DEL MAR–The San Diego Derby Dolls premiered their brand new banked track Saturday night in impressive fashion, destroying the visiting Mitten Kittens by a final score of 193-58. SDDD fielded their banked track all-star team to face the Michigan-based all-star travel team.
While some Mitten Kittens skaters do have some banked track experience from both playing in Texas’s banked track league and from being stunt doubles in Whip It, the Mitten Kittens are typically a flat track team. This was the first time the Mitten Kittens competed as a team on the banked track, and they actually received a short lesson on banked track roller derby the day of the game from SDDD’s coach Isabelle Ringer.
SD’s Kiki DiAzz started off the slaughtering with a 4-0 SD jam against the Mitten Kitten’s Kat Von Destroya. By the end of the first quarter SD had increased their lead to 56-10. At the beginning of the second quarter it looked as though the Mitten Kittens had pulled it together and had a chance to catch up. Mitten Kitten jammers ReAnimateHer, Racer McChaseHer, and Kat figured out how to put some points on the score board and brought the score to 59-23 by the third jam of the second quarter. The Mitten Kittens weren’t able to hold on to this scoring pattern and only scored 1 one more point in the remainder of the second quarter leaving the score 111-29 at the half.
Watch post-bout video interviews with Kali Katt and Racer McChaser after the jump:
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by Chris Ello on November 28, 2009
ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands — Not too many people on this island care one way or another what happens to the Chargers this Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs. Nobody’s concerned about the possible blackout, nor whether or not the Bolts will overlook their 3-7 division rivals.
Rivers Will Keep The Chargers Pointed In The Right Direction
What’s the point spread? Who’s injured? Where’s the game? Is there a sports bar somewhere that will illegally carry the telecast? Never mind any of it. Just find yourself some air conditioning so you can deal with the 80-degree temperatures and the opressive humidity.
Meanwhile, the heat is on the Chargers, who need a win Sunday to maintain their lead in the AFC West over the Denver Broncos, who awoke from the dead to crush the New York Giants, 26-6, on Thanksgiving night. While the Bolts were no doubt enjoying turkey dinners with their families, Denver improved to 7-4.
If the Chargers turn in a turkey of a performance against the Chiefs, they’ll be 7-4 as well. But the concern level is far higher than it needs to be.
Sure Kansas City was won two straight, including a 27-24 overtime victory over the defending Super Bowl champion Steelers last Sunday. And the Chiefs all of a sudden look like a formidable foe, the direction of their season changing the moment they rid themselves of troublesome running back Larry Johnson.
But the Chargers’ path to the playoffs has dramatically changed course for the past six weeks now. Leaving a 2-3 start far behind in the rear-view mirror, San Diego has rolled to five-straight wins, including during the run 30-point blowout victories at both Kansas City and Denver.
Though it would be understandable to worry about a letdown, it’s not necessarily realistic. If the Chargers have learned anything this season, it’s that they must show up every single Sunday. Disappointing home losses to Baltimore and Denver, along with two near-losses to the hapless Oakland Raiders have driven that point home.
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