CRUEL SUMMER
Saturday, June 21st, 2008 @ 7pm
The Convention Center at the World's Fair Park
Knoxville, TN
RECAP: Summer rolled into Knoxville this weekend and brought the Derby City Roller Girls from Louisville, KY along for the ride. HKRG came into this bout needing a home win in a serious kind of way, having lost their first two. The teamwork, motivation and skills were all there Saturday night as HKRG brought "Cruel" to the DCR girls.
Defensively, the HKRG couldn't be beat, shutting out the DCR girls in 19 jams; coming out of the first period 30 points ahead. Hard hitting by the likes of Tank Her A!!, Battle Ready Betty, Lady Paine, and Madame Mayhem, made scoring almost impossible for the DCR girls. A hard hit from Lady Paine took DCR Biddy the Bomber out of the bout with what might have been a bruised or cracked rib. Hope you get better Biddy!
Offensively, HKRG jammers Drop Dead Gorgeous and Goblynn ruled the bout; both jammers having at least one Grand Slam a piece. Drop Dead Gorgeous scored over 70 points in her 10 jams, becoming lead jammer in 9 of those jams. Goblynn scored over 40 points in 8 jams, having lead jammer status 4 times.
As always, the third period was the craziest. In an offensive play that you don't see too often, DDG passed the jammer panty to Val-Yum, scoring HKRG another 5 points in the process. The third period also saw Goblynn and DDG do some time blocking while allowing Battle Ready Betty and Kell's Inferno do some time jamming.
So with a final score of 141-36, HKRG brought new meaning to "Cruel Summer" for the DCR girls. If you missed this bout, you should be ashamed. It had classic HKRG hard hitting and non stop action. Don't miss the next home bout on July 26th when HKRG take on the Blue Ridge Rollergirls from Asheville, NC. |
