Sisters of No Mercy vs. Leave It to Cleavers on May 15th

The clock started to count down and skaters from both the Sisters of No Mercy and Leave it to Cleavers rolled up to the starting lines preparing for the first jam of the night. Friendly words, some dance moves and butt slaps were exchanged. A relaxed tone was set for the first period of the bout. The first few jams started out slow paced with the Sisters of No Mercy dominating the track. Ashes to Ashes (#2012) and Nyda the Dead (#999) were the key jammers of the Sisters and took the position of lead jammers most often, almost 75% of the jams. Their moves were confident and calculated and it seemed that the skaters in Leave it to Cleavers were caught off guard by this. The Cleavers rotated between three jammers, China White (#138,) Muffin Splitter (#2-4-1) and Dirty Pirate Hooker (#8008). The majority of the Cleavers‘ points came from Muffin Splitter, but in the first few jams the Cleavers were relatively unsuccessful at scoring any points. These ladies had a hard time getting around the skaters of the Sisters of No Mercy and were knocked around quite a bit. About a quarter way through the bout the Sisters held a lead of 15 points.

This was when the game started to get interesting. The Cleavers realized they needed to play a little harder and there was an obvious change of pace by their jammers. This resulted in a change of strategy by the Sisters. In the first part of the period they obtained lead jammer status and scored most of their points. In the second half the Cleavers’ jammers were right on the heels of the Sisters, after obtaining lead jammer status the Sisters began to end the jams early to prevent the Cleavers’ jammers from also scoring. These changes worked for both teams, the Sisters maintained a 12 point lead at the half while the Cleavers prevented the gap in points between the teams from widening.

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