Friday, July 20th was the season opener for the Denver Roller Dolls, with home teams the Bad Apples and Green Barrettes facing off against one another. The first season for the Dolls ended with these two teams bouting in April, with the score staying close right up until the end where the Bad Apples took the victory. Both teams proved once again that they are an even match for one another - the end of the first period saw the Apples at 32, the Barrettes 31.

The Dolls as a league appear to be full of quite a number of agile and fast skaters, and they seem to have many good jammers. The Barrettes’ Angela Death proves to be incredibly fast and difficult to block, thanks to her quick moves and her wise decisions as to which way to go while in the pack. Disco-A-Gogo was also a major point scorer for the team. On the Apples, Jersey Trouble and Rockett both seemed to give the Barrettes a run for their money as jammers. By the second period, the Apples had racked up 61 points while the Barrettes barely grabbed the lead with 64.

With so many good jammers on both teams, it seemed that the blockers had a difficult task throughout the entirety of the bout. Friction Vixxxen proved to be one of the skaters most effective at holding back the opposing team’s jammers, and with so many point scorers on the roster a number of the speedier girls had to take to blocking for some of the jams. The Barrettes were able to hold onto their lead for the rest of the third period, ending the game with the Apples at 81, Barrettes 91.

DRD’s two home teams will face off once again in September, and it will be interesting to watch such an even-matched game once again.