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Broomfield, Colorado, August 21, 2010 – Both Denver Roller Dolls all-star and JV all-star teams (The Mile High Club and Bruising Altitude, respectively) ended their home interleague seasons undefeated with commanding wins over their opponents at the 1STBANK Center on Saturday. Bruising Altitude swept Fort Collins 212-42 and the Mile High Club defeated Madison 180-63.
Bruising Altitude vs. Fort Collins Microbruisers
(C) Andrew Welyczko
The undercard bout featured Denver’s JV all-star team, Bruising Altitude, continuing their win streak over the Microbruisers of FoCo Girls Gone Derby (Fort Collins, Colorado). Bruising Altitude has been undefeated since their inception at the beginning of 2009, with recent wins over the Silicon Valley KillaBytes of San Jose, California, in June and the O-Town Derby Dames of Ogden, Utah, in May. This was the third meeting between Bruising Altitude and the Fort Collins all-star team. The last two match-ups happened in 2009, when the Fort Collins team was known as the Kung Fu Donnas, and ended with 160-89 and 156-112 wins for Bruising Altitude. The Microbruisers also played Denver’s all-star team, the Mile High Club, in April 2010 and was steamrolled 391-14.
The bout started off with a 13-3 for Fawn Stalking of Bruising Altitude over Double D Struction of the Microbruisers in a no-lead-jammer two-minute jam. However, after the initial 3 points, the Microbruisers would stay scoreless for the next eight jams while Bruising Altitude piled on 58 points. While the Fort Collins blockers made great walls and gave massive hits, they were no match for the agility and speed of the Bruising Altitude jammers. At the end of the first half, the score was 115-10 in favor of Bruising Altitude. In the second half, FoCo regrouped and more than tripled their point total from the first half. Both Bruising Altitude blockers and jammers repeatedly ended up in the penalty box, giving FoCo pack advantages and power jams.
Top scorers for Bruising Altitude: Fawn Stalking with 74 points in 6 jams, Gator Dunn with 50 points in 11 jams, Kish of Death with 36 points in 4 jams, and Paxa Punch with 29 points in 5 jams. Both Gator Dunn and Paxa Punch were January 2010 Denver recruits playing in their first bout ever.
Top scorers for FoCo: Aimee Armalite with 20 points in 6 jams, Double D Struction with 9 points in 7 jams, and Sally Terry Confinement with 8 points in 3 jams.
Mile High Club vs. Madison Dairyland Dolls
(C) Andrew Welyczko
The night’s feature bout spotlighted Denver’s Mile High Club against the Dairyland Dolls of Madison, Wisconsin. These two teams had met once before in 2008, Madison winning 159-74. Since then Denver has jumped up in both official Regional and unofficial National rankings, taking the bronze medal at the 2009 WFTDA National Championship. In 2010, Denver has put up wins over Fort Collins, Texas, Rat City, Boston, and Charm City, losing only to Philly by a narrow margin. Madison has had a very challenging 2010 season, with a 1-6 record before this game. All of their losses have been to top-ranked teams, with their only win over Houston in July.
The first jam started off evenly, with Denver’s Julie Adams getting lead jammer and Madison’s Jewels of DeNile right on her tail. Adams called for a 0-0 jam. But the second jam would set the tone for the night as Denver’s Andrea Hill scored 25-0 over Madison’s Mouse, who went to the box, along with two Madison blockers, making it a full penalty box for Madison. Gabby Begeman followed up in the next jam with a 19-0 over Sugalumps. Madison did not score until the eighth jam, with three points for Darling Nikki over two for Julie Adams. The first half ended on the strength of a 14-0 for Andrea Hill over Charlie Hustle, making the halftime score 125-19. The second half saw eight lead jammers for Madison, only one shy of Denver’s nine. Madison, however, was unable to capitalize on their lead jammers as much as they needed to. In the second half, they scored 44 points to Denver’s 55, much closer than the first half. But Denver had already run away with the score in the first half.
Top scorers for Denver: Andrea Hill with 82 points in 9 jams, Julie Adams with 27 points in 14 jams, Monica Carson with 27 points in 8 jams, and Gabby Begeman with 21 points in 2 jams.
Top scorers for Madison: Chop Suzzy with 21 points in 4 jams, Jewels of DeNile with 13 points in 4 jams, Vicious van GoGo with 12 points in 3 jams, and Darling Nikki with 8 points in 6 jams.
Posted by The Referee at 10:46AM Aug 23 2010
