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
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Bout Recap: Whitewash: DOLLS WIN! DOLLS WIN! DOLLS WIN! Dagger Dolls 76 - Rockits 71
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
After seven years in the wilderness, the Dagger Dolls are back. They finished the hometeam season undefeated and laid claim to the coveted Golden Skate trophy. Their victory over the four-time champion Rockits may have been one of the closest bouts in MNRG championship history, yet the Dagger Dolls had the lead the entire bout.
The MNRG Championship: Dagger Dolls (3-0) v Rockits (2-1)
It began with the Rockits’ Harmony Killerbruise and Psycho Novia of the Dagger Dolls facing off at the jammer line. The Rockits formed their Red Wall as the first whistle blew, only to have the Dolls’ Tiki Torture bull-run the formation. In the ensuing chaos, both jammers fled to the front; Harmony got the lead, but called it with Psycho only a breath behind. The Dolls took the first points as Juke Boxx sped through the outside lane for two laps of the pack, stopping the jam only when opposing jammer Scarmen Hellectra escaped the Dagger Doll defense. 7-0 Dolls up after two minutes.
Dagger Doll co-captain Ova Achieva scored the next lead jam as Wonderbroad and Tiki Torture worked on delaying Harmony Killerbruise; Ova scored four against a short Rockit pack. The Doll defense skated out to start the next jam and took to one knee, signaling an instant start to the referees. The Dolls’ Killaman Jaro flew off the line and scored five more unanswered points. 16-0 at the 5th minute. The Rockits had not yet scored.
Psycho Novia went to the jammer line again, blew past a Rockit blocker in the outside lane, and took the lead and four points. Opposing jammer Vuedoo Prodigy tried taking the same path, but got snarled up by her own blocker. The Rockits’ Scarmen Hellectra staunched the bleeding the following jam with a two-point jam, stringing a Dolly blocker too far out of the pack. Harmony scored three more the following jam. However, as the veteran Rockit jammer hit the front of the pack on her lapping pass, she track cut around the final blocker as she called the jam off. The jam got called, but Harmony went to the box as well. Power jam to the Dolls at the 9th minute – Dolls up 20-5.
Killaman Jaro sped off the line to try to open up the score a bit more. Although Rockit rookie blocker Buzz Tightrear held her up on the initial pass, Doll vets Hanna Belle Lector and Tiki Torture made space for their speedster jammer. KJ scored a double slam, and Psycho followed up with another three after the power jam as her team’s defensive line held back opposing jammer Vuedoo. Juke piled on with four more points, and the Rockits – now firmly on their back foot – called for a timeout. 37-5 with seven left to play in the half.
The timeout did some good for the women in red; their defense tightened up, allowing only two more points in the half to the Dagger Dolls. Standouts Vuedoo and Buzz for the Rockits denied the Dolls’ forward progress through the pack, while others such as Honeydew Felon sent opposing jammers reeling into the inside. The denial game started forcing errors in the Doll pack. With errors came penalties, and several Dolls found themselves cooling their heels at a bad time for their team. Meantime, the Rockit jammers slowly picked their way back into the game. Over seven minutes, Killahertz, Frau Scientits, and Harmony flowed through short-packed Dagger Doll formations and scored fifteen points.
At the half, neither team showed a sizable lead. However, the Dolls’ go-ahead jam from Killaman Jaro gave the Dolls a slight lead that carried them into halftime. Dolls 39-20 Rockits.
The Dolls returned in the second half in full force. Psycho Novia took the first jam’s lead, scoring four as she floated through the defensive line. The Rockits four-walled Angel effectively on the initial straightaway in the following jam, but the Dolls drove a wedge into the wall at the turn that gave Angelfire an open lane to take the lead and score another four.
The Dolls and Rockits started lining up further back from the pivot line at the start of each jam, creating a tighter initial pack for the jammers to pass through. Harmony – able to fight through the tightest defense – took the lead and scored eight as her defenders converged on Dolly jammer Ova Achieva. Psycho and Smoke responded by finding holes in the initial formations of the Rockits, scoring four each over the next two jams. 55-28 Dolls at the 27th minute.
