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WFTDA Sanctioned Interleague

(23) Brewcity 137, Fort Wayne 35 -- For almost all of the first half, this WFTDA North Central clash looked set to be a defensively-minded nailbiter. A series of very low-scoring jams was broken up by one 10-0 jam for each team, leaving it 14-13 for BrewCity after 8 jams. A 5-0 powerjam from Fort Wayne's Majestic gave the home team their first lead at 18-14 with about 15 minutes left in the first.

The defensive struggle continued over the next five jams, with Brewcity just barely claiming a series of very narrow jam wins -- 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, 4-0, and 4-1-- that got them back in the lead at 28-22 with about 6 minutes to play. But Brewcity nearly doubled their score on the final three jams of the half -- 13-0 to Rhoda Ruin, 4-0 to Carrie A. Hacksaw and 10-0 to Cookie Ciano. Suddenly, the game had gotten away from Fort Wayne and they were looking at a 55-22 deficit at the break.

The story of the second half was twofold -- first, a spectacular debut performance from BrewCity rookie Skittle, who was playing in her very first public bout ever but looked like an old pro as she racked up three huge jams -- 15-0, 10-0 and 20-0. The first two accounted for 25 of Brewcity's 29 points over the opening six jams of the half, helping to close the door on Fort Wayne's hopes.

However, the other part of the story was FWDG helping to close the door on themselves with massive penalty trouble that left them with full boxes and occasional box queues. On one particularly unfortunate sequence that led to Skittle's 15-0, an end of jam penalty pileup left them with three blockers in the box and two on the track, leading to a confused FWDG crew spending more time trying to figure out who was allowed to be on the track than trying to stop Skittle.

In the end, BCB dominated the second half, outscoring Fort Wayne 82-13. Skittle finished the bout with 46 points on 5 jams and a +45 jammer point differential and was named Most Valuable Jammer; Brewcity's Rhoda Ruin backed Skittle up with 30 points on 7 jams and a +26 JPD. Defensively, Servin' Justice, Carrie A. Hacksaw and Anna "Killy" Krajcik were major parts of Brewcity's second-half dominance. Rejected Seoul, historically often used as a jammer, blocked exclusively in this one and was effective enough to claim the Most Valuable Blocker award at the end of the night.

FWDG scoring was led by Majestic, with 14 points on 9 jams but a -25 JPD, while Sweet Avenger came in second in points but first in effectiveness with 10 points on 3 jams and a +10 JPD.

See Bruce "McMoosie" Berna's photoset from the bout. Brewcity's next WFTDA sanctioned action is against Arch Rival on February 20th; Fort Wayne takes on Hamilton, Ontario's Hammer City on February 13th. -- Justice Feelgood Marshall