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: Minnesota Overrules DC, 170-33
Monday, March 07, 2011
Minnesota (ranked #2 in WFTDA’s North Central region) established their lead over the DC Rollergirls (#9 in the East) from the start. Scarmen Hellectra and Harmony Killerbruise barreled through with ease in the initial two jams for four unanswered points each. Minnesota’s MEDUSA tried for a third straight lead jam, but lost it off of a minor track cut forced in part by DC’s Soledad. ‘DUSA stayed up, skated fast and stole two points before Soledad’s jamming teammate Sookie Slaughterhouse broke the pack for the lead and called the jam. 10-0 after three jams.
Soledad’s continued presence in the pack gave DC their first score as she first delayed MNRG’s Psycho Novia long enough to get Marion Barrycuda through for the lead, then swung through the retreating Minnesota pack to give Marion targetd to pass. Marion lapped two blockers and called it.
DC’s Yankee Scandal fought for the inside track in the following jam against Harmony Killerbruise, but the veteran MNRG jammer railroaded Yankee into the backside of a waiting Juke Boxx and scored four points. That jam set into motion four straight lead jams for Minnesota as the MNRG defense set up shop in the front and back of the pack. DC used their strong blockers (particularly GunHer Down and Soledad) to go woman-on-woman, but the MNRG jammers eventually won those individual contests. With twenty to go in the first half, MNRG had gone ahead 26-2.
DC’s Marion Barrycuda took a lead jam as she wound through the back straightaway, but opposing jammer Harmony Killerbruise came charging into her, killed her momentum, and the speeding MNRG pack reabsorbed her. Marion called off the jam.
Minnesota’s fast pace started forcing errors for the DC team as they tried to match speed. Minnesota’s speedster L’exi-Cuter scored the next lead jam by barreling around the track, then stopping short just as Soledad tried to divebomb her into the cheap seats. Soledad soared past L’exi, and L’exi shot through for four points. That started another four lead jam streak for Minnesota, and the MNRG hit a sweet spot of taking the lead, scoring a few points, then calling it. Minnesota’s Psycho Novia scored a 9-0 jam as her blockers Citizen Pain and Tiki Torture sat on DC’s Sookie Slaughterhouse for a minute, but that was the exception. 50-2 Minnesota up with 10 remaining in the half.
DC got a break the following jam as their captain Free Radical scored five off of a power jam. Still, Free Radical could only score a single lapping pass due to Minnesota’s pack speed. The DC defense couldn’t shake apart the Minnesota pack to force them to engage with the lapping jammer. Yankee Scandal stole a point off a L’exi-Cuter lead jam a few jams later, but by then Minnesota was in the midst of a third lead jam streak. The difference in score was only 52 points at that moment.
Close to the end of the half, Scarmen Hellectra extended that lead to 72 with a quadruple slam as DC found themselves in a rare spot of defensive penalty trouble. However, DC recovered partially as Hoova Dayum and Soledad held back MNRG’s Killaman Jaro long enough for Yankee Scandal to score nine, and Dr SKabs put up another four points on a second DC power jam (off of a Harmony Killerbruise track cut). Minnesota held a strong 84-21 lead as they headed to the locker room.
The second half began with Harmony still in the box and Yankee Scandal jamming unopposed. Harmony emerged from penalty time, took the lead, and scored three, while Yankee scored two for DC. DC did not score for almost twenty minutes after that initial jam. That wasn’t for want of taking the lead jam; the bout’s refs gave DC’s jammers the lead signal many times, but DC couldn’t capitalize. If DC got the lead, Minnesota’s blockers would open up the pack for their own jammer, then synced up in the front and sprinted. Six times over the half, DC took the lead jam but had to call it to keep MNRG jammers from scoring.
Meanwhile, Minnesota’s jammers picked up the pace. In the sixth minute of the half, L’exi-Cuter pulled a grand slam and started her second lapping sprint. She looked back once, saw Free Radical just behind her, and shot forward for the full four points - taking it before Radical could score one. Scarmen Hellectra took a double slam the very next jam as she knocked DC jammer Yankee into MNRG’s rear-blocking Tiki Torture. Tiki and Diamond Rough held up Yankee while Scar lapped twice. MNRG 108 - DC 23 with nineteen left in the game.
L’exi scored another slam-plus on Free Radical with the assistance of MNRG Naughty Kitty’s escort of Radical out of bounds. That jam might have turned into something more due to Kitty’s subsequent abuse of the jammer, but DC’s defensive playmaker Soledad dumped the Minnesota blocker and made a hole for Free Radical. Five jams later, L’exi put up a 17-0 jam on Yankee Scandal as Naughty Kitty and Diamond Rough patrolled the front, waterfalling the DC star to distraction. MNRG up 138-23, ten minutes to go.
Sookie Slaughterhouse broke the dry spell with an excellent jam against MEDUSA, skinning two points off of the Minnesotan jammer. Free Radical scored a grand slam as Soledad and Hoova Dayum repeatedly pasted Psycho Novia. However, the DC run didn’t run long. Harmony Killerbruise recovered from a hard hit from Obitchuary, took the lead, and scored a slam. L’exi got her seventh straight lead and dropped a 13-0 jam on DC as Minnesota’s Tara Skatesov and Diamond Rough held up Sookie Slaughterhouse. 155-30 with just a few minutes left.
The bout ended with two power jams; Psycho Novia and Jax Kvaas scored a combined fifteen points on a penalized Sookie, but Sookie scored three of her own as Jax got sent to the box for back blocking. Final score: 170-33.
Minnesota never really stopped moving forward in this bout. Their jammers are showing an ability to work out the kinks of an opposing pack at speed, while high-velocity blocking from the likes of Jax Kvaas, Naughty Kitty, and Juke Boxx repeatedly kept the DC from cracking the pack. Meanwhile, DC showed more than just heart. The team is teeming with defensive players able to get in front of a jammer and stick them; their downfall was being unable to link up and work with one another at the pace that Minnesota set.
Minnesota will have their hands full next month as Indianapolis’ Tornado Sirens come to Saint Paul for the MNRG’s season finale. Be there.
Minnesota RollerGirls All-Stars:
170 points
26 Lead jams
2 Power jams
L’exi-Cuter (7-7) 57 pts
Scarmen Hellectra (3-4) 34 pts
Psycho Novia (6-9) 31 pts
Harmony Killerbruise (6-9) 22 pts
MEDUSA (3-7) 17 pts
Jax Kvaas (0-1) 5 pts
Juke Boxx (1-2) 4 pts
Killaman Jaro (0-2) 0 pts
DC Rollergirls All-Stars:
33 points
15 Lead jams
3 Power jams
Yankee Scandal (2-8) 12 pts
Free Radical (3-7) 10 pts
Sookie Slaughterhouse (4-10) 5 pts
Dr. SKabs (3-7) 4 pts
Marion Barrycuda (3-9) 2 pts
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New school defeats old in league-wide battle, 116-80
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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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