Dallas Hosts Male / Female Doubleheader

By Justice Feelgood Marshall, Last updated Sat Mar 7 2009 3:59pm

DALLAS, TX -- This Saturday night finds Dallas derby making some history in multiple ways as they host a full-length, male / female doubleheader. The first bout finds the very first time that two WFTDA teams from the same city have faced off against each other at home, as the Dallas Derby Devils take on Assassination City. In the second bout, a new men's team has its public debut, as the Tucson Dry Heat Militia battles the boys from the Dallas Deception.

This is actually the second meeting between Dallas Derby Devils and Assassination City, but the first one took place in Austin at the 2006 Governor's Cup tournament. Dallas was victorious in that one, but three years is an entirely different era in derby time, and both teams have seen plenty of turnover since then.

2008 wasn't too good to the Dallas ladies, who went 3-8 and were the only crew to go winless at the Western Regionals. 2009 has started on more of an up note for them, though, as they're coming off a narrow victory over Atlanta in February, where they managed to hold off a fierce late comeback to emerge on the right end of a 115-108 final.

Assassination City was relatively quiet as a travel team over 2008, with half their action taking place at the 2008 Governor's Cup in September -- they defeated Alamo City 96-74 but were pasted 166-23 by a B team from Texas. Earlier in the year, they lost to West Texas 136-66 and defeated the Oklahoma Victory Dolls 112-53. They played Atlanta the same February weekend that Dallas did, but came out on the wrong side of that one, losing 145-68.

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The men's half of the evening features one of the more experienced teams in male derby taking on the newest. The Dallas Deception's public debut as a team was at the 2008 Throwdown in the Sound tournament, where they impressed with a 3-1 record, defeating the Diamond City Death Kings (from Wilkes-Barre, PA) once and the Twin City Terrors (from Minneapolis, MN) twice in mini-bouts, with their only loss to Puget Sound.

At the Governor's Cup in 2008, Dallas Deception played a pickup team of skaters from the Southern Scallywags, Puget Sound Derby Outcasts, Diamond City and New York Shock Exchange skating under the name Manifest Destiny -- Dallas lost that one, 89-72. Most recently, though, Dallas defeated a combination of Southern Scallywags and Twin City Terrors (with a somewhat lopsided roster of 11 for the Deception and 19 for the SS/TCT.)

For the Tucson men's team, it's their first public event. They'll have three guest skaters from Baltimore's Harm City Homicide: original Homicide members Justice Feelgood Marshall and Sin Diesel, along with Gearhead, who debuted for Homicide in January in a bout vs. Connecticut.

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