On Saturday, the 16th ranked Boston Massacre will host 26th ranked Cincinnati Rollergirls at the Shriner’s Auditorium in Wilmington, MA. Cincinnati will be looking for their 4th win this season, but Boston will be looking to extend their 2-0 winning streak.

Cincinnati has started off the season strong, with wins over Fort Wayne, Naptown, and Ohio and a recent win over Derby City in an exhibition game. Notably, the Naptown game set a new record for the lowest total score ever in a WFTDA-regulation bout — Cincinnati won 59-32. Cincinnati’s roster features several versatile players including Hannah Barbaric and Roseanne Scarr who are noted for being excellent blockers as well as fast jammers. CRG will undoubtedly impress the Boston crowd with their speed, agility, and maneuverability.

This will be the Boston Massacre’s third all-star game of the season, with previous wins a 119-69 over then-unranked ranked Dominion (now on the board at in the #20 spot) and a 116-49 exhibition bout win over the Bronx Gridlock, the Gotham Girls’ reigning local champions. With several pack weapons, the Boston Massacre is firing in good rhythm and their blocking teamwork and pack communication are on par to make this a strong match-up.

The Cincinnati Rollergirls will be fielding a full roster of 14 as will the Boston Massacre. Missing from the Massacre line-up will be Anna Wrecks’ya and Miss Mary Smack, who will be replaced by Harlot Fevah and Sugar Hits. This is sure to be an exciting game with both strong offensive and defensive play. Boston’s “JV” squad, the Boston B-Party, opens the action with a face off against the currently unranked all-star team from the Connecticut Rollergirls (correction: not the all-star team, a combination of all-stars and local CT players.)

For Cincinnati fans not able to travel to Beantown, the bout will be shown via a live feed on the big screen TV at the Underground at the Know Theater at 1120 Jackson St. in Over-the-Rhine.

The Cincinnati Rollergirls will next skate at the Cincinnati Gardens on Saturday, May 17 at 7:00 p.m. against the 9th ranked Philly Roller Girls. The bout is a double-header, with the Black Sheep dueling Philly’s Liberty Belles and the Cincinnati Rollergirls “B” team, the Silent Lambs, skating against the Black-n-Bluegrass Girls from Northern Kentucky.

The Boston Derby Dames’ next bout wraps up their local season as the defending champion Wicked Pissahs take on the Cosmonaughties for the Season Two title on June 14. This rematch of Season One’s championship is sure to be a screamer, with the Cosmos gunning for a different outcome this time around.

Both leagues will be attending the East Coast Derby Extravaganza on June 21 and 22 in Philly. Cincinnati will be taking on Grand Raggidy (23) and Texas (4). The Boston Massacre will be playing Houston (24) and Rocky Mountain (14), who just handily defeated Boston’s closely matched sister league, the 15th-ranked Providence Roller Girls, in a 137-9 blowout in Denver.

Additional reporting: Harley Quinn

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BOSTON, MA — On Saturday evening, the Charm City league team Night Terrors rolled into Boston, fast and gothic like their Tim Burton theme intro music, to take on BDD champion Wicked Pissahs in a 40-minute exhibition bout. To the delight of the 1,250 fans packing the Shriner’s Hall, the Terrors fell to the Pissahs’ speedy jammers and devastating control of the inside lines.

YouTube: Highlight reel

The Terrors are league champions as well, but were skating as a substantially reformulated team, missing the powerful jammer Joy Collision (who bench-coached the game with Dolly Rocket) and the speedy Dr. SKabs from last season’s champion team, and featuring several skaters in their first bout. The Pissahs consistently stumped the Terrors, with a tenacious and flexible frontline that never let a Terrors jammer go without getting several hard shots in, and with the frequent and effective use of teammates as projectiles.

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In a battle of local champions, Charm City’s Night Terrors head up to Boston for a showdown with Boston’s local Wicked Pissahs. The Night Terrors have triumphed in both Baltimore home seasons, while the Pissahs have won the first BDD home championship and are already guaranteed a slot in next month’s Boston championship.

The Terrors recently pulled off a big interleague victory when they took out Philly’s local champs, the Philthy Britches, in February, but this Terrors roster will be quite a bit different from that one. The Terrors will be trying out their new 2008 roster, which does not include two of their most effective veterans — MVP Joy Collision (who has moved to local team Mobtown Mods) or Dr. Skabs (who played her last game for Charm City in their most recent interleague win over Rocky Mountain.) This crew features two rookies playing in their first regulation bout — Minnie Piledriver and Juicy Brute — along with Terrors vets Fatal Attraction and Blind Banshee, both coming off injuries that have kept them sidelined them since last summer. Finally, ex-Junkyard Dolls Radar Love will be playing her first game as a Night Terror since transferring to the team in the 2008 restructuring. Three Terrors — Cheeta Torpeda, Mibbs Breakin’ Ribs, and Frenzy Lohan — have played in Boston’s Shriners’ Auditorium before, having been on the all-star roster in the nail-biting 112-110 Boston win that concluded CCRG’s first interleague season in April 2007.

Over on the Pissah’s side, the roster will include five skaters who played in the Boston all-star team’s recent impressive 116-49 dismissal of Gotham’s local champs, the Bronx Gridlock — Shelby Shattered, Miss Mary Smack, Krush Puppy, Harley Quinn, and Triple Deck-her. Deck-Her and Quinn excel at the jammer position, and Shelby Shattered has earned a reputation as a very dangerous blocker in a team that excels at replacement blocking and re-engagement. The new version of the Terrors will have to come together very quickly if they want to earn a win against the current rulers of the Boston Derby Dames.

