JSRG Beatdown vs Nickel City
Knockouts
Game number
two of the Jersey Shore Roller Girls first ever double header pits the JSRG
Beatdown up against the Nickel City Knockouts from Buffalo, NY. Hosted by JSRG at the Convention Hall in
Asbury Park, the Beatdown put up a good fight against the Knockouts, but the
visiting teams’ ability to control the pack would prove to be too much for the
Beatdown, who would ultimately lose the game with a score of 82 to NY’s 228.
Jam 1 gets off
to a slow start, NY’s Abercrombie & Fists takes the lead over JSRG’s Cool
Mo T. She zooms up the middle of the
pack, scores 4 points and ends the jam
(but Mo is able to score 1 point before the final whistle.) Now Principal Rooney takes the star for JSRG,
and NY puts Crazy Legs up against her.
NY picks off the JSRG blockers, stringing out the pack. Legs takes the lead as Ivana LeiHerOut knocks
Rooney out of bounds, recycling her back into the pack. As Legs laps her for a grand slam, Rooney
takes another huge hit from Ivana. Rooney
finally breaks free, and Legs ends the jam, putting 15 points on the board for
her team (to JSRG’s 0.)
Jam 3 also
starts slowly, but jammer, Toots McGee hits the pack quickly, gets lead, scores
5 points and calls the jam off before JSRG’s Dezdemona Lott can break through
for her initial pass. Next, Mo is up again for JSRG, but gets caught up
behind Ivana and Ruby Revenge who work together to hit Mo out and recycle,
forcing her to fall back in behind them.
NY’s jammer, Librawlian, picks up 19 points for her team, and calls the
jam off as Bash N. Onya helps her jammer to finally break free from the
pack. Jam 5 and 6 are more of the same,
in the visiting teams favor.
Then, jam 7
sees Mo awarded lead jammer status, and she cuts around the outside of the
pack, while her captain, Jack & Choke, holds back NY jammer, Legs. Mo scores 2 points for JSRG, takes a huge hit
from Stormie Weather, and calls the jam off from the ground (Legs scores 1
point.)
Next on the
jam line for JSRG, is rookie Heartless Backstab Her. Librawlian is back on the jam line, and
despite the fact that she gets trapped behind Obi-wan Kenosebleed, Bash, and
co-captain Shirley B. Brutal for the better part of a lap, she still manages to
take lead jammer, with Heartless right behind her. Then Fists gets the lead over Dez, scoring
and calling the jam quickly off. Now
with a score of 62-3 in NY’s favor, Rooney takes the jam line for JSRG. Rooney gets past Ivana on the inside line,
and wins lead jammer, while NY jammer, Legs, is sent to the box on a major
track cut. Rooney earns a grand slam,
flying through the pack unopposed, then JSRG forms a pace line to control the pack speed and force the
opposition out of play. Rooney
eventually earns 16 points for her team, before calling the jam off.
In jam 11, Mo
takes the jam line un-opposed. JSRG
forces the whistle, Mo takes an assist from Heartless, and breaks thought the
pack as Legs re-enters the track. Mo
makes a scoring pass and calls off the jam, but Legs scores 3 points to Mo’s 4.
Rooney takes
the jam line in jam 12, and finds herself in the midst of another huge scoring
opportunity as NY jammer, Toots McGee,
fouls and is sent to the box.
Despite suffering some major hits, Rooney earns another grand slam for
her team, and the jam expires only after Rooney puts 12 points on the board for
the Beatdown (to NY’s 5.) Next, NY
stalls and allows the clock to wind down, releasing their jammer from the box,
and back into play, but not before the JSRG jammer, Dez, earns lead jammer status. Legs
flies through the pack, while Dez gets hung up by the NY blockers, and
she is forced to call off the jam.
The next three
jams of the evening fall in the visiting teams favor, as they consistently earn
lead jammer status, control the pack speed to wind out the clock, and score,
while preventing the BEatdown jammers from scoring. Jams 16, 17, and 18 are more of the same, the
NY jammers zip through the strung out packs of blockers, while the JSRG jammers
get caught up, and are unable to score. In fact, it is not until the last jam of the
first half that JSRG is allowed to add any points to the scoreboard. In the last moments of the first half of game
2, the Librawlian takes the outside line and breaks first, but she does not
earn lead. Mo, the JSRG jammer, can not
get passed Ruby Revenge or Sasa Skank, and Librawlian laps her. Finally Mo breaks free, takes a lap and
scores, but in her attempt to contain the other jammer she fouls and is sent to
the box. Time expires, and the first
half of game 2 ends with a score of 134 to 40 in NY’s favor.
Jam 1 of the
second half kicks off with a power jam for Nickel City. Cool Mo T sits in the box while the
Librawlian takes the line, once again, for NY.
