Saturday saw the exciting culmination of our 2016 Home Teams season with the mighty T-Wrecks taking on the brilliant Bad Omens for one final showdown.
As you'll know if you read our game preview in their previous match up the dinosaurs took the win over the crazy crows with a commanding 50 point differential. While this was a promising start it was still all to play for going into this last home game.
In the green shirts, the T-WRECKS!
12 Killer Bee
14 Shona Mercy (c)
15 Lynsey O’Reilly
202 R2 Deck You - our Special Guest Skater from Ayrshire Roller Derby!
24 Puma Thurman
25 Phylocoraptor
3 Mad Natter
350 Devil’s Advoskate
5 Tequila SlamHer
7 Sarah McMillan
823 Cara Viola
97 Nitrojen
Bench manager: SubMarine
The 2016 TWrecks finalists!
Photo courtesy of Dave McAleavy of Boutday.com
And in the red, the Bad Omens!
03 Shorty McLightningpants
10 Sarah McGettigan
168 Janie Bones
20 Penny Pinch'er
2244 Tesla Recoil
311 Sadie O'Hades
413 Katie Toerag
55 Spin Diesel
59 Hadrian's Brawl
730 Fever
85 Stargrazer
93 Crash Test Barbie
Bench manager: Jodie
The Bad Omens in the 2016 final.
Photo courtesy of Dave McAleavy of Boutday.com.
The game began with veteran skaters Shorty McLightningpants and Sarah McMillan on the jam line. Both teams fielding strong Bruisers showed that neither was afraid to put strong skates forward in this face off. After a few short sharp tactical call offs, the Bad Omens led 58-1 in the first half. The TWrecks were not giving up so easily though, even fielding long-time Dino and usual blocker Devil's Advoskate who grabbed lead to help them pinch back some points from the claws of the crows. Before long it's BO 89 - 31 TW thanks to some lovely apex jumps from McMillan, although it still wasn't enough to fend off the mighty Omens who ended the half with a sizeable lead, BO 144 - 64 TW.
The dinos came roaring back on track with ferocious determination, combining the might of established Bruisers, experienced Maidens and even some excellent newly bout ready skaters like Killer Bee, who skated hard and turned left with the best of them on this Saturday afternoon. However the Bad Omens' will would not be broken and before long they broke the 200 point mark with a score of BO 221 - 86 TW. Ahead of the final jams the Wrecks took another blow as Shona Mercy was sent to the penalty box for the seventh and final time, fouling out of the rest of the game. Despite their hard work and strong challenges the T-Wrecks just couldn't beat the defending champs, and so another final was won by the most dastardly Home Team of all, the Bad Omens!
Final score: BO 304 - 133 TW
Awards were given out for notable performances throughout the game in tried and tested fashion:
BAD OMENS
Best Jammer: Sarah McGettigan #10
Best Blocker: Janie Bones #168
Most Valuable Player: Spin Diesel #55
T-WRECKS
Best Jammer: Puma Thurman #24
Best Blocker: Cara Viola #823
MVP: Devil's Advoskate #350
GRD would like to thank all the skaters, officials, events staff and guests who made this Home Teams season possible. We'd also like to thank our wonderful sponsors EuroHostel and 5th Blocker Skates for their support throughout this season.
If you've been inspired by the action you saw on track during Home Teams this year, why not come along and learn to skate with the Glasgow Roller Recruits? Our next intake starts on Sunday 8th January 2017 at the Arc Sports Centre in Glasgow. All the details can be found here. See you there!
Tesla Recoil and Killer Bee think you should join us at the new GRR intake in January and become the next generation of awesome skaters at GRD. See you there... OR ELSE!
Photo courtesy of Neil Mackinnon.