UPDATE: The Pissahs defend their home turf, knocking off the visiting Terrors 100-61.

Additional reporting: Harley Quinn, Sister Midnight

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BOSTON, MA — With their regular season now finished and playoffs a month away, the Boston Derby Dames briefly broke from league play this past Saturday, March 8, to pit their skills against two rival Northeast leagues. The All-Star Boston Massacre split its squad for a derby doubleheader, hosting the Maine Port Authorities and the Bronx Gridlock in two inter-league exhibition bouts. A crowd of 1,426 braved heavy downpours and overzealous traffic cops on their way to Shriners Auditorium, and their perseverance was rewarded with a double dip of hard-hitting action. Looking lovely in their sleek new uniforms (which seamlessly combine the influences of the Revolutionary War, the Autobots, and cornflowers), the Massacre tallied back-to-back wins, outpacing the Port Authorities 81-31 and downing the Gridlock by a score of 116-49.

In the main event, the Massacre faced the powerhouse Bronx Gridlock, reigning champions of New York City’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby. Although the Gridlock is out of season, having won their championship back in November, their talent is undeniable and they boast a number of skaters who dominated the 2007 WFTDA Eastern Regionals with GGRD’s all-star team and eventually placed 5th in the nation in September. With this record, the Massacre knew they’d have their hands full.

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Boston fans get a treat this coming Saturday, as their hometown Boston Massacre all-star team takes on Gotham Girls’ reigning local champions, the Bronx Gridlock, in a special exhibition bout.

The Gridlock won the 2007 GGRD season with a perfect 4-0 record, and their roster features 5 members of the travel team that smoked the competition at 2007’s Eastern Regional tournament — defensive specialists Ginger Snap and Kandy Kakes, the alarmingly swift Beatrix Slaughter, versatile Brigitte Barhot and fearsome blocker Beyonsláy. On the other hand, the cabbies will only be bringing 10 players out for this game, which might make endurance a factor. Notably, the Bronx is without the other half of their signature jammer duo, as Bonnie Thunders is currently overseas (DNN sources report that this has something to do with large cats in China.)

This will be Boston’s first bout as an all-star team since September of 2007, when they swamped #22 Dominion, 119-69. While stalwarts Sarah Doom, Maura Buse, Claire D. Way and Lois Carmen Denominator are back for more, it’ll be the Massacre’s first bout without longtime captain Ivana Clobber — and their first with a couple of transplanted skaters, Baby Fighterfly (ex-Providence) and Harley Quinn (ex-DC.) Boston just barely missed advancing past the first round of 2007’s Eastern Regional, edged in an overtime thriller by Detroit … and they’re no doubt looking to make this the first step on a road they hope will take them a little bit further in 2008.

Boston will be fielding a full roster of 14 for the bout, but half of those 14 (Anna Wrecks’ya, Claire D. Way. Sarah Doom, Miss Mary Smack, Harley Quinn, Baby Fighterfly, and Cookie Push) will be playing in a 30 minute opening mini-bout as a slightly different Massacre team takes on Maine Roller Derby (no roster available at press time), so it should be interesting to see if the Massacre’s slightly longer night will balance out their advantage in numbers.

Additional reporting: Hambone, Harley Quinn

UPDATE: Boston takes it to the short-staffed Gridlock, going up 48-28 by halftime and rolling to a solid 116-49 victory. Boston also claims the win in the 30 minute opener, triumphing over Maine by a final of 81 to 31. Recaps to come.

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Cambridge Community Television has put together a very impressive half-hour documentary on the Boston Derby Dames, featuring appearances by league founders Ivana Clobber (who has since moved to Kansas City) and Sarah Doom, along with skaters Maura Buse, Harlot Fevah, Shelby Shattered, Triple Deck-Her, Dreadnought, Xena Paradox and others … and even better, you can view the whole thing online!

As always, DNN stands up and cheers whenever media coverage of derby goes pleasingly in-depth instead of painfully boilerplate, so don’t be shy about stopping by CCT’s site and leaving a comment to congratulate them on a job very well done.

BOSTON, MA — It’s Valentine season in Derbyland, and thoughts of love and lust are everywhere. But for two hours this past Saturday, February 9th, warm, fuzzy feelings gave way to cold-blooded competitiveness when the Wicked Pissahs and Cosmonaughties mixed it up in the final regular season bout for the Boston Derby Dames. A record crowd of over 1,600 fans piled in to Shriner’s Auditorium, packing the stands and arena floor to capacity in anticipation of derby fireworks. Never a group to disappoint, the teams delivered an adrenaline-fueled, high-octane facemelter that evidenced the long hours of hard work these women invest in their sport. And although the Pissahs ultimately won by a healthy margin, 103-64, the story runs deeper than the score; indeed, the journey of this bout was far more significant than its destination.

Despite their loss, Saturday was a hugely important bout for the Cosmonaughties because it established their fearlessness and re-infused them with the necessary confidence for playoffs. Having witnessed the enormous firepower of the Pissahs in the season opener against the Nutcrackers (the Pissahs took that match 142 to 41), the Cosmos could easily have entered this bout as an anxious and humbled squad, but they did no such thing. From the first whistle, their intensity level signaled an indifference to the Pissahs’ loaded resume and an eagerness to play the role of giant killers.

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