Scarmen turned the tide in the next jam. Jamming against Angelfire, the two speedsters fought for the outside lane. Scarmen found a path through for the lead; Angelfire lost her way and got a track cut for her troubles. The Dolls tried to speed up the pack in reaction, but the Rockits kept recycling the Dolls behind them and laying on the brakes to give Scarmen time to lap the pack. Scarmen took full advantage of her teams’ smart play and dropped a triple slam on the Dagger Dolls. 55-43…only one jam later. The Dolls took a timeout.
After a scoreless jam by Killaman Jaro and Harmony, the Dolls stepped back up. Ova grabbed a quick lead and three points as her teammates Tiki Torture and Bombs Over Bacon alternately pistoned into and sat on Frau Scientits. Killaman Jaro returned for another jam, grabbed the lead, and bled the clock for a minute without scoring a point. 58-43 with eight minutes to go.
The game’s pace sped up yet again; the Dolls could taste victory, but they still had to outpace the Rockits. Scarmen and Psycho each scored three as they raced with the pack for points. Juke took eight despite the Rockits’ Honeydew Felon felling Doll blockers left and right. However, Juke’s run ended with a track cut as the jam ended.
With five minutes remaining and Juke in the penalty box, Frau lined up alone on the jammer line. The Rockits dropped to a knee and set up on the outside to open an easy path. Frau diverted inside into a triangle of Dolls. Olga Oglethorpe, Shiver Me Kimbers, and Tiki Torture repeatedly tagged Frau, knocking her down any way they could for forty seconds. Frau had just about beaten the pack when a speeding Olga came in on the Rockit jammer once to knock her off-balance, then again to deliver her into the trackside seats at turn one. Frau finally took the lead, but the Dolls’ defense had bled the power jam dry for the full minute. No score.
Psycho Novia pulled another three for her Dolls. At that point, the clock showed two minutes left with the Rockits behind by twenty-six. It looked all over when Juke Boxx grabbed a lightning-fast lead jam, but a major out-of-bounds blocking penalty sent Juke to the box. The Dolls turned on the speed, but Harmony outpaced them for eleven points. However, Harmony was not lead, and the jam clock and the game clock were almost in lock step. Dolls up 71-56.
No sooner had the refs whistled for the end of the jam did the Rockits bench coach Commander Nix jump up and call time. With .9 seconds remaining, the clock stopped and the Rockits took their last timeout. Psycho lined up against Frau for the last jam, and the Doll defense lined up only a yard in front of Frau to attempt to keep her from getting a flying start. No luck; Frau jinked to the inside, then circled around the entire pack in a flash to earn the lead jam. Psycho found her own way through half a lap later. Frau grabbed ten initial points to Psycho’s five when late in the jam, Psycho swerved around a Rockit and two of her own players out of bounds, then re-entered the track. The referees called track cut, sending Psycho to the box…but the Dolls’ rapid pace and ability to hold Frau back at speed in the final seconds kept the Rockits from scoring more than five points. The final whistle blew, and the Dolls took the victory.
FINAL: Dagger Dolls 76 - Rockits 71
Dagger Dolls—76 points
18 Lead Jams
1 Power Jam
14 Jam Wins
Psycho Novia - 5-9, 25 pts
Juke Boxx - 4-5, 19 pts
Killaman Jaro - 3-6, 19 pts
Ova Achieva - 3-6, 7 pts
Angelfire - 2-4, 4 pts
Naughty Kitty - 1-1, 2 pts
Shiver Me Kimbers - 0-1, 0 pts
Rockits—71 points
12 Lead Jams
4 Power Jams
12 Jam Wins
Harmony Killerbruise - 6-13, 28 pts
Frau Scientits - 4-6, 20 pts
Scarmen Hellectra - 3-7, 19 pts
808 Killahertz - 1-3, 4 pts
LXIX Vuedoo Prodigy - 0-2, 0pts
281 Patently Offensive - 0-1, 0pts
Pizza Luce player of the game - Killaman Jaro
Derby 4 All Game-changer of the game - Olga Oglethorpe
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Hook Line and Sink Her Recaplet: MNRG takes out Old Capitol, Miss Quitos overcome the Loon-a-Ticks
February 04, 2012
MNRG All-Stars 362 - 58 OCCRG, Miss Quitos 96 - 67 Loon-a-Ticks
