2011-2012 Season Schedule
Get ready for a season eight with the Minnesota RollerGirls - Minnesota’s original roller derby league.The fall bouts will feature your favorite four home teams and the winter/spring months will feature the All-Star bouts.
Saturday, October 15
Saturday, November 19
Saturday, December 17
Saturday, January 21 (home team championship)
Saturday, February 4
Saturday, February 18 with Minnesota Swarm
Saturday, March 3
Saturday, March 31
Saturday, June 16
News
Bout Recap: Hook, Line, and Sink Her: Minnesota All-Stars rush past Old Capitol City, 362-58
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The Minnesota RollerGirls All-Stars took on and took out the Old Capitol City Roller Girls of Iowa City, IA last Saturday night. The OCCRG came to play their first-ever sanctioned bout as a member of the WFTDA in Saint Paul against a team who had been both instructors and inspiration. Minnesota put them through their paces, won by an overwhelming 362-58 but also welcomed Iowa City into the ranks of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association.
MNRG All-Stars vs The Old Capitol City Roller Girls
Minnesota came into this bout as the clear favorite. With four games of their home season already under their belts and a top-eight finish at the WFTDA Championships in November, the All-Stars were eager to reform into the North Central juggernaut and begin the new season in earnest.
The MNRG All-Stars emerged from the back to “Thus Spake Zarathustra” (the Monolith theme from 2001 – OCCRG used “Eye of the Tiger” as their intro music) and - following their introduction to the cheering crowd – sped to the jammer line and took a knee in front of the opposing jammer. The refs called ‘NO PACK’ and blew the jammer whistle, forcing Old Cap jammer Ophelia Fracture to push herself through an MNRG picket line. Minnesota jammer Lexi-Cuter slid through her own pack, but Ophelia got impatient in her run through the pack and got called for a track cut. L’exi initially struggled on the opening pass, but scored 18 on the power jam as her supporting blockers glommed onto the OCCRG pack.
Minnesota used the jammer-line knee tactic to their advantage throughout both halves of the game. Lining up inches in front of the opposing team and taking a knee meant that the jammers were instantly in play. However, it also means that the jammer standing there with four opposing blockers in her face loses her explosive speed off of the line and has to break through the pack at a skating walk or a jog – or that they have to beat the Minnesota pack’s lateral movement.
In the opening ten minutes, Minnesota went up 84-7. 58 of those points were scored on OCCRG jammer penalties, including a 26-point power jam by an unstoppable MEDUSA. The jammer line start and blocking to the outside of the track also pushed Old Cap’s jammers to distraction, resulting in those penalty trips.
That said, two Old Cap jammers - Left 4 Deadwards and GladI8Her - found daylight as OCCRG blockers dredged lanes open for their players. The two combined to score seven in the opening three jams, though GladI8Her’s game was cut short after getting hit by a teammate’s knee to the back of her head.
Left 4 Deadwards and the Old Cap pack gave the visitors their first big play fifteen minutes into the first half. OCCRG blockers Bat R Up, Ima Golddiggah, Jane Bang, and Toxic Sugar hooked into Harmony Killerbruise and would not let go while Deadwards scored nine.
The problem for Old Cap was not that they couldn’t claim a lead jam; instead, they could not contain Minnesota’s jammers long enough to string together lap after lap of grand slams. Minnesota’s relentless blockers had no such problem, recycling jammers to the back of the pack repeatedly in minute-long assaults. Six of Minnesota’s jammers scored more than fifteen points in single jams over the first half, and ‘Sota pulled that off by repeatedly using blockers to isolate the OCCRG defenders in the pack so that they could not work together.
OCCRG scored three more times in the half as Ophelia Fracture and Left 4 Deadwards took lead and sped around the track. However, both went to the penalty box, and both Venus Thightrap and Shiva Shank’n converted their power jams for a combined 37 points. At the half, Minnesota held a commanding lead of 192-33 against Iowa City.
Ophelia and Deadwards scored the first two lead jams of the second half as the OCCRG pack came out of the locker rooms. Ophelia scored one and Deadwards scored six on a power jam as the MNRG’s L’exi-Cuter went to the box on a back block. However, Deadwards also scored two minor track cuts and got sent to the box; that released L’exi-Cuter to score eight for Minnesota as Diamond Rough and the MNRG pack shoveled up and trapped Old Cap’s defenders in the shoulders of the track. Deadwards returned to score six more out of the box in the next jam against MEDUSA; ‘DUSA took fourteen. At the 35th minute, Minnesota 216 – 46 OCCRG.
Minnesota awoke from their slumber and took the next six leads, scoring 100 unanswered points over the course of twelve minutes. Cycling through their six-deep jammer rotation, Minnesota took firm hold of the game by opening wide paths for Psycho Novia, MEDUSA, L’exi, Harmony, Juke Boxx, and Ova Acheiva to barrel through. Minnesota up 316-46.
The OCCRG’s defense found themselves in the back of the pack with no ability to use their own blockers to crack through the dense MNRG four-walls. They also had some difficulty scrambling Vuedoo Prodigy, Diamond, and Juke’s ability to knock jammers out, run to the back of the pack, and tag up with an additional Minnesota blocker to start the defensive attack anew.
OCCRG’s Triple D Zaster grabbed a lead and a point in the 47th minute, but the final push from Iowa City’s finest wouldn’t come until five minutes later when Minnesota‘s blockers began to accumulate penalties. Old Cap’s jammers scored five straight lead jams as short packs of MNRG blockers found that couldn’t hold back the tide of young Iowans. BAT R UP – who played almost three of every five jams for Old Cap – dropped Minnesota jammers left and right. Still, OCCRG accumulated only eleven points over those jams. MNRG’s Scarmen Hellectra finished the game well for her team, scoring a double slam and taking her team more than three hundred points past Old Capitol City. FINAL: Minnesota 362 – 58 OCCRG.
With that score, Minnesota blew away their previous high mark (previously against Dallas’ Assassination City 264-20 in 2010). 304 points is also the 10th-largest gap in recorded WFTDA history, but the truth of the matter is that this was a hard-hitting, brilliant game from one of the oldest and one of the newest leagues in the WFTDA.
MNRG All Stars—362 Points
18 Lead Jams
25 Jam Wins
10 Power Jams
MEDUSA - 4-6, 75 pts
L’exi-cuter - 4-6, 52 pts
Venus Thightrap - 0-3, 48 pts
Ova Achieva - 2-6, 47 pts
Psycho Novia - 3-3, 41 pts
Harmony Killerbruise - 1-5, 40 pts
Juke Boxx - 2-2, 24 pts
ShivaShankn - 2-2, 22 pts
Scarmen Hellectra - 0-2, 13 pts
Old Capitol City Roller Girls—58 Points
15 Lead Jams
7 Jam Wins
3 Power Jams
Left 4 Deadwards - 6-11, 35 pts
Ophelia Fracture - 5-9, 15 pts
Triple D Zaster - 3-6, 5 pts
Gladi8Her - 0-2, 3 pts
Outlaw Jessie Pains - 1-2, 0 pts
Jenna JamISon - 0-4, 0 pts
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March 31, 2012
The younger skaters take one back on the Vets…and Minnesota makes it ten in a row on the Roy track.
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March 29, 2012
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