Bout #2! Recap.
The lovely Ballistic Miss L with Celia Casket doing our live bout-cast.
Clam Jammer in the pack
We knew very little going into this bout about the other team. Bitches Bruze tried to give us a little summary from what she has seen of them in the past season. It looked like they were coming into the bout with just as many rookies as we had. Bonus for us! We were told that their star jammer (Star Slayer) liked to jump the apex so we were hugging the inside lines with all we had. .....she took the outside every time. Some of the few times they took the inside, our jammer drafted on her but when we went to take out their jammer....ours got squished in the process.
Chickadee Struction jamming.
At the half, our guys put on a 15 minute mini scrimmage. I love watching them play. They have a completely different dynamic on the track than the girls do.
Dr. Spankenstein jamming around the pack.
We do a fund raiser during every bout. We have a wheel toss and all the money gathered for it goes to a different charity each time. This time we heard of a fellow roller girl who was the victim of domestic violence. She has no insurance, and will be out of work for quite some time as she has had to have both eye sockets and her nose reconstructed. We donated the money to her this time.
The sign we posted to let everyone know about Lori and our donation.
Gnome Ercy coming around the outside.
HALF TIME CAPTAINS LECTURE******
I have learned to love this part of the game. What are we doing wrong? What are they screwing up on that we can take advantage of? How are we going to regroup to fix it and dominate the last half.
Trample Steelskin trying to stop the jammer at the back of the pack.
During the second half, Chicadee Struction went down after getting a kick in the head and we knew she was out for the rest of the bout. Wanda Hurtu and Clam Jammer had been doing great so far but now we would also bring in Gnome Ercy and Coors Lightening to jam a few.
Last half was a huge success. We made walls, we perfected cycling techniques, leaned on people out of bounds and made every hit land with a purpose. We had a much better visual on where the jammers were all the time during the second half and we were able to hold theirs back and get ours through to make up some of those points.
That's me taking down their jammer. I don't know how I spun her around...but I did :)
In the end it just wasn't enough but we got within a 40 point spread. Way better than it could have been.
As I finish this up, we are in Fort Wayne Indiana getting ready to play in a tournament hosted by the Fort Wayne Roller Girls called Spring Roll. Our guys and ladies teams are here and I am as about as excited as one can get. Plus I was able to find this GREAT Mexican restaurant called Cebollas just a few minutes away from the hotel so I got to load up on some chile rellenos and rice and beans. Now I am going to go see if I can borrow some red booty shorts froma teammate for tomorrow in case we get to wear our black uniforms.
Wish us luck!
