Bout recap: Knoxville 78, Nashville 77
Posted by Master Bates on 20th February 2008
NASHVILLE, TN — Saturday, February 16th wasn’t your run-of-the-mill weekend day in the Tennessee State Fairgrounds Sports Arena. The Hard Knox Rollergirls of Knoxville came to town to take on Nashville’s very own Music City Rhythm and Bruisers in the “Mardi Brawl,” and both teams brought their A-game to what would prove to be their closest scoring match-up yet. In their two previous meetings, Knoxville took the “Capital Punishment” bout in May of last year 111 to 81 and Nashville won at the “Honky Tonk Stomp” in July by a margin of 78 to 76. The final score of this one would be strikingly similar to their last meeting, but it was Knoxville on top at the final whistle, squeaking out a 78-77 win over the home team.
After DJ Fat Andy warmed everyone up with his mash-ups of some of the Rhythm and Bruisers’ favorite tunes, and Halfbrass led the Arena in their rendition of the National Anthem, things got under way. Unfortunately Nashville was plagued by penalties right off the bat when an overzealous Molotov M. Pale succeeded in calling off the first jam at a minute and 24 seconds without actually having won lead jammer status. An unbalanced amount of penalties would cost Nashville dearly in the jams to come.
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