There were a number of times during this bout where the Lambs only had a simple, single wall without anyone playing as a safety valve at the front of the pack or even on the outside if the Belles’ jammer was to get past their wall. Obviously the Belles were the better team that night, but I wonder how the game would’ve played out if the Lambs had put more focus on the fundamentals of pack play. Last month, the Lambs dropped their biggest game of the season, losing to the Naptown Warning Belles 117-264. I am very interested to see the Violent Lambs this Saturday night.
This team is really starting to stockpile talent at every position on the floor. It is the perfect position for her with her past jamming experience and her ability to get wide and take up a lot of real estate on the track with her long legs.
Speaking of important blockers, let’s talk about Anne Bones, who has really flourished this year as a pivot. She is constantly in the trenches either forming walls with her teammates or moving opposing players out of position so that they cannot make a play on her jammer. The same can be said of I, Caramba!, who always knows where she should be at any given time. I’ve watched this young woman skate since her first game and I am very excited for her future as she starts to hit her prime. Kitten is constantly looking for walls and tripods to insert herself into and never shies away from contact. On a team of big-name stars, Kitten Kicker has carved out a spot for herself as an incredibly important cog in the CRG blocking machine this season. Both of them also have the ability to squeeze through the smallest spaces imaginable and then immediately kick on the afterburners to rocket out of a pack. It was like watching Spider-Man jump and swing through Manhattan. Wheezy and Royal T continue to work on their finesse game as I recently saw in a video of them running and jumping on their toe stops during practice. Her strength is incredibly deceptive and she can easily gore through anyone who stands in her path. Jas Hubbard has become an unstoppable force of nature this year, as she is constantly looking for any excuse she can find to bury her shoulder into an opposing player’s sternum. I love the offensive firepower this Sheep have this year. So the odds are in their favor this Saturday night, when they take on the 75th-ranked North Star Roller Girls of Minneapolis, Minnesota at the historic Cincinnati Gardens. The Sheep are currently ranked as the 59th-best WFTDA team on the planet, which means that if WFTDA were to send playoffs invites today, the Sheep would get one to the Division 2 tournament. The Sheep ultimately lost the game 140-170, but they made the statement that this CRG team is headed in one direction: straight up the in the rankings. At the end of the first half they led the 25th-ranked WFTDA team on the planet by a score of 91-74. Going into last month’s bout against the Naptown Tornado Sirens, there were a lot of questions about how good this Black Sheep team actually was. That game for the Cincinnati Rollergirls’ Black Sheep happened on April 30, 2016. By the numbers, the other team is better on every level, and it’s been a long time since you actually gave them a real game. A game where you’re matched up against another team that, on paper, you’re not supposed to beat. In the world of sports, there’s a game every season when your team encounters a real test. With the WFTDA playoffs in their sights for the first time in three years, the Cincinnati Rollergirls are gearing up to take on Minneapolis’s North Star Roller Girls in CRG’s second-to-last home game of 2016 on Saturday, May 21 – Armed Forces Night – at the Cincinnati Gardens.
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