Crown City Rollerz

Photo credit: Kathryn Coldren

Crown City Rollerz Imperial Forces made their debut at Paint the Track Purple this past Saturday! In their first bout ever, the Forces offered excellent competition against Hartford Area Roller Derby’s Beat City Bedrockers. But heart wasn’t enough to pull out a win against the second-year team. The final score was 144-286 with Beat City coming out on top.

Forces and Bedrockers MVPs. Photo credit: Kathryn Coldren

MVPs for the first bout of the night were:

Beat City MVP Blocker: Turnpike Tallulah #X4

Beat City MVP Jammer: Mohammed I’lleat-cha #42

Forces MVP Blocker: Jane Witty #13

Forces MVP Jammer: ShaDyNasty #2

Great job, ladies!

Photo credit: Dean O'Gorman

And as the second bout of the night got underway, the Royal Pains began to fall behind. After a few jams of lead changes, the score continued to steadily climb for Hartford’s Wailers to offer up the Pains’ second loss of the season. Penalty trouble plagued both teams, with a few skaters fouling out of the game. The final score left Hartford on top at 220-302. However, both teams put a lot of heart on the track and the fans were engaged the whole time.

Wailers and Pains MVPs. Photo credit: Dean O'Gorman

MVPs for the second bout of the night were:

Wailers MVP Blocker: Sue-Nami Force #7.2

Wailers MVP Jammer: Sabatage Sabal #24

Royal Pains MVP Jammer: Helluva Mess #777

Royal Pains MVP Blocker: Baby J #918

The first double header of the season was bittersweet for two of our skaters. It was the last bout for both CCR MVP jammers of the night. The Royal Pains’ Helluva Mess, a senior at SUNY Cortland, is graduating this year and headed out into the “real” world. And Forces’ ShaDyNasty will be relocating to New York City later this month. Good luck to both of you incredible ladies! You’ll always have a home at CCR!

Photo credit: Dean O'Gorman

Photo credit: Kathryn Coldren

In addition to a crowd-pleasing event, we raised nearly $400 from ticket sales alone, to be donated to the Relay for Life!

And finally, a HUGE thanks to Hartford Area Roller Derby for being some really fun, talented, and super cool broads! We look forward to seeing you next year!

D. Soprano talks to the Cortland Standard during the cemetery sweep.

We got our hands dirty and left with our backs sore on Saturday all in an effort to help the Cortland Rural Cemetery spruce up its grounds in preparation for Memorial Day. More than 25 Crown City Rollerz met in the wee hours of the morning to get down to the dirty business at the historic Tompkins Street cemetery, which is our beneficiary for June 8th’s Night of the Rolling Dead bout.

Collected rubbish from the Cemetery Sweep Out.

We’d like to give a BIG shout out to Andrea Czimmer, a 10th-grader who met a few Rollerz during Jump Start 10, a youth conference where CCR was invited to speak about community service. CCR’s presentation mentioned the Cemetery Sweep Out as a prime example of how to get involved in the community. Well, Miss Andrea took that to heart! She showed up alone and cleaned an entire section of the cemetery before meeting up with any Rollerz! Now, THAT is awesome! Way to go Andrea! We can’t wait to see you at our next bout!

10th-grader Andrea Czimmer helps clean at Cortland Rural Cemetery.

Our next home bout is only two weeks away! And it’ll be double the derby fun! We’re debuting our long-awaited second team, the Imperial Forces, on May 4th. Be sure to come out and watch the Forces and the Royal Pains as they take on two teams from Hartford, Conn. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Cortland’s Relay for Life!

Our bout beneficiary for June is holding a Community Sweep-Out to get the Cortland Rural Cemetery ready for Memorial Day. We are proudly sponsoring this event and are asking the community to come and help clean up on April 27. Click or view the image below for more information.

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