South Bend’s Bonnie Dooms Trounce Party Crashers
May 11th, 2013
By Megan Enemies
Photos by Junior
The Circle City Derby Girls traveled north to play a doubleheader against the South Bend (Ind.) Roller Girls. In the first bout of the night, CCDG’s B-team, the Party Crashers, put up a good fight against South Bend’s Bonnie Dooms, 
but South Bend was able to capitalize on several power jams, racking up points early and coming away with a 222-73 win.
CCDG’s jammers struggled in the first nine jams against South Bend jammers HitBull, Death Rae and Poison Maivy. But after HitBull went to the penalty box on a track-cut call, CCDG’s Trudy Bauchery made three scoring passes on a power jam for 15 points. Robin Sock’em added five more points in the next jam, bringing the score to 35-25 in favor of South Bend.
Thanks to CCDG’s tough defense and smart jamming, six consecutive jams in the first half were scoreless for both teams. The Party Crashers got lead-jammer status in three consecutive jams, calling off the jam before South Bend could score. In the next three jams, even though CCDG’s jammers didn’t get lead, they were seconds behind the South Bend jammers, leaving the latter no choice but to call the jam.
CCDG had 26 penalties in the game to South Bend’s 15, with the Party Crashers serving six minutes for direction-of-gameplay penalties.
The Party Crashers were missing some go-to players for this match-up, skating with a roster of 12 instead of 14. But rookie skaters put up a great fight against South Bend. In their first season bouting for CCDG, Albee Chooup and Kneads Therapy had some impressive plays. During a power jam for South Bend, Albee Chooup forced jammer Poison Maivy out of bounds, then ran backwards, forcing the opposing jammer to go back almost half the track before reentering. Kneads Therapy delivered bone-rattling sheriff blocks to South Bend’s jammers, earning the Most Valuable Blocker award for the Party Crashers. Trudy Bauchery—who skated in the second game of the night, too—took home the Most Valuable Jammer Award for CCDG’s B-team.
Look for the Party Crashers to play aggressively as they take on the Twin City Derby Girls B-team at The Forum in Fishers, Ind., June 15.
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