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 Special Ops took on the Oklahoma Victory Dolls
 Harassiz Mine celebrates after a jam. In the second game of the night, four leagues would divide up into two teams. Players from the East Texas Bombers, Piney Woods Roller Derby, Assassination City Roller Derby, and the Oklahoma Victory Dolls would divide up into the White/Victory squad and the Black/Death squad. A balance offensive attack would help the White team pull off an 88-82 victory in a very competitive match. Birthday girl Aries Fury of the East Texas Bombers would score 12 points in her first two jams of the night, and the Black team would establish a 14-9 lead after four jams. Princess Panic from Oklahoma would score five points in the eighth jam of the first half, and the hite team would take their first lead of the night-28-27. Throw in a 13-point jam for Princess Panic in the 10th jam, and the team in white would take a 49-38 lead at half time. Aries Fury would exploded out of the halftime break in the first jam of the second half with a ten point jam, and suddenly the bout arrowed down to a one point game, which would occur several times in the half. In the seventh jam of the half, Aries Fury would score 12 points while Princess Panic was scoring seven points. Then Scrappy Doo from the East Texas/Piney Woods group for the Black team would follow up with a four point to get the score to 73-72 in favor of the White squad. Elle Smash from East Texas would pull the crucial jam of the game with a 9-0 run in the 9th jam of the final period for the White team Aries Fury would counter with a 4-0 jam with just a few minutes left in the game to narrow the gap to six points, but the game would end on a 6-6 jam and the White's team victory would be final at 88-82. Leading scorers for the white team were Elle Smash of East Texas with 36 points, Princess Panic with 34 points, and Kay-O of East Texas with 18 points. Leading blockers for the White/Victory team was Lock- N-Load Lola from Oklahoma, and Ima Hazzard from Assassination City. Aries Fury was the top scorer for the game and the Black/Death team with 49 points. Dita Von Casualties from Oklahoma would score 17 points, and Scrappy Doo from Piney Woods would add 10 points for the team in black. Top blockers included Crash McQueen of Piney Woods and Critical Sass. It should be mentioned that some skaters were in both games with Princess Panic jamming and scoring in 100 minutes worth of bouts. And Mona Bruiser also pulled a double, and was probably the top blocker of the night. And these were only two of the skaters who skated in the 60-minute opening bout, and in the 40-minute exhibition bout. I heard comments from a couple of the skaters who skated in the first bout that they wished they had also skated in the second bout." Phil Arnold, Austin, Texas
Phil Arnold is the moderator of the Yahoo Group, Roller Derby Is Sport . |
In the first game, Assassination City's Special Ops would shut Oklahoma ten out of 17 jams in the thirty minute first half. But the key jam of the bout would be the 8th jam of the first half. Herassiz Mine would break out of the pack as lead jammer, and the team from Dallas would keep the opposing jammer in the pack and would outscore the team from Oak City 15-0 for that jam. The score would move up to 27-6, and the team in black would expand their advantage to 55-21 at half time.
