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(18) Nashville 115, Arch Rival 82 -- Tennesseeans braved torrential rain on Saturday night to witness Nashville’s most exciting bout this season. The crowd was smaller than usual, but the regular score changes kept fans on the edge of their seats. Unlike Nashville’s previous games this season, the score in Saturday night’s bout was not in Nashville’s favor the entire night.

Nashville seemed ready to repeat history with St. Louis’ Arch Rival Roller Girls scoring no points in the first three jams of the night. ARRG changed the scoring trend in the 8th jam of the first period when the score was 15 ARRG and 14 NRG. NRG continued to creep up the score until ARRG took the lead in jam 13 and kept it until the end of the first half. The score at half-time was 43-42 for Arch Rival.

The second period seemed destined to duplicate the results of the first period, even with a 14-point jam putting Nashville briefly in the lead in the second jam. The tide finally turned in the 10th jam of the second period when Nashville put up 12 points against Arch Rival's 4 and the bout score was 82 to 76. Nashville found their groove and maintained the score lead for the rest of the night.

The teams were fairly evenly matched on penalties, with Nashville receiving a total of 68 minors and 21 majors and Arch Rival receiving 64 minors and 20 majors. Nashville’s stand-out defensive player for the night was #36DD Maulin Monroe who played double duty jamming and blocking. ARRG's stand out defensive player was #929 Davey Blockit. -- Leann Lewis

Houston 188, Dixie 31 -- The Houston Roller Derby HaRD Knocks utilized numerous big jams and a stingy defense to defeat the Dixie Derby Girls 188-31 Saturday night in Houston.

The bout started off evenly with both teams scoring a point in the first jam. But with each team’s jammer serving a penalty in the second jam, Jekyll and Heidi scored a 9-5 advantage giving Houston a 10-6 lead.

Then the HaRD Knocks proceeded to tighten up its defense. Over the next seven jams, the home team would shut out the visitors from Alabama on a 36-0 run. After a 4-4 tenth jam, Houston went on a 23-2 scoring run featuring a 15 point jam by Beverly Kills, pushing the lead to 73-13. At the half, Houston led 100-18.

While the first four jams of the second half were fairly evenly matched, Houston scored three huge jams in the next four jams to reestablish command of the bout. Carmen Geddit came out of the penalty box, took lead jammer status and scored 13 points in the sixth jam. bo Bituary followed that up with a 12 point jam for the HaRD Knocks, and then Mistilla dropped the largest jam of the bout, a 19-0 that gave the home team a 155–30 lead. Houston applied shutdown defense the rest of the bout, allowing only one more point and taking a 188-31 victory.

The leading scorers for Houston Roller Derby was Mistilla with 45 points, Beverly Kills with 43 points, Candy Codeine with 18 points, and Carmen Geddit with 16 points. Leading the strong defense for the home team in the blocking department was Rebel Ann, The Prosecutor and Becky Booty.

The top scorers for the Dixie Derby Girls were Wicked One with 17 points, CU Afterclass with seven points, and Cakeface Killa with six points. Leading blockers for the team from Huntsville, Alabama included Snidely Bitchslap, Lola Pirhana, eRacerX, and Ebbin Flow. -- Phil Arnold

Reprinted with permission from Phil Arnold's Examiner page.