By Derby News Network, Last updated Tue Jul 20 2010 3:57am

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Men's Derby

Harm City 216, Connecticut 48 -- Baltimore's Harm City Homicide had had a frustrating season so far with only 1 expo-bout victory in 7 outings, but they scored a blowout win at home over the winless Connecticut Death Quads for their first full-length victory since a defeat of Tucson in October 2009.

Connecticut nabbed a 2-0 lead on the first jam with Zakk Sabbath beating out Virginia Slim, but that was as long as the Connecticut lead survived. Homicide took lead jammer on the next six jams, and a 15-0 jam from Homicide rookie Abe Froman over Pastor of Muppets had Homicide up 40-13 about 12 minutes in.

Harm City was fairly effective at establishing the pack speed by capturing a Connecticut player in the back, and in powerjam situations, that translated into big lopsided wins. With the score 44-18, the game-defining sequence came on jam 10, where the Homicide blockers put on a molasses-slow trap on a powerjam for Justice Feelgood Marshall. That went 24-0 for Justice, and two jams later they did the exact same thing for a Virginia Slim 20-0. In three jams Homicide had doubled their score and opened up a 88-21 lead.

Both teams were skating short with 10 players, but Connecticut was hit hard by the loss of jammer Zakk Sabbath at the very end of the first half. He'd be removed on a backboard and taken to the hospital for observation -- though he'd be quickly cleared, it left Connecticut looking at a 116-42 deficit and reduced to a two-jammer rotation of Cirkle Jerk and Pastor of Muppets for the remainder of the bout.

Although CT battled through the half, led by an MVP performance from the seemingly inexhaustible Cirkle Jerk, the second was mostly more of the same. Homicide was able to kill most of their penalties while exploding for big wins when they had the jammer advantage, including a 18-0 for Justice and a 19-0 for Quad Almighty. In the end Homicide took the win by 168.

Justice Feelgood Marshall led Harm City scoring with 78, with Virginia Slim (48 points) and HCH MVP Quad Almighty (21) just behind; Cirkle Jerk led Connecticut with 47.

Harm City improves to 1-2 in the Men's Derby Coalition inaugural season, while Connecticut remains winless at 0-3 -- they meet again on August 7 in Yonkers, NY. -- Justice Feelgood Marshall

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