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WFTDA Sanctioned

#23 Brewcity Bruisers 120, Arch Rival Rollergirls 65 -- Despite the two teams' close rankings in the North Central region, Milwaukee's Brewcity Bruisers (#6 NC) nearly doubled the score of the Arch Rival Rollergirls (#8 NC) at St. Louis. When these two teams met last May, BCB lost to ARRG by 11 points.
 
In this meeting, though, the advantage was solidly Brew City. They took advantage of a slow start for ARRG by scoring 37 points in the first 10 jams while keeping ARRG to only 6 points. Although ARRG rallied and met BCB's play for much of the remaining bout, a few big jams in BCB's favor late in the second half secured the win.
 
In the first jam of the night, High D. Voltage put up a double grand slam as ARRG's Artemischief struggled with a Brewcity wall in the back of the pack. This jam was characteristic of BCB's tendency to control the pack speed, trap ARRG jammers in the back and force out-of-play calls to get their own jammers through in the front.
 
ARRG's Enya Nightmare managed a 13-0 jam at the end of the first half to bring the score to 59-25, and her team was on the winning side of a series of low-scoring jams early in the second half. With the score at 65-43 and about 19 minutes left to play, High D. Voltage dropped another 10-0 jam, followed shortly by an 8-0 for Skittle and later a 12-4 for Rhoda Ruin. High D. Voltage ended the night with a 15-0 jam against Enya Nightmare.

Brewcity improves to 2-0 on the 2010 campaign, adding to a win over Fort Wayne; Arch Rival is now 1-1 for the year, following last weekend's 172-92 win over Memphis. -- Jean Slay

Full recap on archrivalrollergirls.com.
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Montreal 187, Arizona 83 -- It was refs, skaters and superfans only at Castle Sports Complex for Sunday morning, WFTDA-sanctioned action between the Tent City Terrors of AZRD and the New Skids on the Block of Montreal. Coming off a narrow loss to Tucson the night before, Montreal was still looking for its first win of 2010. They got what they came for, outskating and outrunning the locals on their way to a 187-83 victory. The Terrors were held to 7 in the first quarter and 18 in the first half, but came out much stronger in the second, scoring a more-respectable 65.

After a 4-4 wash in the first jam, Montreal would go up by 4 in the second jam and never look back. Georgia W. Tush impressed with 60 points, but it was Lyndah Kicks who proved the most consistent and powerful, with a differential of 63-20 and taking lead on 10 of her 12 jams. Of note on defense was Ewan Wotarmy, who is easily Montreal's best hitter despite an unimposing frame. She can execute the sort of sweeping hip checks that scoop up her opponents and flop them straight to the ground. She did it several times against Tucson and virtually at will against AZRD.

Rayna Rage of AZRD was her team's most productive jammer at 39 points. Hacker, Messy Missy, and Domiskatrix all proved effective on defense but Montreal's superior pack control was able to consistently pull them out past 20 feet rather than deal with them directly.

With the win, Montreal improves to 1-2 on the year while AZRD start their year at 0-1. -- Julius Plaesar

Tucson 117, Montreal 108 -- An estimated 200 fans were turned away from Tucson Indoor Sports Complex due to the building reaching its 1,100-person capacity. In what was the finest interleague bout seen in Tucson since the Saddletramps' fall from national prominence, the hometown team jumped out to an early lead on the first jam and never let it go, but Montreal's New Skids on the Block did not make it easy. The Tramps won the contest by a modest nine points, 117-108.

More than half of Tucson's points were scored by marquee jammer Sami Automatic, and she dropped 20 of them in the first jam of the night. Georgia W. Tush was uncharacteristically sent to the penalty box before even finishing her first lap and the Tramps romped 20-0. Sami would end the night with 75 points and a +40 point differential in 16 jams, earning lead in 10.

Tush would redeem herself as the night went on. Discounting the 20 scored against her in the first jam, she would finish 38/25 on 11 other jams, earning lead in 6.

Montreal closed the score to 37-26 by the 15-minute mark, but fell back again by the half, 74-45.

Jammer/blocker Beater Pan-Tease owned the game's most exciting jam in which she twice lept over a sea of fallen skaters on her way to a 21-0 power jam that brought her team back into striking distance, 74-66. Those eight points were as close as Montreal got however. Despite not being outskated, Montreal's youth, innocence and neon colors were beaten by TRD's age and guile. The Tramps demonstrated superior pack control all night and it proved to be the difference. That, and an absolutely tremendous defensive performance by Helen Wheels of Tucson, who often took sole responsibility for stopping Montreal's jammers long enough for the Tramps to eke out lead jammer status.

Montreal won the second half, 63-43, but it was not enough to pull ahead, despite the 14-2 final jam heroics of Georgia W. Tush.

The Tramps remained unbeaten at 2-0, while Montreal fell to 0-2 on 2010 -- though they'd get their first win of the year the following day against Arizona. -- Julius Plaesar