Rat City’s Sockit Wenches in Double Header Challenge at Gotham

By Sock Puppet, Last updated Fri Oct 23 2009 1:55pm

NEW YORK, NY -- Two local teams from the #2 Gotham Girls Roller Derby wrap up their 2009 season with a unique doubleheader on Saturday night October 24 as both take on the visiting Sockit Wenches from Seattle’s #10 Rat City Rollergirls.

While GGRD’s Manhattan Mayhem and Bronx Gridlock cool their wheels and wait to compete in Gotham’s November finals, the Brooklyn Bombshells and Queens of Pain have invited the Rat City girls across the country for the back-to-back challenge.

Queens and Brooklyn are suiting up twelve players each, while the Sockit Wenches will be choosing rosters for each 40-minute matchup from a larger traveling pool of 20.

This bout will be presented on DNN in a live video and text boutcast. Join Bone Crawford and Li'l Red Terror for coverage starting at 8:30pm Eastern on Saturday, October 24.

Big derby names will be everywhere on the track. The Sockit Wenches feature some of the most experienced names in flat track roller derby, including Rat City All-Stars Juliet Bravo, Wile E. Peyote, Rebel Belle, Anya Heels, and X-Khan. The bouts will also feature a special farewell performance in a Rat City uniform from longtime Sockit Wench and legendary jammer Fortune (formerly known as Miss Fortune), who’s recently moved to Philadelphia from the Seattle area.

The Sockit Wenches finished the Rat City 2009 local season in May in second place with a record of 2-2. They’ll get to use the Gotham bouts to test drive some of their latest additions, including transfer skaters Jalapeño Business and Clara Plegic and newcomer Penni Vidi Vici. Unable to make the trip was Sarah Impalin’, who started 2009 as a rookie on Gotham’s Queens of Pain before relocating to Seattle and becoming a Sockit Wench in September.

This will be the final ’09 bout for both Gotham squads. The Bombshells (1-2 in 2009) are fresh off a September victory over the Queens of Pain (0-3).

Brooklyn features six rookies and transfers, including the irrepressible Montreal transplant OMG WTF and the experienced Boston transfer Evilicious. The Queens of Pain (0-3 in 2009) failed to score a victory in the GGRD home season, but feature some of the league’s most exciting All-Stars as well as a promising posse of rookies: Steel Magnolia, Knockturn Ali, and Anaïs Ninja. Queens also gained some interleague experience in ’09, losing a May challenge from Philly’s Broad Street Butchers.

Those tuning in to the live DNN video cast will spy many of GGRD’s All Star weapons as they tune up their skills prior to November’s Nationals. Suzy Hotrod, Ana Bollocks, Donna Matrix, and Hyper Lynx all hone their All-Star games with the Queens skaters in black, while Brooklyn boasts All-Stars Papierschnitt, Barbara Ambush, Hard Anya, Hela Skelter, and Raggedy Animal.

The internet videocast will be the first live derby video streamed from Hunter College, Gotham’s raucous home venue. At this writing, only a handful of tickets are left; those shut out should be able to enjoy one of the most ambitious four-camera productions of live broadcast roller derby to date.

Rosters:

Brooklyn Bombshells

31 Hela Skelter
8 ½ x 11 Papierschnitt
1600 Barbara Ambush
121 Bitch Cassidy
12 Carmen Monoxide
27 Demonica Mars
Break her 1-9 Double Clutch
420 Evilicious
i4i Hard Anya
the O.G. Megahurtz
66 nameLes
753 OMG WTF
67 Raggedy Animal

Queens of Pain

55 Suzy Hotrod
00 Ana Bollocks
101 Anaïs Ninja
5 Bluebonnet Plague
24 hrs Dinah Party
2 Donna Matrix
32 Greta Turbo
10-4 Haulin’ Cass
404 Hyper Lynx
355 Knockturn Ali
61 Steel Magnolia
edge of 17 Stevie Kicks

Sockit Wenches

440 big block Clobberin’ Mame
46 Swede Hurt
6 shooter Anya Heels
56 Caddie Smack
88 Clara Plegic
99 Fortune
17 Ima Handful
76 Juliet Bravo
14 Moe YaDown
40oz Nasty Trick
22 Jalapeno Business
753 BC Penni Vidi Vici
crazy 8 Raven Mad
7-11 Rebel Belle
30 Shovey Chase
420 Sister Piston
1 lump or 2 Sugar N. CreamHer
59 Trouble Loves Mimi
21g Wile E. Peyote
18 to Life X-Khan