CQS Allstars 166 vs GDD 67

March 19th, 2011 Luck of the Brawl
CQS Allstars 166 vs Greenville Derby Dames 67
CQS Miss B-havers 68 vs GDD Bad News Babes 86

Saturday proved to be the most interesting bout of the season. Never before has Jamil Temple been as loud and rowdy as this past weekend. Fans were screaming, jumping, drinking, all at the same time!

With an tough loss, the CQS Miss B-havers skated faster and hit harder than ever in their third game of the 2011 season. The Miss B-havers suffered their third loss of the season by a narrow 68-86 margin. Without jammers Mal Pacino (out nursing a broken collarbone) and Sassy Assassin (recovering from a shoulder dislocation and muscle tear), the Miss B-havers’ blockers worked offensively to make it to the scoreboard. Beautiful Death made up for their absence, jamming harder and faster than ever scoring 42 if the total 68 points. The Bad New Babes chose a slow start off the line many times. The Miss B-havers were forced to race 10 feet out from the pivot line to split the pack and then race back to break up the wall of four Bad News Babes to allow the Miss B-havers’ jammer
a path through the defense.
The CQS Allstars came out glorious with their third straight win of the 2011 season scoring 99 more points than GDD. The final score was 166-67. CQS coach Sonny Pro Bono took this game as an opportunity to try out new strategies and to heavily play Allstars who aren’t usually seen on the track every jam. Captain Holly Hunter got very few chances to swing her hips into her GDD opponents because her teammates easily held back the GDD jammers. GDD coaches Josh and Keith had high expectations for their jammers, having Lorena Blockit jam two or more consecutive jams. GDD employed a west coast technique that helped rattle Gotham City in this year’s derby nationals. The start whistle would blow, but the Dames refused to budge from their wall five feet in front of
> the jammer line. Knowing that a skater cannot block while skating backwards without penalty, the Allstars were forced to take alternative measures to get GDD across the pivot line so the jammer whistle could blow. The Allstars either took a knee or skated forward 20 ft from GDD to force a “no pack” situation allowing the jammer whistle to blow. The most amazing moment of the night came not with a big hit or a high-scoring jam, but when in the second half GDD once again refused to budge. CQS held their ground and showed that there is a defense to slow derby, though it didn’t seem to please many when the jam was called off two minutes later without a single skater. The crowd both cheered and booed.