April 24 bout recap! #fb

It was the non-stop excitement of roller derby that fans have come to expect from the Jersey Shore Roller Girls!


The sold-out home opener at the Asbury Park Convention Center on April 24, 2010 featured the 2009 league champs Murder Beach Militia against the Anchor Assassins, a team looking to make history with their first win.

The Anchors’ roster featured many of the returning powerhouses from 2009, a season where AA lost games by extremely narrow margin; plus for the April 24 bout new Anchors Kimbo Slice-Her and Bettie Clock’r joined their team mates to stake a claim against the 2009 season league champs, the Murder Beach Militia.

MBM’s roster is nearly identical to last season, with Black Eye Betty and Ricin Beans taking the helm as captain and co-captain, respectively. Both teams skated hard right through the last jam. But in the end it was Murder Beach Militia winning the bout by 26 points with a final score of 119 to 93.

Murder Beach Militia grabbed hold of the lead early and never let go. Keeping that lead however was not without a fight as Anchor Assassins gave it their all and more for every jam. Captain Ciri L. Killer and Co-Captain Belle Maul Her ran a tight ship that chipped away at the MBM lead, hoping to tie it up. But at one point, that deficit in the first half stretched to more than 40 points, thanks to MBM regularly securing lead jammer status and power jams.

Jamming for Murder Beach Militia: Ricin Beans, M8T, and Push Pop, each of whom secured lead jammer status with regularity. Hot on their heels (or wheels) were Anchor Assassin jammers Dodge AWOL, Joy Kill Her, Kimbo Slice-Her, Bettie Clock’r and Ciri L. Killer. In the first half, it wasn’t enough to stop power jams by Push Popp, who racked up 15 points in the seventh jam of the evening. Same with Ricin Beans, who scored 14 points in one jam in the first half. The half ended, however, with Anchors putting a stop to the MBM scoring, as Murder Beach earned zero points in the last four jams of the half, the score now 64-33.

The second half fared similarly, but with stretches of zero-point jams for Murder Beach alternating with big 7, 9, and 10 point jams between. In contrast, AA earned points in all but two jams of the second half, to consistently add points toward their score. But those passes saw 1 to 4 points instead of the double-digit passes needed to truly close up the score. Racking up the points for AA in the second half were mainly Ciri and AWOL, as the versatile Anchors’ other jammers built walls and blocked in their hard fight to keep MBM from gaining an even greater lead. Lita Floor Her, Rollin’ Rican and Kap’n Krush went for big hits and walled up to keep many MBM jams’ scoreless.

MBM’s roster knew all too well that even a 30 point spread at the half could end up in a win, since MBM did that very same thing themselves to win the 2009 championship game, and focused April 24 on not letting the Anchors inch the score too close.

In the last jam of the evening, M8T brought in four points to AWOL’s one, making the final score MBM 119 to AA 93.

The Anchors will next try to take down the Right Coast Rollers on June 12 in Asbury Park Convention Hall.