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#11 Charm City 220, #23 Kansas City 158 -- In a bout that turned almost entirely on four enormous powerjams for Charm City's Just Carol and major second-half penalty woes for Kansas City, hosting Charm City defeated KC by 62 points in a rematch of their July bout from last year.  

Charm City’s Just Carol scored first with a 4-0 jam over Bella Fire, but Kansas answered back with 12-0 over the next two jams.  The following jam, however combined Charm’s defense and a back block major from KCRW jammer Track Rat to give Just Carol a huge 20-0 jam to put Charm back into a lead. Three jams later Charm’s blockers locked up jammer Hall Balls allowing Carol to pick up a 25-0, but Bella Fire responded with a 14-0 on a boxed Flo Shizzle to bring the score to 72-51 for Charm.

At the six minute mark the score was up to 80-65 for Charm when KC jammer Kelley Young lost her helmet cover. She attempted to call off the jam, figured out something was wrong, skated clockwise to get her cover, picked it up, and immediately got sent to the box. Meanwhile, Just Carol was off to her 3rd enormous powerjam win, picking up a 24-0. Three jams later --including one with jammers Kelley Young and Lady Quebeaum taking two trips to the box each -- the half ended with Charm City leading 122-75.

The second half saw a lot of jams with multiple blockers in the box for both teams, but the combination of strong defensive plays and jammers completing initial passes nearly simultaneously led to a lot of close scoring.  With just over six minutes remaining in the half the score stood at 165-119 for Charm City (a 43-44 half) and the Roller Warriors were finally able to line up the breakout jam that they needed. Their blockers locked up Lady Quebeaum while Hall Balls breezed through the pack for a huge 22-0 jam, suddenly putting the bout back in reach for KC at 165-141 with less than four minutes remaining.  

The following jam, however, saw the Kansas City jammer Bella Fire get sent to the box on a forearm to be joined by some of her blockers. Charm City now had a 4-2 pack advantage with Just Carol on a power jam which turned out a game-sealing, crowd-igniting 30-4 to Charm. Two jams later, the final score had Charm City 220, Kansas City 158.

Kansas City’s scoring was led by Kelley Young with 56 and Hall Balls with 49 while Annie Maul showed amazing defense and earned the MVP.  Charm City’s scoring was dominated by Just Carol with an astonishing 112 points, a +97 jammer point differential, and 19 grand slams. Charm’s defense saw many key plays by both Dolly Rocket and Joy Collision, the latter earning the MVP. - N8

Read the play-by-play in DNN's archived boutcast.

#16 Steel City 225, Burning River 62 -- In a fast-paced and friendly but often chaotic bout, Steel City used dominating defense and some well-timed big jams to defeat Cleveland's Burning River All-Stars. Early powerjams enabled Pittsburgh jammer Hurricane Heather to score 28 of the team's 32 points before Burning River could get on the board. Punkd Pixie, powerjamming for Burning River, found herself stymied by Steel Hurtin' blockers until the 20-foot rule freed her for 9 points, closing the lead down to 23, which was the closest Burning River would get this night. Steel Hurtin' rattled off some brief successful jams and the score sat at 52-13 at the 15-minute mark.

Defense stayed solid and consistent for Steel Hurtin' for the rest of the half and was at times spectacular, with J-Bomb and Athena each taking out a pair of opposing blockers at once. As the half wound down, the Steel Hurtin' scoring surged, and they outscored the Cleveland crew by 89-7 over the last 15 minutes, bringing the first half to a close at 141-20 Steel Hurtin'.

The second half began with Burning River changing up their strategy; they attempted several times to free-up their jammers by letting the Steel Hurtin' four-wide line slip ahead further than 20 feet from them. Coach BArf responded by splitting the Pittsburgh blockers into two in front and two behind the Cleveland pack. Still, the pace change seemed to be benefitting Burning River as they outscored Steel Hurtin' 17-16 over the first 7 jams of the half. But as the fifteen-minute mark passed, a back block major by the Killustrator gave Kat Von Destroya another powerjam which she cashed in for another 14. With three-quarters of the bout done, the score was 189-37.

Skating in slower and sometimes stopped packs, CoCo Sparx blocked with reckless abandon, but she and her teammates could not solve the Steel Hurtin' defense, and in the end Pittsburgh's crew won by a solid 163 points. -- Michael Frighten'd

#23 Kansas City 201, DC 104 -- DC fell into an enormous 90-9 hole in the first 15 minutes of their Sunday afternoon bout with Kansas City, but managed to get their footing back and mostly match KC on the scoreboard for the remainder of the game to lose by 97.

Although initially flummoxed by Kansas City’s slow game, DC appeared to adjust quickly enough to keep pace with the Warriors on the point spread for the first three jams. The proverbial dam burst in the subsequent two jams, however, when both Roller Rage Rosie and then Marion Barrycuda were sent to the box on track-cutting calls and the Kansas City pack put the brakes on to allow an 18-0 jam from Hall Balls, followed by a whopping 30-0 one by Kelley Young. Barely 5 minutes into the bout, Kansas City had built a nearly 60-point lead.

Clearly shaken by that point hemorrhage, DC managed to prevent any further scoring sprees with a strong front wall, though Kansas City’s back wall proved stronger, trapping DC’s jammers and allowing for several successive hit-and-quit jams that snowballed their lead to nearly 90 points with only 15 minutes gone. DC rallied impressively in the last 10 minutes of the half, though, with a well-played hit by Soledad on Kansas City jammer Extremely Frank that allowed Marion Barrycuda to rocket out of the pack as lead jammer; when Frank was sent to the box, Barrycuda seized the opportunity to put 15 unanswered points on the board. The next jam saw Kansas City’s jammer in the box again and a 9-4 for Small Frye, and DC closed out the half with two hit-and-quit jams that put the point gap back in the 60s, with a score of 109-48.

The second half began with more start-and-stop action in the pack, as DC cottoned on to Kansas City’s slow-jam strategy. An impenetrable Kansas City back wall that held up DC jammer Sookie Slaughterhouse, freeing KC’s Young put up 11 points, was almost immediately mimicked by DC in a subsequent jam, earning 9 points for Barrycuda. Ultimately, though, Kansas City’s jammers proved to have better timing in calling off jams, pushing the scoring gap back up to 80 points. Although DC was able to capitalize on some Kansas City penalty trouble in the final jams to push their points over the century mark, Kansas City’s lead had already swelled to nearly twice that, and KC rolled away with a commanding 201-104 victory. -- Lady Burn Johnson

#7 Philly 119, #4 Denver 106 -- Read the play-by-play in DNN's archived boutcast.

#4 Denver 203, #13 Boston 100 -- Read the play-by-play in DNN's archived boutcast.

#19 Cincinnati 139, #25 Brewcity 67 -- Read the play-by-play in DNN's archived boutcast.