Librawlian finds a hole in a three woman wall, and flies past the JSRG
defense, as her own teammates catch Shirley, and use her as a goat, forcing the
opposition out of play. Mo is finally
released from the box, and the Librawlian calls off the jam, adding 14 points
to her team’s score.
In jam 2, Jack is able to help her jammer,
Boston Whale Her, by booty blocking the opposition, NY’s Abercrombie. Despite taking a big hit, Boston is able to
score 3 points for JSRG as Jack knocks Abercrombie out of bounds. Jam 3, 4, and 5 go to NY, who again are adept
at controlling the pack speed, winning lead jammer status, holding back the
opposing jammer as their own jammer scores, and then quickly ending the jam
before JSRG can put points up on the board.
Now Rooney
wears the star, again NY stalls to run
out the clock, releasing their fourth blocker from the penalty box, but Rooney
break through for the lead! NY jammer, McGee is close on her tail, but Stoli
Slammer takes her out at the back of the pack while her own jammer, Rooney,
scores 4 points and ends the jam. In jam
6, the Librawlian takes the lead, while
JSRG jammer, Mo gets hung up behind co-captain SuperNova, and Stormie. The Librawlian fouls, and is sent to the box,
but Mo gets called on a major back block, and is quickly sent to the box behind
her. Now the Librawlian is released, and
attempts to jump the apex, but misses and gets sent back to the box, releasing
Mo. Mo is able to score 3 points (to
NY’s 6) before time expires and the jam ends.
With 19:32
left in the second half, and trailing by 127 points, JSRG fields jammer, Dez,
for an opportunity at a power jam.
Despite the best effort of NY captain, Lamb Chop, Dez pulls off a grand
slam, with some help from her teammate Nikki Sixx Ft Under (who will go on to
win MVP for this game.) Jam 9 and 10 go
to NY, their jammers each earning grand slams, while their blockers hold back
the JSRG jammers. JSRG goes into jam 11
with two blockers in the penalty box, and NY captain, Lamb Chop, does some
serious damage to the remaining JSRG blockers.
The Librawlian flies through the pack, and JSRG jammer, Dez, is hung up
until her teammate Obi clears the way for her.
Dez is sent out on a major track cut, as the Librawlian continues to
rack up the points, while her teammates form a wall, and goat JSRG blocker,
Heartless, slowing the pack speed. Dez
is finally released back onto the track, and manages to score 4 quick points
(to the Librawlian’s 14) as the jam ends.
Jams 11 and
12, again, see points awarded to NY, while the formidable NY blockers hold the Beatdown
jammers back, and prevent them from scoring.
Then Rooney take the jam line, up against NY’s Lamb Chop. Chop breaks first but is sent to the box on a
track cut, so Rooney finds herself in a power jam situation, once again. Ivana forces Rooney out of bounds, and as she
recycles through the pack, NY forms a wall.
JSRG, in an attempt to control the pack speed and force the opposition
out of play, forms a pace line on the outside line. Rooney still manages to score 10 points,
before Chop re-enters, hits the pack hard, flies into the infield, and takes
out a ref. She scores 1 point to
Rooney’s 10, and the jam clock expires and the jam ends, bringing the score to
220-76, in NY’s favor.
Next, with
5:41 left on the clock, JSRG jammer, Dez, takes the lead. She gets caught up on her scoring pass, but
earns 2 points, while Spicy Pierogi passes her and earns 5 before Dez can call
off the jam. In the third to last jam
of the evening, JSRG fields jammer, Boston, while NY will play McGee. McGee makes a play for Boston right off the
line, but takes herself out instead.
Boston zips through the pack, and earns lead, but McGee is close behind
her. A huge hit from a JSRG blocker
finally takes McGee down, and Boston
scores as McGee is sent to the box. Boston
calls off the jam, and the 16th jam of the second half will start as
a power jam for JSRG.
Rooney wears the star, but is unable to break
through the pack, and the NY jammer, McGee, is released from the box, flies
through the pack, earns lead jam, and ends the jam before Rooney can score.
Finally, with a 1:09 left on the clock,
newcomer Heartless, bravely wears the
star for her team. NY jammer,
SuperNova, is sent to the box for a
major false start, but Librawlian, Ivana, and Midnyt Maniac work together to
hold Heartless, and hit her, recycling around and knocking into her again and
again. Mo and Jack do their best to free
their jammer, but to no avail, and the final jam of the night ends with no
points scored by either jammer.
Game 2 ends
with a score of 228-82, in Nickel City’s favor.
Their superior control of the pack proved too much for the Beatdown to
handle, despite their jammers best efforts, and some excellent offense on their
part. Nickel City goes back to Buffalo
with a win, but the Beatdown put up a valiant fight, and earned valuable
experience.
