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#8 Charm City 152, #11 Boston 136 -- Charm City and Boston continued their long standing tradition of exciting bouts on Saturday in the Du Burns Arena in Baltimore, MD. In a bout with fast packs and 13 ties or lead changes, the game came down to the last jam, where Charm held on to win 152-136.

The bout began with 1-1 and 4-4 tie jams, but Boston’s Krushpuppy was able to gain lead and 5-0 over Charm’s Allie B. Back for the first lead of the game. The lead changed hands twice more before Charm equalized again at 24-all after 15 minutes. Charm and Boston traded some small margin victories before Boston’s defense held I.M. Pain long enough for Krushpuppy to earn a huge 15-0, putting Boston up for the biggest lead they’d see all night: 46-28 with 7:44 remaining in the half.

Charm City took a timeout and it clearly paid off with a 44-3 run. Holden Grudges’s first jam of the night ended with a huge 21-0 swing to put Charm ahead 49-46. In the next jam Charm’s defensive wall of Joy Collision and Dolly Rocket forced Killary Clinton to call the jam at 0-0, but Krushpuppy was able to pick up a 3-0 to tie the game yet again, 49-49. Charm ended the half strong; Just Carol dropped an unopposed 15-0, with Holden following with an 8-0 to put Charm up 72-49 at the half -- their largest lead of the game.

The second half began with Boston barely outscoring Charm 7-6 over the first four jams, but the Charm lead quickly vanished after that. Sugar Hits picked up lead jammer while Just Carol picked up a 4th minor, giving Boston a huge leg up with a 19-0 jam to put score at 77-75 for Charm.  Krushpuppy followed with a quick 5-0 to give Boston the lead yet again, 80-77. Each of the next three jams would also see lead changes, and after the dust settled Charm was in the lead 104-91 with 16 minutes left.

Boston regained the momentum, shutting out Charm for the next 4 jams to take the lead back to 106-104 Boston. Two jams later, Charm’s blockers trapped Etta Maims and stopped the pack while I.M. Pain took advantage of a power jam to earn a monstrous 17-5, putting Charm back in the lead again at 123-112.  Boston answered with a 5-0 and 7-0 jam of their own to go ahead yet again at 124-123 with just over 5 minutes remaining.

Flo Shizzle lined up for Charm against Claire D. Way for Boston with full packs on the track.  Flo earned lead and was able to gain 8-4 for Charm City for one more lead change, putting Charm City up 131-128.
 
With just under two minutes to go, Charm was up 134-128 and Boston jammer Lil' Paine had to start the jam in the box -- but Flo Shizzle committed an ill-timed major forearm penalty that sprung Paine. Paine was able to earn lead status, but a jammer takedown allowed Flo to earn a grand slam out of the box before Paine called it off, netting a 5-2 for Charm as Boston called timeout with 0:23 remaining and the score 139-130 Charm City.  

Krushpuppy got lead over I.M. Pain in the last jam, but Boston's final chance dissipated when Krush was boxed in her second scoring pass on a track cut. I.M. Pain finished with a 13-6 jam to ice the game for Charm City, 152-136.

Boston’s defense was led by Claire D. Way and Lil’ Paine, while their scoring was led by Krushpuppy (53 points) and Sugar Hits (34 points). Sugar Hits earned the MVP. Charm’s defense was led by Reckless Ndangerment and Deathany while their scoring was led by I.M. Pain (38 points) and Holden Grudges (30 points).  I.M. Pain earned the MVP. -- N8

See full bout video from Tuffnerd Productions (first half, second half) and archived textcast.

#3 Rocky Mountain 151, #10 Windy City 56 -- The Windy City Rollers’ All-Stars were served a brutal 95-point loss at the hands of the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls’ 5280 Fight Club at the UIC Pavilion. Ranked #10 in DNN’s unofficial national power rankings and #1 in WFTDA’s North Central Division, the WCR All-Stars faced aggressive, athletic jamming and blocking from the #3 power-ranked Fight Club, who are second only to Oly in the West.

Rocky Mountain jumped to an early, substantial lead with DeRanged’s fifteen-point first jam. Athena DeCrime put three points on the board for the All-Stars in the fifth jam, but Fight Club blockers effectively recycled WCR jammers to keep Windy City to single digits for the first eighteen minutes of play. DeRanged and She Who Cannot Be Named played both aggressive defense and offense from the jammer line, relentlessly widening the gap and leaving the floor with a 77-22 halftime score.

