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Columbia Quadsquad Breaks Honky Tonk Hearts, Extends Streak

by James Harley, July 10th 02:26pm

The Columbia Quadsquad roller derby team extended its amazing two-year winning streak on Saturday night at Jamil Temple with a 207-97 beatdown of the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers of Austin, Texas. The victory rates as one the Quadsquad’s finest, in that the Heartbreakers are members of the Texas Rollergirls league, which is currently ranked No. 2 among the WFTDA South Central region’s 27 leagues.
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Roller Derby players collide in Columbia

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Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2011

TEXAS SHOOTOUT

By GINA SMITH – gnsmith@thestate.com Photo by TRACEY GANTZ

Courtesy of The State Newspaper

In 2009, Eva Foussat watched her first Columbia QuadSquad roller derby bout.

By half time, the Columbia web designer was hooked and had to join up.

“I said to myself, ‘I have to do this,” said Foussat. “I didn’t know how to skate. I’d never played a sport. I wasn’t athletic, but I had to do it.”
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CQS Allstars 207 vs TXRG Honky Tonk Heartbreakers 97

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July 9th, 2011
CQS Allstars 207 vs Texas Honky Tonk Heartbreakers 97
Spawn of Skatin’ 70 vs Capitol City Vixens 54

What does it take to be WFTDA? A packed house, sold out crowd, and the best Allstar roster of skaters in the south. This past Saturday, the CQS Allstars took on the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers, one of four home teams belonging to the originators of modern flat track roller derby, the Texas Rollergirls.

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