Unholy Rollers and Vaudeville Vixens win

Published April 27, 2010 at 1:41 p.m.

Unholy Rollers – 153, Brewcity Battlestars – 65

The Unholy Rollers dispatched the visiting Brewcity Battlestars 153-65 in the final interleague team bout of the 2010 Mad Rollin' Dolls season.

Scoring was low for both teams in the first 15 minutes of play, with the Unholy Rollers holding a slim 28-14 lead. The Unholy Rollers hit their stride in the second quarter and finished the half on top 65-28. The Battlestars managed to score in only three of 20 jams in the first half, with 13 points from HackSAW at the mid-point and 14 more points from Slayerah in the period’s last jam.

The Battlestars closed the gap to 21 points at 46-67. A trademark 20-0 jam from Jewels of DeNile widened the gap again. The Unholies dominated the rest of the game and held the Battlestars scoreless for a ten-minute stretch to claim the win.

Rookie Unholy skater Twisted Halo set a single-game scoring record for the Mad Rollin’ Dolls with 66 points. Jewels of DeNile topped that with all 51 of her points going unmatched by the opposing jammer. Brewcity rookie Slayerah led her team’s effort with 22 points. Her teammate Moby Nipps led all skaters in track time with 22 turns on the line.

Vaudeville Vixens 134, Quad Squad 109

Everybody but the members of the Quad Squad expected the 2009 league champion Vaudeville Vixens to dominate this bout, but the rookie-heavy Quads proved their team has come a long way this season. After 12 lead changes and two ties, the Vixens managed to pull away in the last 11 minutes, and with a sigh of relief, held on for the 134-109 win.

Both sides had plenty of fight in them to start, and the score ping-ponged for the first ten minutes. The Vixens slowly widened the gap until they held a 48-22 lead. Two jammer penalties on the Vixens' Major Kusaknocky set up the Quad Squad’s Aleta the Hon for a pair of 15-point jams and a tie game at the four-minute mark, 55-55. The Quad Squad went into halftime with a narrow 59-57 lead.

Neither team could gain an advantage early in the second half. The score was tied at 68 with 22 minutes remaining. The Vixens pack limited the damage from a jammer penalty, conceding only nine points to Thunder Kitten during a full two-minute jam, but still fell behind 72-83. The Vixens’ Sugalumps bounced back from a fall, and her pack again shut down Thunder Kitten for a 15-0 jam and the lead. Lil Miss Behavin’ struck right back with a 12-2 power jam and regained the lead, 95-89.

The Vixens tightened up their play with 12 minutes to go and closed the half with a 45-14 scoring run, 21 of those points coming from Darling Nikki. It was an emphatic finish to an otherwise close game.

The Quad Squad came together as a team in this game. They avoided the penalties that have plagued them in the past, and controlled the pack like pros when they had the power jam going their way. Fresh from their first taste of interleague play in Seattle, the Quads’ jammer trio of Thunder Kitten, Lil Miss Behavin’ and Aleta the Hon racked up 25, 33 and 51 points respectively.

For the 2009 champs, the game was a test of their mettle heading into the semi-finals and finals. Minus Juke Boxx and Mustang, all the Vixens had to improve their game. After a couple of hurtful jammer penalties, the Vixens pack came together to limit further damage. Veteran Darling Nikki stepped up to score late in the game and rookie Sugalumps reliably ground out points all bout long to finish with 43 total.

The bout was also a preview of next month’s semi-finals, when the Quads and the Vixens meet again. In the other semi-final matchup, the Unholy Rollers take a second crack at the Reservoir Dolls, to whom they narrowly lost in February.

In the much-anticipated half time exhibition bout, the plucky Bruise Brothers (The Wisconsin Guys from Madison radio station WTDY AM 1670) learned who’s boss as the Bad Habits skated and danced their way around them like speed boats amongst battleships. The Bad Habits put on a show featuring leg-whips, spin whips, shoot-the-duck passes (that’s what Mouse’s small package is called), backward jams and blindfolded jams on the way to an 83-2 final score. How the Bruise Brothers scored two, we’ll never know.

photos by Papa-RaZZi

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