the jammer for the team from North Texas, and the Merchant of Menace would score 11 points before she was also sent to the penalty box just before extended time ran out in the half, with Atlanta leading 71-17.
Atlanta came out and scored five hard-fought points in the opening two jams to up their lead to 76-17. But the home team would counter with a 36-11 run over the next seven jams to narrow the lead to 92-53. In the third jam ACD's Olive Illegal put up a nine-point jam and it was followed up by the largest jam of the night by Assassination City, as Red Hot Rage threw 11 points up on the scoreboard. In the eighth jam of the second half, Vanna Rockin' would add nine more points, and Miley Virus scored seven points to finish off the Special Ops' run.
Momentum would soon go back to the visitors, though. Atlanta jammer JuJu answered back emphatically with a 16-point jam, and Alassin Sane would follow that jam up with a 12-point jam. Atlanta was back up by 71 points at the end of the 12th jam. Assassination City outscored Atlanta 13-3 over the next four jams, but the Dirty South Derby Girls would close out the bout with a 16-point jam in the extended-time closing jam, as the team from Georgia posted the final points in the 145-68 score.
Leading scorers for Atlanta included Thunder Enlightenin' with 38 points, JuJu with 37 points, Belle of the Brawl with 30 points, Alassin Sane with 21 points, and The Merchant of Menace with 19 points. All individual scoring is unofficial. Top blockers for the Dirty South Derby Girls were Queen Loseyateefa, Sk8 Outa Compton, Tanya Hyde, and Switchblade Siouxsie.
The top scorers for the Special Ops from Assassination City were Olive Illegal with 17 points, Red Hot Rage and Miley Virus with 14 points each, and Vanna Rockin' with 13 points. Leading blockers for the home team included Mona Bruiser, Sloane Gunman, Harassiz Mine, and Mary Ate Ashley.
Next up for Atlanta is a bout at home against up-and-coming Steel City (ranked 8th in the East region by WFTDA, unranked nationally by DNN) on February 28th -- Steel City's coming off a major rout of the nominally higher-ranked Connecticut, 149-33.
Assassination City is next in action against cross-town rivals Dallas (SC region, unranked by WFTDA, #25 DNN) on March 7th; that's a doubleheader that finds men's team Dallas Deception taking on the Dry Heat Militia from Tucson, AZ.
Reposted with permission from Roller Derby Is Sport.
Photos: Ziv Kruger
