Last Saturday evening, the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls defeated Tampa Roller Derby’s travel teams at Rocky Mountain Roller Hockey in Lakewood.
Rocky Mountain’s 5280 Fight Club (WFTDA #9) took on the Tampa Tantrums (WFTDA #24) on the track where Sweet Mary Pain nabbed the first point of the night on the way to a dominating Fight Club win and Sweet Mary Pain’s own MVP jammer trophy. Points racked up quickly for Fight Club who scored multiple grand slams throughout the night. A combination of jammers quickly punching through the Tantrum’s walls while Fight Club’s walls lead by MVP blocker May Q. Pay and Triple Shot Misto effectively bridged before knocking Tantrum jammers out of bounds and recycling them maximum distance. At the half Fight Club lead Tampa 138-48.
The second half started with a Fight Club power jam and a power line up. Fight Club held the Tantrums at 53 points for 7 jams, continuing to employ the strategies which put them ahead in the first half. Sweet Mary Pain pulled in 83 points for the game leading in scoring for a 281-83 final score.
Rocky Mountain’s Contenders and Tampa’s Bruise Crew played next. Jammer Gator Dunn scored 18 points in the first jam. Contenders followed suit of that first jam, and of the first game, scoring heavy with grand slams. Contenders’ jammer rotation saw some new faces near the end of the half, which concluded with 179-25.
The second half continued with a very broad jammer rotation for Contenders with 10 different jammers. Despite the change, Bruise Crew continued to have trouble breaking through the Contenders’ defense, allowing Contenders’ jammers to dominate lead jammer position. Ivanna Hasselhaus was awarded MVP jammer for Contenders and Bones Patrol MVP blocker. The final score was 279-72.