By Valerie Hurtinelli

Naptown hosted the Green Country Roller Girls of Tulsa, Okla., on April 11 in the Toyota Blue Ribbon Pavilion. This night-before-Easter bout had Blazin’ Ace on the line for Jam One, poised to score a fist-pumping 13 points to Tulsa’s zero, an opening act that had Naptown fans on their feet with their foam fingers in the air.

The first period saw similar jammer fireworks: Jane Ire slipping through the pack to score 14 points; Slammy Faye sneaking nine points to the Green Country lead jammer’s four; Fin Addict fighting through the GCRG resistance to add three points to the board before calling off the jam-sliding backwards on her toe stops. All the while, Naptown’s precision pack made the jammers’ job look easy, with Sin Lizzie, Cereal Killer, Mizz Understood, and the Twin Towers doing much of the smacking down. Even with a few hitches in their giddy up-Ace in the box and Touretta Lynn temporarily sidelined with a broken skate-Naptown had a nice lead going into the period break with the scoreboard reading 24 to 79.

Green Country made a valiant attempt to make up some ground in the second half-namely in the form of uber jammer Rosie the Wrecker, whose tireless, rapid-fire performance was nothing short of an inspiration to roller girls everywhere. But the Tulsa crew never did take control of the scoreboard. NRG, on the other hand, lit it up. Final score: 36 to 160 for a Sirens win!