The second half saw RMRG jammers DeRanged, She Who Cannot Be Named, Urrk’n Jerk’n, and Frida Beater taking lead jammer status and aggressive defensive action against WCR jammers. Rocky Mountain's blockers controlled the pack with hard hits and an intermittently successful slow game strategy. Despite facing a nearly standstill pack that drew scattered boos from the crowd, Athena DeCrime took lead jam and scored 10 for the All-Stars in the eighth jam. Back-to-back trips to the penalty box for Varla Vendetta and Ruth Enasia, however, gave RMRG power jam opportunities that threatened to widen the lead to the century mark. With less than six minutes left in the bout, the All-Stars fought point by point to save themselves from that fate but suffered their second loss at home with a final score of 151-56. -- Poppy Spock

Archived textcast

#5 Denver 180, #13 Madison 63 -- Denver improved to 7-1 on the 2010 campaign with a solid triple-digit rout of visiting Madison. Madison dropped to 1-7, continuing to struggle with a very tough strength of schedule that has seen them play 5 top-ten teams this year.

The first jam started off evenly, with Denver’s Julie Adams getting lead jammer and Madison’s Jewels of DeNile right on her tail. Adams called for a 0-0 jam. But the second jam would set the tone for the night as Denver’s Andrea Hill scored 25-0 over Madison’s Mouse, who went to the box, along with two Madison blockers, making it a full penalty box for Madison.

Gabby Begeman followed up in the next jam with a 19-0 over Sugalumps, and Madison did not score until the eight jam, with three points for Darling Nikki over two for Julie Adams. The first half ended on the strength of a 14-0 for Denver's Andrea Hill over Charlie Hustle, making the halftime score 125-19.

The second half saw eight lead jammers for Madison, only one shy of Denver’s nine. Madison, however, was unable to capitalize on their lead jammers as much as they needed to. In the second half, they scored 44 points to Denver’s 55, much closer than the first half. But Denver had already run away with the score in the first half.

Top scorers for Denver were Andrea Hill (82 points on 9 jams), Julie Adams (27/14), Monica Carson (27/8), and Gabby Begeman (21/2). Top scorers for Madison were Chop Suzzy with 21 points on 4 jams, Jewels of DeNile (13/4), Vicious van GoGo (12/3), and Darling Nikki (8/6). -- Yi-Nan "Double Easy" Zhang

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#16 Steel City 182, Nashville 69 -- In what began as a penalty-free low-scoring, pack control-focused bout, the Nashville Music City Rollergirls crossed the Mason-Dixon line for the final regular-season Steel City Derby Demons event. After two jams, and a 2-1 Nashville lead, 'Snot Rocket Science played some good Steel City jammer-on-jammer defense against Britches N' Hose. As the Nashville pack slid back to their jammer's aid, 'Snot Rocket Science sped for lead jammer. Friction Vixxxen, making her Steel City debut after previous stints with Austin and Denver, kept Britches N' Hose under control while 'Snot Rocket Science's 4 points captured a 5-2 lead for Steel City.

The mighty Showstopper for Nashville kept The Crippler under control long enough for Rambo Sambo to tie the game at 5. Hurricane Heather, using her speed to escape the relentlessly hard-hitting Nashville blocker Union Jack-U-Up, finally cracked things open for a pair of grand slams. The 18-5 Steel City lead would never be reduced or relinquished. In the first powerjam opportunity of the bout,  Hurricane Heather put some big moves on Showstopper and Britches N' Hose and leapt over a Union Jack-U-Up block for 15 points. Midway through the first half, Steel City had a 39-10 lead.

With what would essentially be a tie game without the two breakout jams by Hurricane Heather, good defense by both teams continued to dominate the second quarter. Steel City blockers managed to shut out Nashville 7 of 9 jams in a row. 'Snot Rocket Science and Maulin Monroe both went to the box as jammers in the last jam of the half, but SRS pulled out a 8-3 to close the half at 75-20 Steel City.

The second half opened things up for longer and higher-scoring jams for both teams, though the advantage began to overwhelmingly go to Steel City. Four-Leaf Roller continued to be a defensive standout for Nashville, but her jammers could not seem to break through as Steel City blockers began a 15-jam series shutting out Nashville in all but 2 line changes. With 15 minutes remaining, the gap was opened up to 127-46.

