MNRG and Sugar

GREAT MNRG bout last night. So far two NSRG girls have told me they thought the Dagger Dolls/Bombshells periods weren't very interesting, I completely don't understand it! It was a very close game the whole night, and the teams were evenly matched. I admit it adds to the excitement for me since the Dagger Dolls are my favorite team, and while I think the Bombshells skate dirty it is entertaining to watch (they are my secret second favorite). Plus, Jay has a derby crush on Marilyn Monrogue, so it's fun for me to razz him all night long about how his girlfriend can't keep herself out of the penalty box! She did a couple jams last night as a blocker, not a pivot, and that's for sure where she needs to be. When she's on her game, her ass is a POWERFUL blocking tool, but she does not seem to have a good enough handle on pack-control to be a pivot.

Garda Belts/Rockits was a lot of fun, too - the Garda Belts started out SO damn strong, and held a 7-1 lead over the Rockits for much of the first period. Unfortunately by the end of the first period they'd lost that lead, came within 3 points of the Rockits in the second half, but ended up losing in the lowest-scoring game I have ever seen: Rockits 24, Gardas 14. The Garda Belts lack of good pack strategy was definitely the deciding factor. With their strong start you could really see they would have had a chance to beat the Rockits. Unfortunately their jammers were ALWAYS getting caught up front behind Jawbreaker, and at least one other Rockit blocker - and that is the moment when their pack should have been pulling back until the Rockits were too far away from the pack to legally block. Never saw it happen, and it cost the Gardas the game, for sure (it also wouldn't have hurt to mix up their line-up, too many times Angelfire was jamming against Jawbreaker, when they should have been throwing their best, i.e. Suzie Smashbox, out there to stand a chance). Still, I think it is impressive for anyone to score with Jawbreaker blocking, so putting points on the board at all is phenomenal! And obviously with such a low-scoring game, the defense on both sides was rocking.

Today I skipped practice, for a variety of reasons: I wanted to sleep in after MNRG (although we were home really damn early from that); while my shoulder is mostly better after being sandwiched, it is not up to being hit - and half of Sunday practices are spent scrimmaging; and with fucking Daylight Savings Time I lost an hour of sleep and had NO desire to be getting up at 7:30 AM while my body still thought it was 6:30! So we did sleep in and lazed around some more - can't wait until summer, when weekend days involve more than laying on a couch. Lawnmowing (yes, I will enjoy it for at least a couple weeks), being able to skate or rollerblade on the paths by Jay's, hanging around outside. SUNSHINE.

Anyway, we had an interleague meeting/get-to-know thing this afternoon, it was pretty fun. But people always bring cookies to stuff like this, and I wish they wouldn't - rollergirls should eat healthy but I am absolutely powerless around sugar. Cookies...sooo many cookies...and nothing but sitting on my ass all damn day! Well, back to the grindstone of practice and eating well tomorrow - with a 3-hour practice tomorrow night to really jumpstart things. Or, maybe - that third hour is scrimmaging, and I should not do that full-bore just yet. No jamming, and blocking from the outside only (so I am only hitting with my left). I think this week is another open scrimmage - plus a team practice on Saturday - so I hope my arm is LOTS better by Friday.

Tomorrow I have to finish a poster for our Saint Patty's Day events - it needs to get around NOW, but I didn't get to it at all yet. NSRG IN THE MINNEAPOLIS SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE ON MONDAY! There, that was productive.