(CLEVELAND, OH) After being bounced to the consolation bracket of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Division 2 playoff round by Kansas City on Friday, the St. Chux Derby Chix, seeded seventh in the ten-team tourney, rebounded with a 206-135 victory over #8 Jet City Saturday afternoon at Cleveland Public Auditorium.
Photo Credit: Lipstick Lezgo
With the 71-point win, St. Chux advances to the playoff’s fifth-place game and has a rematch with #10 Brandywine set for Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central). On Friday morning, SCDC topped Brandywine by nine points in a playoff quarterfinal qualifier.
SCDC launched the game with a 21-8 power jam paced by Jedi Knight-N-Gale. Then after Jet City posted three on the next rotation, the Pack In Black’s Conner collected eight points five minutes deep into the game to push the score to 29-11.
St. Chux pushed its lead to twenty following Sugar Shock’s two-pointer scored with 14:40 left in the period to make the score 48-28.
After Jet City scored six two jams later, St. Chux went on 22-3 run over the next three rotations. A pair of power jams yielded 11 and 7 points, respectively, for Conner and Knight-N-Gale and Psychokid D Freakout finished the stretch run with a four-point pass that pushed SCDC’s lead to 70-37 with 7:10 left in the half.
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Jet City rebounded with a 10-point power jam from Ivana Hercha on the next rotation to narrow the gap to 70-47 at the 5:10 mark. Points were traded as the first period finished as St. Chux sported an 80-58 lead at intermission.
The score swelled to 89-69 after the second period’s first three rotations and then St. Chux posted a 36-4 run on the next two jams to widen the distance. A 10-4 strike from Knight-N-Gale was followed by Freakout’s 26-point tally with 23:45 left in the game that blossomed SCDC’s advantage to 125-73.
Meanwhile, the Pack In Black’s front walls, paced by Big Red, Pixie Dust-Ruction, Tara Eyes, Zombie F-bomb, 50 Shades of Pink, Whip L’Ash, Joanie Rollmoan, Slaughterhaus, Sha’Killa and Calamity Cat, kept the opponents with mid-period domination. With their stellar work, SCDC blocking caused six Jet City jammer penalties in the second half that yielded 77 points.
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St. Chux extended the score to 171-90 following Knight-N-Gale’s 23-point power jam with 12:05 remaining.
Concluding with a 17-8 power jam by Freakout, St. Chux outscored Jet City 126-77 in the second period to notch the 206-135 victory and entry into Sunday’s fifth-place game.
Knight-N-Gale paced SCDC scoring with 97 points, followed by Freakout’s 55.
Tomorrow’s game can be heard online for free at wftda.tv.
INDIVIDUAL SCORING
ST. CHUX DERBY CHIX (206): Jedi Knight-N-Gale 97, Psychokid D Freakout 55, Conner 34, Sugar Shock 11, Tara Eyes 9.
By trade, he is a six-time, regional Emmy Award-winning news videographer/editor for KTVI/KPLR-TV. By hobby, he is a writer for Arch City Media, dating back to February 2014. Emphasis is on featuring and promoting local women's sports, but will cover anything that is not reported by traditional media outlets. Also a contributor to local concert reviews.