Again and again, Nashville's lead jammers found themselves calling off their opportunities before they could be outscored by the accelerating Steel City jammers like The Shocker, who acrobatically leapt past a 3-blocker wall and then dodged a big hit by Britches N' Hose. As time wound down, and more and more tired out Nashville skaters rested in the penalty box, 'Snot Rocket Science ole'd Showstopper in a 24-0 jam and Steel City had a huge 180-49 lead. On the final jam, Maulin Monroe found herself with a powerjam and a full two minutes to play with, and almost doubled her team's second half scoring with 20 points, ending the bout at 182-69 Steel City. -- Michael Frighten'd

#9 Texas 209, Dallas 35 -- Texas utilized a strong offense and a stingy defense to defeat Dallas 209-35 Sunday night in Austin, Texas. This bout was a warm up for the October 8th South Central WFTDA Regional tournament to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska. Both teams will be participating in that tourney, with Texas seeded #1 and Dallas seeded #4.

The Texecutioners shut out Dallas for the first five jams of the bout and took a 15-0 lead. Detroit transfer Sarah Hipel, skating in her first bout for Texas, scored the first big jam of the bout with a 9-3 score in the sixth. Olivia Shootin’ John followed it up with a 20-0 jam in then eighth jam and another 20-0 jam in the 12th jam which made the score 80-5 in favor of the home team. OSJ also closed out the half with a 4-0 jam giving the Texas Rollergirls a 114-7 lead at the halftime break.

Dallas came out of the break showing they were not about to quit. Anita Riot scored a 2-1 first jam, which was followed up by a 4-0 jam by Rink Panther. Anita Riot and Olivia Shootin John broke even in the fourth jam with a 3-3 score. Still, it was only a short reprieve from the blowout. Penalty trouble for the visiting team’s jammer allowed Luce Bandit to score an 18-5 margin in the fifth jam increasing the Texie’s lead to 138-21. A 13-2 seventh jam by Molotov M Pale increased the Texas lead to 154-23, and Dallas only scored 12 more points in the game to Texas' 55.

The leading scorers for the Texas Rollergirls were Olivia Shootin’ John with 69 points, Sarah Hipel (54), Luce Bandit (46) and Molotov M Pale (40). The top blockers for the Texies were Belle Starr, Curvette, Lucille Brawl, and Devil Grrl. Top scorers for the Dallas Derby Devils were Rink Panther with 12 points, and Roxie La Roo and Anita Riot each with 8 points. Leading blockers for the Hell Razors were Mona Bruis’R, Juicy J, Lickity Splittail, and The Shocker.

The opening exhibition bout before main bout was a demonstration match up with skaters aged 8-17. The Austin Derby Brats helped out by the Sparkle Derby Dollz of Corpus Christi gave a crowd pleasing, fun flat track derby exhibition. Participating skaters for derby fans to keep their eyes on for future derby events included jammers French Toastie and Scalpem' X, and blockers Spawna Chainsaw and Kuromi. -- Phil Arnold

Reprinted with permission from Phil Arnold's Examiner page (see original)

North Star 80, Arch Rival 75 -- In their first meeting since the 2009 North Central Regional Tournament, the Arch Rival All Stars and the North Star Supernovas tangled in a fast-paced and highly defensive bout on August 21 at the Lakeville Hasse Arena near Minneapolis, MN. Leading at the half by five, the Supernovas held on through six lead changes in the second half to close out the bout with an 80-75 win.

Defense was strong for both teams, with the Supernovas repeatedly building solid walls in front while Arch Rival excelled at blocking jammers in back. Ten minutes into the bout, ARRG took advantage of the opposing jammer being boxed and cut the Supernovas’ lead from 13-3 to 15-10. The last two jams of the half put up nine unanswered points for ARRG and left the score at 39-34 in NSRG’s favor.

The second half started with a bang for ARRG who took over the lead thanks to the NSRG jammer starting in the box. This was the start of ten minutes of lead trading until, at 40 minutes, ARRG capitalized on the NSRG jammer’s back-blocking major and gained six points to make the score 59 ARRG -- 52 NSRG.

With ten minutes remaining, NSRG’s raucous fans roared at the sight of ARRG jammer Downtown Dallis heading to the box only to watch their unopposed jammer fight hard – and fail - to stay in bounds on a fast turn. After the three scoreless jams that followed, Dallis was in the box again and NSRG jammer Katarina Hit earned 19 to reassert an 80-72 lead for NSRG. ARRG added three points in the penultimate jam, but final NSRG jammer MEDUSA made it through first and held on as lead jammer while the clock ticked down, sealing the Supernovas’ five-point upset. -- Ayn Rant

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