PJRD Intra-league game – 02/20/2010
The season opener for the Penn Jersey Roller Derby league took place on Saturday, February 20th at their home in Mt. Laurel – the International Sports Center. The event was called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and featured a game between The Bleeding Hearts and The Killer Cupids.
The Bleeding Hearts were co-captained by Classy Chassis and Deuces Wild, while The Killer Cupids were co-captained by Lucky Luciano and Shampain. In the end, the Bleeding Hearts defeated the Killer Cupids by a score of 61 to 48. Although it doesn’t look it, the score was very close for more than half of the game and it wasn’t until a jam in the final period that saw the Bleeding Hearts score 12 big points and pull away for good.
There are many good points to this game that must be mentioned. The defense was excellent. This was a true Old School style Roller Derby game from all angles. I’ve said it before; Derby is the sum of all parts – offense, defense and strategy. This game featured all of the above.
The teams were equally staffed by veterans and rookies. The rookies were being tested to see if they could hang with the veterans and they did extremely well. They skated a hard game and Bexi Wrexi was the highest scoring rookie with 12 points.
Announcing was handled by Henry Rollins who is an ace at the mic and newcomer FoXXXy Contin who did an excellent announcing job. The league has all bases covered with Henry, Rhonda, FoXXXy, Judy Sowinski and founder Ken Sikes at the mic.
A big Welcome Home to Vidal Boom Boom who returned to the PJRD and skated in her first game in over a year. Unfortunately, she lived up to her name – Boom Boom and went down hard on her elbow. Turns out she broke off the cap of the elbow and it required surgery to repair it. Heal quickly Boom Boom. You’ll be missed out there!
High scorers were Sloppy Jo with 28 points for the Killer Cupids, Hellanor Rollsevelt with 26 point and Miss Chievous with 19 points for the winning Bleeding Hearts.
After this excellent game and with the addition of a banked track and warehouse in Philadelphia, the future looks very bright indeed for Penn Jersey Roller Derby.
Jersey Joe
